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

Baby red foxes are everywhere and face it, you have been tempted to pick one up, tame it and keep it! But if you do, will it become that cute puppy you thin you can make it? If you bottle raise it and get it used to humans, will it sit in a basket, get walked and act the same as a dog? Also will a wild red fox cub be the same as a domesticated fox pet?
Today we tell you everything you need to know if you stumble upon an abandoned baby red fox, if its possible to raise and keep it or if you should drop it into your local wildlife rehabilitation centre.

Presented by Anneka Svenska

Featuring Trevor Williams and Mandy Eccleston of The Fox Project

Filmed by Ellen Hope Cobb and Dominic Houghton

Edited by Ellen Hope Cobb

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[fluxster]

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 🥰

[josephteifer]

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.

[ralphmiller]

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

[InimitaPaul]

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.

[meestermeesterhastings.]

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...

[welcomeization]

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.

[Homobikerus]

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.

[aevans-jlym]

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.

[BrokenCurtain]

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

[-Mustang]

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.

[irenahanlon]

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.

[asafusubov]

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.

[violettamajewska]

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

[honeyblunt]

The little Foxxo is making the 🥺 face!

[almac]

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

[iditdetectioninprogress]

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.

[Titaniumparts]

Like many on this thread I too have an ongoing relationship with an urban fox here in Bristol. He comes to visit for snacks and now trusts me to be close to him. But even back before I began putting out food he'd visit, simply out of curiosity. Sometimes he'll just hang out with me in the garden. I feel that he recognises a friendly human, but I hope he knows we aren't all like that; my hunch is he's smart enough to know the difference. Anyway, it's a tricky one, trying to preserve wildness when a wild creature has decided to come to you! There's something going on though; I think some urban foxes are sort of semi-domesticating themselves through building selective relationships with people. And I agree, never consider one as a pet, if for no other reason than their scent marking - it really stinks and trying to wash it away makes it even worse.

[sambhavanshivan]

And they say that foxes are clever and cunning how adorable 🦊🦊🦊

[sandybarrie]

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

[jamesmoxley]

If she's the wild fix, I'd do some pettin. Try to tame that thang. Cutie