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It is a, ah, "distinct" odeur.
When I visited a wolf sanctuary they had to give a little talk about "Okay, if you start to smell something, that's not the wolves and it's not someone in your group, it's our foxes over in the west paddock, if you're sensitive to odors you may want to depart a little early before we go see them at the end."
They weren't kidding. Pungent. But I'd say worth it to see them up close. For a short period.
I purchased fox urine off Amazon, thinking it would deter raccoons from my yard. The sealed bottle was in about 10 plastic bags and it still smelled from inside the box. Did not deter raccoons
Dude. You're a predator. The scariest one to most. Piss on it yourself.
Worked for keeping deer away from my weed plants back in the day, at least.
These are city raccoons, fat off pet food left outside and raiding garbage cans, they are HUGE like 40lbs and NOT afraid of me at all. I will try to pee on them tonight.
I had some raccoons in my yard awhile back, when we had a hot tub (full, but only set to keep from freezing). Around midnight I woke up to splashing and weird noises out back. Turning on a light and peaking out the window they'd pushed the cover half off, and there were about six sets of eyes I could see in the tub, young raccoons. There was a big raccoon sitting on the edge of the deck right beside, probably the mom.
I figured I'd go scare them away, grabbed a broom and opened the door. The big one didn't care and the others just watched her. I took a step out the door and she just looked at me, like daring me to try something...after thinking about what to do for a minute I took the best option - I went back in and turned the lights off and went back to bed. They splashed around a little while more then headed off.
she just looked at me, like daring me to try something...
Sums up my interactions with raccoons. They stop, look at you and hold prolonged eye contact, then resume whatever they were doing. I'm always left feeling like I rudely interrupted them and they're trying to tell me mind my own business.
“I'm always left feeling like I rudely interrupted them and they're trying to tell me mind my own business.”
I guarantee that raccoons call people Karen, quite frequently.
Please do and report back. Assert your dominance.
Make sure to prepare your war cry as well.
And look them right in the eye
Eat asparagus before. Lots of it. Make sure they know you mean it.
flex that healthy diet on them
And helicopter for maximum coverage.
Firm handshake.
Make sure to watch Never Cry Wolf first to get the technique down.
This all worked for me with my coworkers.
If you let the raccoons piss on you, they'll respect you more.
I'm now a part of a group, something bigger than just me.
didn't work for me. 1200 feet of fencing later I have the most expensive lettuce and tomatoes the world has ever known.
That's what my elderly mother does. She pees in a bucket and spreads it around and claims it deters racoons and rabbits.
Ah, the illustrious strain, "Golden Shower"
Spread cayenne pepper around the yard, worked for us when we put in a new lawn
One simply needs to bring a middle school boy who has just discovered axe body spray.
Either the axe will cancel out the fox smell, or it’ll be a stonewall. Like when Harry Potter and Voldemort’s wands did that connection thingy
I'm not a stinkologist, but that sounds right to me.
Oh wow, I didn’t know they smell bad!
It's supposed to be their pee that to high hell, I've been told that if you step in a puddle of it the smell will stick to that shoe for the better part of a month
I daresay that would be the worse part of a month
The bog of eternal stench
obligate carnivores have a huge excess of amino acids in their diet, which means a lot of amines to excrete somehow.
amines are notorious for their poor compatibility with human sensibilities, with lovely scents ranging from cat urine to rotting fish. I've heard it theorized that this is because usually these compounds are associated with decay and decomposition (after all, metabolism and decomposition are to one another what fire is to rusting, just a more controlled way of doing the same thing but getting something useful out of it).
They piss a lot
I learned something today. Thanks
TIL that foxes stink. Had no idea.
Could you describe it?? Is it like a skunk?? Hot trash?? Rotting meat??
or hearing them in the middle of the night
What do they say?
Oi, oi, oooooi
Oh no... 🤣
They do a very loud hee hee
We all love MJ
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!
"HEY, IM WALKIN HERE"
Younger ones also sound like an elderly woman in distress when they’re yelling to each other. We live near a cemetery with healthy populations of deer, coyotes and foxes. My neighbor that recently passed was pushing 100 and she was still pretty active taking walks and doing light gardening. We got woken up at like 3 am to what sounded like an old woman yelling and the dog was going crazy. I go outside and was pleasantly surprised to see fox pups playing in my neighbor’s front yard instead of my neighbor having some sort of issue.
