Has a wild fox ever bred with a pet dog?
dogs and foxes cant mix… they are both from the Canidid species but are too chromosomally diffrent to co-mix for offspring. Coyotes and Wolves are simular enough to mix, but not Foxes. Sorry it isnt going to happen and for the person who says they have a Fox/Husky mix sorry to say its not Fox is probably another dog that looked like a fox. I am sure if you had the vet do a blood test on your dog its 100% dog, and likely a Coyote did the dirty deed not a fox. This information is from off the internet a link from Wikipedia.com “Dox (fox/dog mix) Contrary to popular myth, dogs cannot successfully interbreed with red foxes. Dogs have 78 chromosomes, but red foxes have only 38 chromosomes. This severe mismatch is a barrier to hybridisation. In spite of anecdotal evidence of hybrids and claims that hybrids are superior to ordinary dogs, there have been no genetically verified “doxes”. An unconfirmed female terrier/fox hybrid was reported, and later euthanized (put to sleep), in the UK. Bri
