In 1957, when I was 12 years old, while riding in an automobile with my family, we spotted a pickup truck in a small Texas town with a sign saying "Free Foxes". The man had shot a fox and found a den of very young kits, so he was giving them away. We took one. Since 1957 was the year the Russians orbited the first artificial satellite, we named the fox "Sputnik" after the satellite and referred to him as "Sputty". He became the best pet we ever had. We fed him canned dog food. In the mornings we would leave the back yard gate open and he would disappear, wandering all over town, then returning at sundown and was let into the house. As a child I would play with the fox but his teeth were razor sharp and I would often be left with bleeding hands. Once while playing with him in the middle of the front room in our small house, my mother dropped a pan in the kitchen. The fox bounced off all four walls before landing smack in the very place he had left, in the center of the room. After I had grown up and left home, my parents obtained another pet fox. Great memories.
Wow, that’s an amazing story! That’s awesome that y’all took him in. I also live in Texas/Oklahoma and we see them pretty often in the panhandle. Thanks for sharing your story 🐾
Thanks! I've lived with wild fox families for over 50 years and can't imagine ever moving because they bring me such joy! I love watching the kits play in the meadow and hunting for the underground rodents. Right now I have a family of 5 - a red vixen and black sire and their three kits - one black and one red female and a red male. The parents are about the 4th generation of foxes I have been watching. They each have distinct personalities.
I love foxes! I have a friend who's land has litters of them every year! She even found one that has passed and cleaned the bones and sent them to me to study! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. 🐾
Yes, I live in Somerset, and yes, it's still going on. Especially around the Quantocks and Exmoor. Supposedly banned. Bs if you ask me. Just like pheasant hunting for the so say elite!😢 😢😢😢
We've got a well-established Red Fox population near my home. It's very common to hear their many vocalizations in both daytime and night time. It's fairly common to meet one in passing during the day, as well, sometimes only several yards away. As long as we don't make any sudden moves, the foxes just keep an eye on us while we all go about our business. One night, while I was standing outside looking over my day's progress on the house construction site in the light of the back door light, my two cats were out on the freshly graded soil, and my American Eskimo dog was on the back step. My peripheral vision caught a fluffy tail moving up beside me in the dim light. I thought it was my dog, until I looked back to confirm that she was still on the step. When I looked down at the "fluffy tail", I looked directly into the eyes of a Red Fox sitting less than three feet away from where I stood, looking up at me. Apparently, the fox had been focused on my cats and hadn't intended to sit down beside a human. We looked at each other for a couple seconds before the fox realized what it was looking at and left in a flash!
We have some gray foxes that live near me, and I see red foxes every now and then. A friend of mine in Austin, has them coming up to her back porch for apples that she leaves out!
Great video, watch these great animals here in the UK close up through our window 6-7 feet away and on our 5 surveillance cameras that we have dotted around the outside of the house 👍
The cacophony of divergent howls, yelps, yells and screams echoing off 12,000 ft granite walls sent my body into uncontrollable shivers. The noise itself was deep,pained , endlessly pitiable. That this pack of coyotes were skillfully throwing their collective voices in an acoustical celebration off the granite left me mesmerized in wonder. I couldn’t wrap my head around the experience, was I at the threshold of Dante’s inferno, was this the groaning of creation longing for the manifestation of the sons of God ? And all the while I was laying on the ground in my single man tent hoping they wouldn’t smell the fear .
Foxes are really interesting to observe in the wild. BUT their activities are occasionally so odd that it would take a long time to figure some of them out! Some are, or may be individual behaviors as I have noted over a few years living in a California forest. There was one I noticed that would kd follow a specific pregnant doe down the hill every night from March thru May. He was right behind her by less tha 6 feet as she would stop and graze in my yard. Occasionally, the doe would lose patience with thd invasion of her personal space. She would snort loudly and if that didn't work, she would stomp her front hooves as a final warning. Twice, I watched her use her rear legs to rather gently knock him backwards ..and then he wod get the .message ! One evening she made herself comfortable in a rather secluded area .. I watched the fox beccome comfortable under a bush about 10 feet away and both rested for about an hour. I noticed the fox left it's head a his ears were perked up a d twitching ..he heard something I glanced at the doe and my jaw dropped. She had given birth to two babies and was cleaning them. A few hours passed and the fox remained in his designated zone as the doe nudged her two babes to their feet. They were clumsy and off kilter for a while but when they steadied Mom took them back up the hill ...but the fox stayed ND cleaned up the birthing bed making sure every bit of afterbirth was devoured. He or she the urinated over the area before dashing away back up the hill following the scent..and urinating every few yards. I can only surmise he was protecting tye doe and her babies... he was never aggressive...just a pest...maybe her friend?
