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Anonymous
Does /an/ know anything about keeping the Red Fox as a domestic pet?

I've been doing a lot of reading on it, it's something that's been kind of a dream of mine for a few years. I'm just wondering how feasible it really is though. They're by far my favorite animal, I think they're beautiful and I've heard they're basically the same as having a house cat when trained properly.

Pic related, it's Vulpes Vulpes Schrencki, the Japanese cousin of our Red Foxes
>> Anonymous
in before that picture of the fox standing in the torn up room

also, NO, bad furfag.
>> Anonymous
>>337876
Umm, I actually fucking hate furries soooo...

Please halp :P
>> Anonymous
Nobody has any real advice for me?
>> Anonymous
I hear they kind of smell. Their personalities are also kind of random, they could be the best pet ever or the worst pet ever.
>> Anonymous
>>337901
Is there anything you can do about the smell? I've heard that too and been told that their scent glands can be removed but that it can seriously affect their behavior :(
>> Anonymous
They're very musky, like skunks. Also they love to dig. A lot. I worked at a zoo and their cage had to have wire as the base,then tons of dirt atop it. Every week we had to fill in all their holes, which they would make again...
>> Anonymous
Try a tamed silver fox if you can get one out of Russia.
>> Anonymous
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Ah, yes, a pet fox thread. Yiff yiff much?
>> Anonymous
>>337901

Nope, worst pet. They're territorial, stink, hyperactive and piss everywhere. They aren't bred for domestic captivity.

Try a fennec. Even then, they need a lot of attention because they're really hyper and can scream like banshees.
>> Anonymous
illegal, immoral, and retarded. Get a Shiba Inu, you ridiculous fuck.
>> Anonymous
>>337924
You can't. They refuse to sell them abroads. Though I wish they did, because that would finally put a stop to this very same thread appearing once a week on /an/.
>> Anonymous
I have a pet fox myself. Cute lil' fella :} I raised him from since he was a cub and he's as tame as a house cat. And he doesn't smell as bad as most people claim, he smells just like any other dog.
>> Anonymous
Its easy, just learn it to do a barrel roll (Z or R twice) after that it's cruise control
>> Anonymous
I don't remember when or where, but I read that if a fox is domesticated from a young age, the musk gland is mostly inactive and it gains other dog-like traits.
>> Anonymous
>>338110
No, no no. See, domestication is something that happens with selective breeding to produce tameness. What you do with a single individual is called taming. Domestication of the silver fox got rid of the fox smell as genetic side effect. Taming a wild fox will not change its genetics.
>> Anonymous
>>338127

awesome terminologyfag trolling there, dude.
>> Anonymous
Actually, foxes raised in captivity begin to display very different traits from wild foxes-- in a generation or two, they tend to acquire floppy ears and curly tails. The theory is that low levels of adrenaline and so on during gestation and growth may activate or de-activate certain genes, and it occurs in other canines as well. Wacky stuff.
>> Anonymous
Yes, its illigal
>> Anonymous
>>338212
You are trolling, right? Please tell me he's trolling. Nobody can possibly be that dumb and still able to write complete sentences.