I have a fox den behind my house, fox pups can also sound like a women screaming according to my SO who spent many nights worried/concerned/scared about the person screaming near our house until they finally talked to me about it and I told them it was just the foxes.
I used to want a pet fox. Then I learned about foxes.
Cardigan welsh corgis are like non stinky fox sized fluffs. I’ve got several in my family and they’re adorable and fill that fox sized hole in my heart
I don't want to know what kind of relationships you've been in if your heart requires a foxhole.
Love the username, if it’s a reference to neuromancer.
And boy do you not want to know the relationships I’ve been in.
it is indeed!
Aw man, come on now. I smell like cherry vanilla, and deodorant.
When she fell in the hole 😭😭😭
A fox hole!
That was a foxtrot right into a foxhole
Watch out! Klunk!
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0/10, fuck off bot
edit: to the person who's wondering, I can't reply to you but the bot just said "10/10"
Thank you. I almost stopped watching to soon.
At what minute and second mark?
Right around 2:50
The red guy is Finnegan The Fox. He’s the star of this woman’s YT channel
Oh yes, he’s pretty much their mascot, I think. Who’s the super fluffy silver one? He’s so gorgeous!
I believe that’s Vixie.
I always though it was Dixie, not Vixie
Dixie is red, Vixie is silver. I think they both share a yard with Finnegan.
Along with Mutthias
Muttais is my favorite
Dixiedoo!
I didn’t even know foxes come in that color
A lot of these foxes are rescued from fur farms where they were bred to have beautiful fur. But there's some wild ones with that color occasionally too.
Thus the term “silver fox” …because handsome and cute and adorable. The men AND the foxes.
It's a new drop
honestly i never pay for DLC but i had to this time
My son is obsessed with this channel. We got their childrens books as christmas presents for him
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I think you meant 'invested' not 'wasted'. :)
well I already spend 22 hours a day looking at Cat subs on Reddit why not at the fox channel on YouTube?
After all, what are foxes, but cats in a dog's body.
My recommendation: Dixie steals a phone while it's recording!
Time invested, money donated. Love what they're doing.
I just feel like you really undersold how enchanting the whole channel is. Is it possible to become addicted to something in 20 minutes? (Asking for a friend)
What's up with the gums on the fox at 2:50 of the second vid? (Valentine?)
poor baby
That fox has a gum disease where the gums continually grow and grow. They get the excess gum removed from a vet trained to deal with foxes each year. Apparently if kept under control then it can made to be just an inconvenience. A good number of the foxes at that sanctuary have some form of issue with them, since most are rescues and come from fur farms and the like.
Welp.
There goes my day.
Saveafox
Along with Dixiedoo! Who was just having none of it hahah
Kestryl and a few other babies were taken in from a fur farm to be placed in fox sanctuaries. Saveafox takes in captive-bred foxes that can’t be released into the wild. More about them at their website: https://www.saveafox.org/?mibextid=Zxz2cZ
Also, this baby fox is so cute and curious! I love her interactions with the adult foxes! And she does have a stumpy tail, I read from the original post that if the mom is stressed, she takes it out on the babies :(. Thankfully, this little one seems happy and healthy.
Video from their social media page.
Fur farming is despicable
Agreed! The fur looks better on the animal!
As is factory farming in general, and for the same reasons.
We made a mistake when we let farming retreat into the shadows where we didn't have to see it, and excitedly welcomed cheaper and cheaper and cheaper animal products.
We made a mistake when we let farming retreat into the shadows where we didn’t have to see it
This is more or less by design. They’ve literally passed laws making it illegal to document how horrific animal agriculture facilities are.
and not enough people cared about the conditions in my city to form a protest :(
Bring that up to the free speech and just asking questions folk to see mask come off
One of my longtime family, friends was a Turkey farmer by trade but also ran Angus. The was they hush-hush described what they had to do, but were also probably required to do, struck me as bizarre and thought that seemed pretty harsh.
That being said they have also hybridized chickens and turkey into some weird, stupid abominations.
But, later also learned that the meat processing industry's essentially shaped how everyone would farm and would also put farmers into serious debt to the company that I got even more pissed about.
Then the same companies decide to redraw the boundaries that they will accept from suppliers and whoops, guess your SOL pal.
