Does anyone have any experience with Foxes as house pets?
Yes plenty. Every year we get a dozen or so foxes that have been brought up in a house environment. People take a cub on thinking how sweet. The cub will usually take to being handled quite well. However once the fox get to the age of about 14-16 weeks it goes through a stage called neophobia. Young children go through the same stage, trusting everyone up until a certain age then suddenly bursting into tears if they are handed to a stranger. A fox cub on seeing a person who is not an immediate member of the family will dart for cover and panic. At 14 – 16 weeks the foxy smell will be on everything that doesn’t move, and on some things that do! Foxes being territorial animals will mark their territory frequently i.e. the house and contents and will usually leave their dropping near to the door. Since their liking for chewing leather plastic, wire etc they actually become a health hazard in the house in so much as they will chew through electric cables without thinking twice. Nice storie
