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But the effort into training these animals never really paid off for anything other than novelty. Finicky breeding habits (such as the cheetahs and vicunas), Viciousness (such as bears (raised to a certain age by the Ainu), and zebras (which injure more zookeepers each year than any other animal)), Skittishness around humans (Antelopes, for example), Social structure, mentioned above, which is where foxes run into the problem. Foxes, like cheetahs, seem like good hunters, they fit the same niche as terriers, basically hunting small animals (varmints). However, they lack social structure like wolves, making taming to a degree possible, but not domestication as we know it. A fox will never curl up at your feet, because most solitary animals tend to dislike eachother, unless it is mating season. Also solitary animals don't like sharing territory. They will mark and defend territory against all intruders. Also harming the chances of domestication is an ingrained and strong fear of man. Many tasty animals, like chickens, have been domesticated, and the fox saw this as an easy meal. However, man did not desire his food source stolen by interlopers and so men have hunted foxes, and foxes have evolved in general to fear people. And then there's the sport of fox hunting. Foxes are also naturally skittish to a degree. That's two strikes, and in general it only takes one to render an animal not domesticable.
Also foxes (and raccoons) can have baylisascarisis infections, and these roundworms don't go for the gut like most parasitic worms (although when they do, in worst case scenarios, they can cause intestinal blockage, or worse, rupture, which is fatal), but they go for the brain, and kill. It's because the worm contacts you, which is an incorrect host. And its behaviors drive it to your brain, somehow.
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