I'm also a grandchild of a man that was a fairly low income but sustainable Fishing/trapping/Hunting outdoorsman, and it hurts to see how far things have changed too
As a family farmer with a small full time regenerative farm in PA, I couldn’t agree more.
to be honest all farming (the way we are currently doing it) is despicable. we just keep it concealed because meat consumption is so ingrained into our lives. not a dig on any individual, but on all of us for being so ambivalent to it
What really gets me is how unnecessary it is. Synthetic fur is just fine.
It depends on the synthetic fur. Most synthetic fur is made of plastic or acrylic, which are bad for the environment to produce, don't biodegrade in landfills, and release microplastics/microfibers during laundering that contaminate the water supply. But factory farming for furs is also terrible for the environment, in addition to the unethical treatment of animals and the toxic chemicals used to treat fur.
At the moment the best fur options seem to include wearing less fur in general, both bio and synthetic; wearing secondhand/recycled furs; washing synthetic fur less and wearing it longer to keep it out of landfills; buying fur clothing from brands that use more sustainable synthetic fur, like made from bioplastics or recycled plastic; and/or using real fur from wild-trapped invasive species.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/faux-fur-real-fur-which-is-more-sustainable
synthetic fur is plastic, and it sheds microplastic fibers much much more than other plastic-based fibers
Btw, new post (1h ago as I type this) with the new pup: Rescue Fox Pup is nervous until she meets other rescue foxes! https://youtu.be/ReFXc402K6w
I'm happy they helped them
thank you this answered my one question: why in the hell do you need a sanctuary, they’re wild and abundant. completely forgot about the evilness that is the fur industry.
Some buy them as Pets and don't realize the issues with looking after an animal like that brings.
The fox she brings the pup to first is such a case iirc
Genuine laughter is a waaaay better soundtrack than the “music” that usually accompanies similar videos.
Also, adorable fox is adorable.
I agree. Genuine audio makes it adorable and the cameraman is just great. One nice long take and plenty of fun. This is the best thing I’ve seen this weekend!
Go ahead and subscribe to saveafox on youtube if you haven’t already, they post cute videos like this all the time!
Yeah this one was definitely r/praisethecameraman
No! We need the same track as every other animal video on a loop while little speech bubbles pop up describing what the editor thinks they are saying... Always!
The first 10 seconds of the same track, looped mid-bar and with an awkward pause.
camera work was great.
What you don’t want some generic xylophone/whistle/ukulele/finger snapping song playing while the TikTok voice says something like “THIS BABY FOX IS MEETING OTHER FOXES FOR THE FIRST TIME”
I am upset that I can hear that. Not at you, at TikTok for allowing that monstrosity of a trend to happen
I struggle to recall a dumber social media trend than the obnoxious TTS reading unnecessary text that's already on the screen covering up the video.
Yes, this is the kind of content and animal videos I'm here for. I want to hear the squeaks, not here comes the sun.
+Sound of nature in the background instead of these annoying songs.
Plus Fox squeaks!
Also, not a bunch of cringe text overlayed on top, telling me what I'm currently watching with my own eyeballs.
I just sat here and watched the entire video - so relaxing 😌. The foxes are beautiful. Kestryl’s eyes are such a light blue color. I want to work here now 🤣.
Thank you for sharing this video
They have an entire YouTube channel you might want to bookmark!
I think I watched it 10 times now! I just had to share it, it’s so cute.
Soooo cute, thanks for sharing.
These foxes look so happy, and the baby is just having the time of her life!
Little one: Will you be my mom and dad?
Adults: Not it!
“Kids are expensive and a lot of work! Can’t you see we’re tired? And fat? Living our best lives. Gtfoh, goofy-ass humans”
Her little noises are so cute. I’m sure she will be accepted by the others in no time! Also this place looks magical.
IKR? Can they adopt me too?
I love how foxes are a cross between a cat and a dog!
EDIT: I don’t mean a literal biological cross.
They gave cat software and dog hardware
And a skunky smellware
Mal(odorous)ware
Think more of dog is the hardware is a the Internal parts and the external part ( aka case) a cat/lion
I gasped when I saw that ginger kitty! He must be the real owner. 🧡🧡🧡
It took me a second to realize it was a cat and not a weird looking fox!
