Those eyes! In the movie, he’d be played by Paul Newman!

This fox is toooo cute!

FOXES are the bomb diggity.
love them
worship them
preserve them

HEE!! I just made a sound that dogs five counties away could hear! I just LOVE foxes! So smart, so full of mischief, so GORGEOUS…

We have at least one mated pair of gray foxes that patrol our neighborhood with such regularity, you could almost set your watch by them. I get off my shift at work at 11 p.m, and it takes 30 minutes to get home. If we leave out immediately, it’s a 99% guarantee that I’ll see one of them trotting across same spot in the road, right as we pull into the entrance to our neighborhood.

Even better, their “patrol” crosses through our yard. There’s even a well-defined path worn into the dirt! They tend to pass by around 9 to 10 in the evening. There have been cases where my son and I were roasting marshmallows at our fire pit and had one of them casually lope by less than 10 feet away from us!

–TwoDragons

you must release him into the forest

OMG! so cute!

Cute little fox! And like so many people said above, I’d love to own one.

A friend of mine was driving down a two-lane road one night – a road near a state highway, no less – when a red fox walked right out in front of him.

He managed to stop, then sat for a second, stunned. Then he saw the little kits, about four or five of them, he said, cross the road. Then mama carried on after them and left the road.

Risky, to say the least, but I’ve heard of foxes trying similar behavior in the past. This is down in Georgia, by the way.

*POIT*

MEW, anner – About the tameness and floppiness connection. Killer whales (orcas) in captivity (Sea World, etc.) do the same thing. The dorsal fin flops over, and never goes back up. But in the wild, the dorsal fin is upright all the time.
It is interesting.

The silver fox domestication project in Russia was started so that fur farming wouldn’t be as hazardous. They did get the tameness they wanted- but it came along with white blazes, dropped ears, curly tails, etc., which made the animals less standardized in coat and thus unsellable as furs. Apparently, the experiment is now being continued with fox pets in mind.
Based on this experiement, some scientists speculate that the domestication of the dog probably took a lot less time than was previously hypothesized..