Pet fox?
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Yes most require a special permit. Depends on where you live.
Foxes are sexually mature at 9 months and then they scent mark their territory - repeatedly and often. Really bad smells.
My uncle does, though he lives in the mountains and isn’t very social with his fox, named Bear. He has a huge outside aviary-style enclosure as well as indoor, though everytime I go to his cabin he always puts Bear away for fear of aggression, I assume. Definitely require a special permit and license here. The fox he has he rescued from birth and was raised with him as Bears ‘mom’. 100% a MASSIVE commitment.
This will probably come off as ranty, but I genuinely don’t understand why one would want a fox as pet. Is this not what we have bred dogs for over the last few thousand years? So that we can have canine companions that aren’t wild animals. Seems to me like they would make horrible pets.
That’s just my two cents. Unless you were running some sort of animal sanctuary, taking in rescues that have been declared non-releasable.
That’s just my two cents. Unless you were running some sort of animal sanctuary, taking in rescues that have been declared non-releasable.
People have bred "tamed" "domestic" foxes, but this as mentioned, does not negate the fact that they are essentially giant ferrets mixed with cats, as they have an extremely high prey drive, are very active, and mark their scent on everything.
On the dog note, might I interest you in either a pomsky:
corgi with a tail:
or husky dachshund mix:
I know in Mississippi, there are no laws against owning Vulpus; only Canids.
Also, as far as the smell, your best bet is with a Fennec Fox. They're a desert animal so I assume they evolved to disguise themselves the best in their environment. There's a few reputable breeders here in the States that have generations of hand raised Fennecs. From what I've seen, they're not exactly domesticated BUT they're certainly not wild.
Also, as far as the smell, your best bet is with a Fennec Fox. They're a desert animal so I assume they evolved to disguise themselves the best in their environment. There's a few reputable breeders here in the States that have generations of hand raised Fennecs. From what I've seen, they're not exactly domesticated BUT they're certainly not wild.
Why? Because it's in our blood. Humans, for millennia, have tamed the wild and turned nothing into something. We turned wolves into dogs and Felis silvestris lybica into housecats.
I, for one, am very appreciative of the Silver Fox Program in Russia that showed that domestication is completely possible in such a short span of generations.