Made me realize how small all these foxes are haha
There's also a siamese and standard issue. Was surprised to see any at all
“Standard issue” 🤣🤣🤣
Yep! Here's a handy guide for determining if a cat is standard issue 😜🤣
This is hilarious, and I added another cat sub to my feed!! Thank you!!
I’m torn between which wild animals are cuter, otters or foxes.
Why pick? When they both can be the same level of cuteness!
I love how noticeably thrilled the other grey foxes are about this new arrival
"Hi! Wanna play?"
I love how after the first meeting baby was all yay I want to play chase then realised oh too far away, this is scary and ran back to the human.
Lesson one of The day in learning to be a fox: Chase
I didn't know baby foxes were part rabbit, piglet, and kitten. Is this one missing a tail? EDIT: i see it was answered, stressed mommas can take it out on babies and thus the stumpy tail. Poor thing. So cute though! Foxes - dogs hardware, cat software.
God, Finnegan is such a potato.
Finnegan: “I’m done with this s….”
He had enough trouble with Kipper
SHE’S SO SMOL
Friends, check. Sudden attack of zoomiez, check!
Adorable baby ... I do hope one of the foxes turns out to be a friend for this baby.
Mutt seems to LOVE him. One day the baby will be big enough to keep up when they play chase! :)
I love foxes! Saw some babies near the house. We have some black and red ones that regularly come through our yard here in Colorado.
Colorado seems like it's just Utah but way better :( I want to live there someday
It’s more progressive for sure. Super expensive to buy a house still. That part sucks. If you can work remote and live in a smaller town you might get something more affordable.
Aww...... I love how the orange ones are like 'Not it!! RUN AWAY!!!' And the Grey one is all 'Yea! Mini me! PLAY TIME!!'
Those foxes are eating real well.
they are, but it's mostly winter coat
Yeah my first thought was "fat fox"
cutest vid i’ve seen in a while
Worth watching the whole 7 minutes. The little noises. The sudden hole. Floof chasing bigger floofs.
That was one of the cutest videos I have seen all month
I am putting this org on my donation list. This is great.
Hope more donate because of this video, these guys are legit and their work is incredibly important!
What happened to his tail?
OP said on OOPs page it said when mothers are nervous they take it out on babies....
Baby fox do do do do do do
Must be some real well behaved foxes if they're ok leaving those cats out there with them.
Apparently in captivity foxes and cats regularly get along and make friends. There’s a few examples of this online, but also a lot of wild foxes make friends with feral cats and share food sources too.
predators make friends with cats all the time when they grow up together. Dunno why.
Except 'yotes, f yotes though
Cuz cats are the ultimate homey
Probably because cats are predators themselves.
She also separates them by temperament. Finn/Dixie/Vixie/Mutt are highly socialized. Some of their other foxes are not.
what a lil cutie
Chonky foxes deserve chonky length vids.
Foxes act like dogs that were raised by cats.
I don't know anything about foxes, so can someone tell me if they are usually this...plump? I feel like those I've seen in other videos or sanctuaries are pretty sleek and have a more wiry build. Maybe this is a different kind?
Most of the foxes at SaveAFox are foxes that were rescued from the fur trade. They tend to look fluffier because they have thicker and more fur than regular foxes.
Yep, also their skin is looser because that makes for a bigger pelt.
Saveafox is incredibly diligent about vet check ups and occasionally if an animal does get overweight, they are good about controlling their diet.
It’s still winter coat season in the Midwest where these guys are located. Foxes always look fat and fluffy in the winter (and these are fur farm animals so they’re over coated in general) and then will slim out to a skinny summer coat when the weather changes.
You can see they’re in the process of blowing coat by the tufts hanging off them.
There are still piles of snow in parking lots here and there. 👀
The squeaks 🥺
I expected this video to end with the little guy tuckered out and sound asleep in a pet bed.
This is the best thing I've watched on Reddit in ages.
What a cute foxie! Love it!
I'm not watching a 7 minute vi-... Goddammit.
That’s pretty darned cute.
Well I fucking loved this
r/praisethecameraman — Apart from the bit where he lost track near the pipe, the rest is great. Really keeps me in the scene without distractions. The unsung hero here.
I started the video wondering why it was so long, next thing I know it was over and I was wondering why there wasn’t more to watch 🥲
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