@@KittyGonzalez-bc8eehad a similar thing with two different Foxes in my garden in the UK several years apart and both Foxes always followed a badger around, we feed a lot of birds and animals in our garden each day, this strange occurrence stopped this summer when the badger didn't show up one night and neither did the Fox, what happened to the two of them I don't know ?
First your site taught me how wonderful coyotes are and now it’s wild foxes. Yea to Britain for an unpopular law much needed to protect these amazing animals. What’s next I wonder.
An OT verse says: Everything you need to know is exemplified in nature. Well the fox, etal. usually borrows on the South side of a hill. What this is is passive solar geothermic construction.
My husky used to do the fox pounce in the deep snow. Mind you, at a considerably lower success rate. It was still cool to see. And she did catch critters occasionally.
While they were brought in at one point, they had also already crossed into North America during previous ice ages, which we know from fossils found here. Also, while we do call gray foxes tree foxes, the part of the video you’re referring to is about foxes climbing trees, which is also not uncommon with red foxes, as you can see. Thanks for your input!
From what I can find out, American fox hunters do not try to kill any foxes. They prefer to enjoy the thrill of the hunt but allow the fox to take shelter in a den or building to end it. In the fiction novels of Rita Mae Brown about fox-hunting in Virginia, the foxes have names, get trapped and inoculated, and are fed in harsh winters.
If they make it to age three, they usually have matured enough and have enough experience to live 8-10 years or so. In captivity they can live 14+ years.
Here in Vermont, fox calls, sounding like a screaming baby, are often mistaken for fishers (aka fisher-cats, a large arboreal weasel) I grew up being told that that terrifying sound wouldn’t come from such a cute little thing like red fox.
@ Yes, and I've since learned fisher don’t say much, other than a chuff-chuff sounding grunt. Still, people tell me that they’ve heard the horrible squeal of a fisher
Frederick William Forsythe (to give him his full name, author of 'Day of the jackal') gave the most vitriolic criticism of the poor red fox! His comments were the worst I've ever read comparing the size of it's brain to be as small as that of a rat, and doubtless Forsythe (having acquired an undeserved fortune from peddling his fiction) possessed a large English farm where he delighted in shooting the unfortunate animal. It's the last time I'll ever be watching a 're-run' of that movie on the assination of De Gaule!
I have always love the look of foxes, they are so beautiful. Now I know a lot more about these gorgeous animals because of your very good video. I wish they could be domesticated and have a much longer life. Thank you. It’s wonderful to here that fox hunting in Britain is now banned. Thank you
They definitely have a unique and beautiful look. In sanctuaries, they live 14+ years! In the wild, ones that do make it to 3 years old, tend to live a little longer from being more experienced. Thanks for watching Margaret!
Having lived in my present house for 20 years, when we moved in our old lady cat would sit on the back doorstep and ignore the nightly fox that passed by. They ignored each other at a respectful distance. We used to put out scraps for them and they treated us by bringing and showing off their cubs to us. Still get the odd fox pass by even now and if scraps are around we always put them out and are gone by morning. (UK) Fox hunting has been summed up as "The unspeakable, chasing the uneatable" and "Fur coats are worn by beautiful animals and UGLY people".
I saw an all black fox a couple of years ago for the first time ever. We have lots of wild red and tan foxes around here (northern BC) but I didn't know that black foxes even existed.
Less room to den they get Mange and life is cut short,the dens need to be clean or get new dens.Year after year,they start furry then look sick and die from mange,usually around suburbs no wild areas left.There is a medincine put in food that help.
Most likely not. Cats tend to fight back; foxes are not much bigger than a cat and they typically have a more opportunistic hunting style, avoiding fights.
Great video, just a critic: when you are talking about semi retractable claw of foxes species, you show a red fox on a tree, red foxes dont have semi retractable claws, this may have people thinking that they have, since you showed a picture of them while talking about this, please dont do this next time!
Well one of these vermin killed our last fowl when I forgot to lock it up, we buried the feathers found in our yard the next dy in a plastic bag about 6 inches under ground as a memorial, 3 days later that vermin returned and dug up that plastic bag, proof that they have an incredible ability to smell scent,
The Fox that lives in my backyard , under my shed with her family out foxed a cyody ran past me and turned around and back tracked under the shed and MR CYODY WAS ,,HUH?
