Posted on 02/05/2005 8:36:18 PM PST by T-Bird45
I had a pet fox when I was a child, and I can testify that they make the most delightful and intelligent pets in the world, combining all of the best features of a cat and a dog. They are brilliantly intelligent, funny, resourceful, amazing. However, you cannot really domesticate one who has grown to adulthood in the wild; you cannot housebreak them; you cannot trust them not to run away; and they are not legal as pets in most states so you can't get veterinary care for them.
In a fox, the incubation period is between 10 days and 15 months.
A pretty big spread, no question. My understanding is that it is pretty much the same no matter the gender....but am not exactly sure.
There are places that actually breed fox-so it would be the safest bet.
Too bad they can't hunt those foxes
Thanks for posting the information.
Funny pic, I will paste for my 11 year old daughter. Thanks!
Independent he may be, But Runt is a strangely sedate and friendly cat. He has this odd habit of rolling over onto his back if a member of the family merely acknowledges his existence. It is behavior that in a dog I would read as submissive. But I have never seen another cat do it--at least not as compulsively as Runt does it.
There are so many cats running wild here that all I can say is send them here!
I have had almost every pet known to man at some point in my life except a cat. I like them just fine, I've just never had one.
Tally ho! Bring back the fox hunts!
Hmmm, foxes, well I guess the "Three S's" apply, "Shoot, Shovel & Shut-up" would work. Then again firearms are largely banned in the UK so that might not work unless you "roll your own" or use some other method.
Seriously? Bring back fox hunting. Morons.
It's such a simple ( dare I say elegant? ) solution, you would think it would have occurred to someone...
it's too simple.
"There are no plans to start a cull of urban foxes"
Now there's a plan.
*ungh*
The fox are there probably not due to human poplation growth but due to fox population growth.
There's likely an overpopulation of them.
Oh, I do so love over-educated blithering idiots like this guy:
'' Stephen Harris, a professor of environmental science at Bristol University, said, however, that increasing fox attacks on domestic cats was an "urban myth". ''
He'd probably tell me here in NY that there are no coyote here, and that the mountain lion seen slinking around my area is a myth.
Bring on the foxes!
A friend has a leg injury that keeps him awake a lot. To pass the time he watches the activity of foxes feeding under his bird feeders in a apple tree in his front yard late at night. Thursday night he had four Foxes eating. He lives about a mile east of Eureka in a lightly developed area. I have seen one or two around our home here in town. Last summer a Mountain Lion was seen about 300 yards across the gulch from us so we no longer have as many stray cats killing Quail and song birds here in this area.
Heck, here in Michigan we have coyote problems.
The place i just moved out of was sheep country, and the coyotes were so bold...
they'd come right up to the house...
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