The Domestic Fox…
– – I always try to advise people that foxes make lousy pets; we sleep in too late, eat entirely too much junk food, and lounge around in our underwear, scratching. Besides that, foxes are wild animals, as anyone who has seen us at conventions can testify!
That having been said, however, there have been a few rare cases when people have successfully made pets of foxes, although we would prefer to think that we have made pets of the humans; you won’t catch me cleaning up after them, no sir-ee-bob! As a case in point let me introduce you to Miss Snooks, a comely vixen in East Sussex, England who was taken in seven years ago as an abandoned cub by a couple. She lives in her own one bedroom flat above the couple’s pet shop,
Reared by hand and used to people, Miss Snooks dozes on a sofa, plays hide-and-seek in a den of blankets, goes for evening walks, and enjoys her favorite meals of roast chicken cooked in honey. Her custodians describe Miss Snooks as beautiful and very affectionate…but again, her case is an unusual one and a violation of the natural order.
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February 24, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Perhaps. But, at least she’ll never have to worry about being chased by a bunch of “tally-ho’s.”
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February 24, 2011 at 10:04 pm
What did Oscar Wilde say?–Fox hunting was “…the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible?”
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