If I had such a pet… it would have been picked up the moment I noticed a cat was trying to sneak up on it. Sorry, my pet’s health and well being trumps any potential ‘cute’ that I would like to post on youtube. Cats, no matter how cute or fluffy, can cause serious damage.

Not cute. Just sad for the pet and its careless owner.

The Fennec fox is adorable, and the cat is hilarious, but the end made me kind of upset. i HATE seeing animals yanked around by the neck…especially just for behaving like animals.

I live in England and here the red foxes kill and eat kitties who go wondering around at night and are not careful…

Interesting clip – even more interesting reactions it got.

I had a look at the next video in the fennec fox on the beach with a curious cat series and it shows the foxes (there are two actually) startled by the sound of a helicopter.
I think that perphaps they are not well-suited to the noisy environments of developed human lanscapes. Their ears are extremely sensitive and designed to detect bugs in the sand in an otherwise silent landscape. Obviously they are well looked after and all that, but it doesn’t make sense to me that an animal designed for a specific habitat can be comfortable just anywhere. Any hoo, back to kittehs

With all the dry-docked boats, this looks like extra footage from The Cell.

Adorable, except for the fact that only National Geographic-type
documentary-makers have the obligation to NOT intervene when animals are interacting with each other. Since this is not The March of the Penguins, someone should have stepped in before the cat bopped the fox.

Kitteh is just needing a closer sniff. You could see him backing up for a quiet exit. Not until little fox turned around did he feel the need to puff up. Funny.

makes me sad too… the fox looks really unhappy:(

Let me see if I can suggest this as a reasonable option: Nuff only when you have strong evidence. We can’t presume guilt (i.e. animal mistreatment) based on conditions that may or may not exist outside the immediate context of what we’re seeing.

[Might I add, though, that this is Cute Overload, not Court Overload... - Ed.]

This is the weirdest thing ive ever seen.

[What, the video, or the comments about the video? - Ed.]
[...either way, my sympathies - Ed.]

WOW. There is NO abuse going on here. The owner yanked the leash for SAFETY purposes–so that neither the fennec nor the cat would get hurt, if they started fighting or something. And as said a million times above me, the fennec fox is bred to be a pet. Would you take your cat and throw her out into the Sahara just because she might have relatives that live there? No, because she was bred to be a PET. Don’t tell Meg what she can and can’t do. It’s her website. IF you don’t like it, don’t look. But if you looked into it at all, that owner loves her fennecs and they seem quite happy. So if you want to complain about abuse why dont you complain about something that really matters?? And, by the way, just because someone else owns a fennec doesn’t mean you have to. WOW.