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In 1957, when I was 12 years old, while riding in an automobile with my family, we spotted a pickup truck in a small Texas town with a sign saying "Free Foxes". The man had shot a fox and found a den of very young kits, so he was giving them away. We took one. Since 1957 was the year the Russians orbited the first artificial satellite, we named the fox "Sputnik" after the satellite and referred to him as "Sputty". He became the best pet we ever had. We fed him canned dog food. In the mornings we would leave the back yard gate open and he would disappear, wandering all over town, then returning at sundown and was let into the house. As a child I would play with the fox but his teeth were razor sharp and I would often be left with bleeding hands. Once while playing with him in the middle of the front room in our small house, my mother dropped a pan in the kitchen. The fox bounced off all four walls before landing smack in the very place he had left, in the center of the room. After I had grown up and left home, my parents obtained another pet fox. Great memories.
Wow, that’s an amazing story! That’s awesome that y’all took him in. I also live in Texas/Oklahoma and we see them pretty often in the panhandle. Thanks for sharing your story 🐾
Thanks! I've lived with wild fox families for over 50 years and can't imagine ever moving because they bring me such joy! I love watching the kits play in the meadow and hunting for the underground rodents. Right now I have a family of 5 - a red vixen and black sire and their three kits - one black and one red female and a red male. The parents are about the 4th generation of foxes I have been watching. They each have distinct personalities.
I love foxes! I have a friend who's land has litters of them every year! She even found one that has passed and cleaned the bones and sent them to me to study! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. 🐾
Thanks for the info foxes are so beautiful
They really are! 🦊 Thanks for watching 🐾
We raised a kit fox. We also had a Siamese cat. The cat taught the fox to use the litter box. He was a joy to have.
Wow, that’s amazing! Thanks for sharing and watching 🐾
I think it's disgusting that people still hunt them. Including King Charles. Imagine the terror they endure.
Definitely not my favorite thing ! 🐾
They don't still hunt them !
So did Andrew his brother and Jimmy savile and Gary glitter and rolf Harris and schofeild all very nasty people . U can take that to the bank
Yes, I live in Somerset, and yes, it's still going on. Especially around the Quantocks and Exmoor. Supposedly banned. Bs if you ask me. Just like pheasant hunting for the so say elite!😢 😢😢😢
@@Tinnunulus Illegal in Britain for 20 years. Where do these people get their information from?
We've got a well-established Red Fox population near my home. It's very common to hear their many vocalizations in both daytime and night time. It's fairly common to meet one in passing during the day, as well, sometimes only several yards away. As long as we don't make any sudden moves, the foxes just keep an eye on us while we all go about our business. One night, while I was standing outside looking over my day's progress on the house construction site in the light of the back door light, my two cats were out on the freshly graded soil, and my American Eskimo dog was on the back step. My peripheral vision caught a fluffy tail moving up beside me in the dim light. I thought it was my dog, until I looked back to confirm that she was still on the step. When I looked down at the "fluffy tail", I looked directly into the eyes of a Red Fox sitting less than three feet away from where I stood, looking up at me. Apparently, the fox had been focused on my cats and hadn't intended to sit down beside a human. We looked at each other for a couple seconds before the fox realized what it was looking at and left in a flash!
We have some gray foxes that live near me, and I see red foxes every now and then. A friend of mine in Austin, has them coming up to her back porch for apples that she leaves out!
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Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for subscribing! 🦊 It means a lot to me
Great video, watch these great animals here in the UK close up through our window 6-7 feet away and on our 5 surveillance cameras that we have dotted around the outside of the house 👍
Thank you! They have always had a special place in my heart ❤️
this is wonderful, for me some of it is not new, but I watched every minute with joy.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🐾
That's why I love 'em- They give absolutely zero fox 🧡🦊
You know it! Thanks for watching! 🐾
Great video - thanks.
Thanks for watching Nancy! 🐾
Thanks!
You're welcome! Thank you so much for the super thanks! 🐾
The cacophony of divergent howls, yelps, yells and screams echoing off 12,000 ft granite walls sent my body into uncontrollable shivers. The noise itself was deep,pained , endlessly pitiable. That this pack of coyotes were skillfully throwing their collective voices in an acoustical celebration off the granite left me mesmerized in wonder. I couldn’t wrap my head around the experience, was I at the threshold of Dante’s inferno, was this the groaning of creation longing for the manifestation of the sons of God ? And all the while I was laying on the ground in my single man tent hoping they wouldn’t smell the fear .
