“I’m a Mox. Half-man, half-fox, I’m my own best friend.”
The Festrunk brothers want to know more.
Shouldn’t be a shocker: foxes are easier to tame than most wild animals. I had a bunch of pet foxes at the naval gunfire range off San Diego. Would feed them mess hall baloney by hand while we watched the ships fire.
I have had fox come into the yard and want to play like a dog. Having said that folks should be aware that fox can carry rabies. The arctic foxes on the north slope can get absolutely crazy when rabid.
The Senator’s Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson kept one as a pet, until a neighbor (accidentally) shot it.
There is credibility to that speculation; keeping foxes as pets. Looking back, there is a famous painting showing a woman cuddling an ermine, sometimes called a ferret.
See Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine” painted about 1489.
Cecilla Gallerani tenderly holds her pet.
Some say this work is ‘better than’ Da Vinci’s later work called The Mona Lisa. Both show elegant, though unreadable young women.