SO YOU WANT A WILD PET FOX? - Should you tame a Red Fox puppy?

I had a wild fox that would come around once a week or so for a little over a year I came to call "Fraya". She was very sweet. She would take food from my hand and occasionally just followed my dog and I around just to stick her nose in our business. Didn't care to be touched but I got in a nose-boop once in a while. Kept looking forward to seeing some cubs but on a walk one day after not seeing her for a while, my dog found her passed away under a bush seemingly from old age. Miss you darling, rest in peace 🥰

This was a great educational video. Teaching people that the most humane thing to do for a fox is to keep it wild is a good lesson.

People really need to know the difference between "tamed" and "domesticated".

I had a wild urban fox friend named Buddy at work for years, we were great friends. He turned the entire site into his playground and even introduced me to his pups. We used to have great fun, I chased him around to make sure he wouldn’t trust humans and he’d do patrols with me. There’s a video of him introducing me to his son on my channel if you want to see Buddy.

I have a red Fox born this year about a month ago she visits me and I feed her by hand and she comes in the kitchen, I love the company but she is wild and I am 65, the mother Fox visits the Garden and she sits back away while I feed the little one I leave food for the rest of the family, she will stay wild because that's the right way I'm just giving them a small hand of friendship and it's been fun...

It would depend upon the individual Fox's demeanor. Some, no, take them to a wildlife rescue but others, absolutely yes. Talk about entertaining.

Check out Finnegan Fox. He is the best pet fox.❤

Better to have them as visitors to your garden only - they remain wild but you can still form a bond with them if you leave out a few nibbles.

Those eyes are incredible..

There was a huge evolutionary experiment started by Dmitry Belyaev in Siberia back in the 1960s. If I'm not mistaked it's still ongoing. The idea was to imitate the natural selection but not with some rather primitive species like flies or bacterias but with foxes. And effectively to turn them into tame dogs. With quite some success.

There's a fox farm in Russia where they breed domestic tame foxes for enthusiasts. Even some of their physical features get to change after certain generation such as shape of snout and tail.

What a beautiful creature!!! And these foxes are also very beautiful! ❤❤❤

l found a super friendly beautiful young fox sleeping in my town Center. For its safety, I took it home but its sent smells were unbelievably awful. So l decided to ring a famous animal sanctuary to come & collect it. They said it had probably been hit in the head by a car and that's why it did not fear humans at all. However, a couple of weeks later l enquired how my fox was doing and they said it must have been raised by humans as it was the tamest fox they ever had and therefore it could never be released in the wild. Honestly, it was as gentle as a kitten and it's fur in perfect condition & would cutely curl up and sleep throughout the day. I loved that fox & would have kept him as a pet but the smell he made was unbelievably strong and would stink up my entire 6-bedroom house.

I believe that if you truly love animals, allow them to remain wild. Return rehabilitated animals to the wild whenever possible. They deserve to live their lives with dignity and respect. That also means respecting the things that define them.

Thank you for educating people on the Facts about finding, taming, rehabbing, Boot Camp, Release. People must forget their selfish wants and needs so that the Life and Survival of all Foxes is safe and secure.

The little Foxxo is making the 🥺 face!

My mate Ron found a baby fox with his head stuck in the hub of a spare car wheel we tried to pull the cubs head through putting the ears down as we we told by a local rescue wildlife centre that I phoned I also phoned the fire brigade and RSPCA who took all my details and said someone will come there this was 10 o'clock the cubs head would not pull through Ron had to leave for an appointment I stabilized the wheel and stayed nearby to keep an eye on the cub all the way through this the mother fox was 10 feet away and when I backed off she went on and comforted her cub there are 3 other cubs in this group we had seen them the last few weeks around Ron's land so she went from time to time I gave the cub some water and tried again to pull the cubs head through no chance I kept going back because if mum wasn't there it was calling out getting more and more distressed when I went over it seemed to calm down when Ron returned we decided to take action as it was about 12 o'clock and the cub hadn t eaten by this time the cub had calmed down it must have been knackedwe placed a wet towel over the cub with me holding the cub still with mum watching a couple of feet away I had phoned the wildlife centre up and they had tried to hurry up the RSPCA anyway I covered the cub and Ron began to cut the steel wheel with a small grinder the sparks were hitting my arm at the time not hurting as getting the cub free was the only thing on my mind after after about 20 minutes stopping regularly to cool the wheel down with cold wateri could feel the metal as I had put my other hand under the cub and was holding the cubs neck of of the metal with my fingers after cutting a piece of the wheel free I pulled the cub through took the towel off the cub sprung to life and ran to mum both running across the field behind a shed we have seen the fox from time to time since with all 4 cubs and they looked great this had happened a few weeks ago I phoned the wildlife centre up who were great and they said they would contact the RSPCA to tell them the Real reason I want to put this out there is Ron who knew what to do he went for a couple of hours to have a scan to see the result from the course of Radio therapy as he has prostate cancer his main concern was the cub what this man does for wildlife is phenomenal and always puts others before himself.

during the great depression, mum had a pet fox in Sydney, and it would follow her to school, and wait and folow her home.

Would never set out for lone purpose of keeping a wild fox. However, if I were to come upon an orphaned baby fox or a disabled adult in need of medical care, I’d consider the task only if I had a more rural property with room. Wild animals are high maintenance and better left in the wild.

No, Foxes have dog hardware, programmed with cat software! Yes they're tame of sorts, when it comes to food and not running off, but they're never going to make it as indoor pets, and really need some land to give them a decent living set up.