Well said! Foxes and coyotes are make wild sounds! 🐾
Foxes are really interesting to observe in the wild. BUT their activities are occasionally so odd that it would take a long time to figure some of them out! Some are, or may be individual behaviors as I have noted over a few years living in a California forest. There was one I noticed that would kd follow a specific pregnant doe down the hill every night from March thru May. He was right behind her by less tha 6 feet as she would stop and graze in my yard. Occasionally, the doe would lose patience with thd invasion of her personal space. She would snort loudly and if that didn't work, she would stomp her front hooves as a final warning. Twice, I watched her use her rear legs to rather gently knock him backwards ..and then he wod get the .message ! One evening she made herself comfortable in a rather secluded area .. I watched the fox beccome comfortable under a bush about 10 feet away and both rested for about an hour. I noticed the fox left it's head a his ears were perked up a d twitching ..he heard something I glanced at the doe and my jaw dropped. She had given birth to two babies and was cleaning them. A few hours passed and the fox remained in his designated zone as the doe nudged her two babes to their feet. They were clumsy and off kilter for a while but when they steadied Mom took them back up the hill ...but the fox stayed ND cleaned up the birthing bed making sure every bit of afterbirth was devoured. He or she the urinated over the area before dashing away back up the hill following the scent..and urinating every few yards. I can only surmise he was protecting tye doe and her babies... he was never aggressive...just a pest...maybe her friend?
@@KittyGonzalez-bc8eehad a similar thing with two different Foxes in my garden in the UK several years apart and both Foxes always followed a badger around, we feed a lot of birds and animals in our garden each day, this strange occurrence stopped this summer when the badger didn't show up one night and neither did the Fox, what happened to the two of them I don't know ?
First your site taught me how wonderful coyotes are and now it’s wild foxes. Yea to Britain for an unpopular law much needed to protect these amazing animals. What’s next I wonder.
Thank you so much for watching! 🐾
An OT verse says: Everything you need to know is exemplified in nature. Well the fox, etal. usually borrows on the South side of a hill. What this is is passive solar geothermic construction.
Interesting observation!
My husky used to do the fox pounce in the deep snow. Mind you, at a considerably lower success rate. It was still cool to see. And she did catch critters occasionally.
Domestic dogs were once wild, we forget that sometimes haha 🐾 Thanks for watching!
Beautiful creature
They sure are. No animal out there quite like them.
Learned a few things. I’ve got a den close to my home, have not found it. Parents like to tease my Australian Shepherd.
Thanks for watching! Glad ya learned something 🐾
The red foxes were imported from Europe to the U. S. . The gray fox is the native fox in the U. S. . They are the one that regularly climbs trees .
While they were brought in at one point, they had also already crossed into North America during previous ice ages, which we know from fossils found here. Also, while we do call gray foxes tree foxes, the part of the video you’re referring to is about foxes climbing trees, which is also not uncommon with red foxes, as you can see. Thanks for your input!
Guess you know the British imported the Red fox. The fox hunt did not work with the American Gray fox because it climbed trees.
Thanks for adding that. Red foxes were also brought into Australia.
Or exported .
From what I can find out, American fox hunters do not try to kill any foxes. They prefer to enjoy the thrill of the hunt but allow the fox to take shelter in a den or building to end it. In the fiction novels of Rita Mae Brown about fox-hunting in Virginia, the foxes have names, get trapped and inoculated, and are fed in harsh winters.
I’ve heard of them being that way here. Thanks for the information and for watching!
I do not know where you live, but that is not true in many states in the US.
Fascinating. So in many ways, a fox is halfway between a dog and a cat.
It sure seems that way! But they are also unique in their own ways which I love. 🐾
I said the same!! They are like CatDogs
I once thought foxes were feline.
Fox are the species they can interbreed with. only the dog family.
I would think they would live longer with that many skills.
If they make it to age three, they usually have matured enough and have enough experience to live 8-10 years or so. In captivity they can live 14+ years.
Fox memories from myrtle beach!❤❤❤❤
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I love everything 🦊
Same here! 🐾
Here in Vermont, fox calls, sounding like a screaming baby, are often mistaken for fishers (aka fisher-cats, a large arboreal weasel) I grew up being told that that terrifying sound wouldn’t come from such a cute little thing like red fox.
