Foxes are smelly and eat the grapes. Yet they make me squee with glee every time I see them.
I went for an evening walk the other day and saw over a half dozen. They like to come out and play in the street. You can always tell you’re nearing a den because of the musky territory scent they leave everywhere they go. If you hang out in the smelly area, the foxes will eventually make a show. Saw one the other day near the edge of my garden with what looked like a crow in its jaws.
A few weeks ago, the little buggers went hunting for a mole under my thyme beds and dug up buckets of dirt. They also uprooted a newly planted azalea, neat as you please. Don’t know if they got the mole.
As irritating as they can be, I never tire of their antics.
Here’s a cute Youtube video of foxes on a trampoline.
Your post got me wondering, so I did some quick checking. Turns out there are a lot of people now trying to keep foxes as pets! Strikes me that they might be very affectionate, but it would be sort of like the mini version of keeping a wolf or a tiger- not such a great idea.
Here’s a blog run by a woman who’s written a book on the subject. She advocates EXTREME caution in taking a fox as a pet…
http://www.thepetfox.net/
Foxes are the most gorgeous creatures, but they’re dangerous.
Russian scientists have isolated a gene that makes foxes as tame as a dog. Read about it here.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=mans-new-best-friend-a-forgotten-ru-2010-09-02
There was a documentary on this lady (well, her and her family) who had a fox as a pet I once saw. I think she was British. The fox was very affectionate, but the whole documentary was just a one huge PSA on why you shouldn’t be crazy and take foxes as pets. The fox couldn’t be left to wander around the house on his own so he was kept in his own room when the family was away. He had completely destroyed the wood floors with his long nails and the walls were looking mighty nasty too. The smell was so powerfull that you could smell it from outside the house. And the lady went on about how you had to be pretty carefull when playing with the fox because his teeth were very sharp and he wouldn’t “play nice” like cats and dogs do when they’re sort of being carefull not to bite furless family members hard. She mentioned several times how this was still basically a wild animal.
And all I could think of was “Then why the hell are you keeping him locked indoors as a pet, you crazy person?!”
Same with monkeys.
If you love it and it’s OMGCUTESQUEEEE, then set it free.
I love myself enough to not get eaten by them, so I leave them outside where they belong.
BTW, Peter David came out here for a visit once, and the foxes like to hang about our well house. They’d left their smelly calling card. Peter was horrified. Not everything smells nice in the country.
Something ate one of the feral cats the other day and dumped it right next to my garden. Delightful.
“Something ate one of the feral cats the other day and dumped it right next to my garden. Delightful.”
Has anyone seen Rob Granito recently?
Snerk…
Foxes!
Oh that type of foxes. Yeah, they are cute too.