That is interesting! They have a wide vocal range. 🐾
@ Yes, and I've since learned fisher don’t say much, other than a chuff-chuff sounding grunt. Still, people tell me that they’ve heard the horrible squeal of a fisher
I have heard them in South Jersey 2 females fighting sounds like a woman being murdered!
Frederick William Forsythe (to give him his full name, author of 'Day of the jackal') gave the most vitriolic criticism of the poor red fox! His comments were the worst I've ever read comparing the size of it's brain to be as small as that of a rat, and doubtless Forsythe (having acquired an undeserved fortune from peddling his fiction) possessed a large English farm where he delighted in shooting the unfortunate animal. It's the last time I'll ever be watching a 're-run' of that movie on the assination of De Gaule!
Killing for sport or fun is something I will never understand. Thank you for your thoughtful comment and for watching!
@@assortedanimalsonline We must thank you for this wonderful documentary, it told us facts about old Reynard that we never knew!
I have always love the look of foxes, they are so beautiful.
Now I know a lot more about these gorgeous animals because of your very good video.
I wish they could be domesticated and have a much longer life.
Thank you. It’s wonderful to here that fox hunting in Britain is now banned. Thank you
They definitely have a unique and beautiful look. In sanctuaries, they live 14+ years! In the wild, ones that do make it to 3 years old, tend to live a little longer from being more experienced. Thanks for watching Margaret!
Having lived in my present house for 20 years, when we moved in our old lady cat would sit on the back doorstep and ignore the nightly fox that passed by. They ignored each other at a respectful distance. We used to put out scraps for them and they treated us by bringing and showing off their cubs to us. Still get the odd fox pass by even now and if scraps are around we always put them out and are gone by morning. (UK) Fox hunting has been summed up as "The unspeakable, chasing the uneatable" and "Fur coats are worn by beautiful animals and UGLY people".
Sounds like you have a good relationship with your house pets and nature's house guests!
I don't suppose you keep free range chickens.
I have seen a albino fox a couple of years ago
That would be a sight to see!
I saw an all black fox a couple of years ago for the first time ever. We have lots of wild red and tan foxes around here (northern BC) but I didn't know that black foxes even existed.
Foxes are like CatDogs
Trueeeee
Yes thank you, we think alot alike apparently. Whole time watching this im thinking catdog, scrolled through comments and see it. Agreed my friend
Very intrresting. However , you missed the Caribbean Fox , endemic to Panama , in Eastern Central America
Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out! 🐾
foxes R kool🦊
You know it!
Less room to den they get Mange and life is cut short,the dens need to be clean or get new dens.Year after year,they start furry then look sick and die from mange,usually around suburbs no wild areas left.There is a medincine put in food that help.
I see that a lot with the foxes where I live.
If a town had a severe stay cat problem, would bringing in foxes help combat that problem
Most likely not. Cats tend to fight back; foxes are not much bigger than a cat and they typically have a more opportunistic hunting style, avoiding fights.
mice n rabbits see heat like a snake? 🍻
Great video, just a critic: when you are talking about semi retractable claw of foxes species, you show a red fox on a tree, red foxes dont have semi retractable claws, this may have people thinking that they have, since you showed a picture of them while talking about this, please dont do this next time!
Thank you for the critique, I’m always trying to improve my videos and research.
@assortedanimalsonline +1 subscribe btw ^-^
Well one of these vermin killed our last fowl when I forgot to lock it up, we buried the feathers found in our yard the next dy in a plastic bag about 6 inches under ground as a memorial, 3 days later that vermin returned and dug up that plastic bag, proof that they have an incredible ability to smell scent,
Sorry to hear that. They are predators so livestock predation can definitely be an issue! Thanks for watching 🐾
Coyotes eat them. Dammit.
The circle of life.
Fix the
audio level. Do you even listen to it after you make the video?
Thanks for your feedback
The Fox that lives in my backyard , under my shed with her family out foxed a cyody ran past me and turned around and back tracked under the shed and MR CYODY WAS ,,HUH?
They are both smart! 🐾
@@assortedanimalsonline OH yes 👍⚡
Cubs ???
Baby foxes are called kits!
Foxes are mediations between cats and dogs.
I think you are right! They take on attributes from both.
please get a better Ai voice
Thanks for your feedback.
Fox memories from myrtle beach!❤❤❤❤
Awesome!