well, my son is in the process of getting a permit to get a fennec fox. Anyone here have any experience with them? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Sounds like a terrible idea when there are perfectly good dogs and cats in shelters waiting to die. Is it a status symbol? How old is your son?
He doesn't want a dog or cat. We have already rescued 4. Its no more a status symbol than a pet ferret or hedgehog. He's 19
It's a wild animal. Just get a chihuahua, there are thousands in California shelters now due to a recent trend that apparently died out.
all animals were once wild animals. These aren't taken from the wild, but raised and sold as dogs and cats are. If I get a feral cat as a kitten and raise it is that wrong?
They aren't domesticated animals, cats are, even feral ones. I read they they escape easily. It could become an invasive species, they aren't native to your area, I'm sure.
where did you read that they escape easily? Are you saying they get out as easily as a person's cat or dog? Did chinchillas become an invasive species? Hedgehogs? Ferrets? No, I think cats did though
This is the first time I even heard of a fennec fox. Where would you get one? Are you allowed to keep it as a pet? What do they eat?
don't watch many nature shows. breeder depends on your areas laws on exotic pets. in the wild or as a pet?
they are rather small and a burrowing species. you need to take precautions. I have read your always supposed to have them on a leash when out doors
House cats have been selectively bred by humans for thousands of years now (approximately 8,000 according to Wikipedia), and domestic dogs even longer than that. There is no real comparison between adopting a feral cat, and taming a wild animal. Non domesticated animals are always going to have an element of unpredictability that domesticated ones do not. Cats and dogs that suddenly went wild and attacked their owners (or worse yet, their children) were quickly selected out of the gene pool. Over the millennia, this has resulted in animals that are very compatible with humans (because we made them that way). No matter how tame something like this fox may seem, it simply cannot be trusted in the same way your average dog or cat can.
Ferrets and hedgehogs are both illegal to own in California because of the fear that they might cause havoc should they escape and establish breeding populations. Edit: Fennec foxes are illegal to own here as well.
No I don't watch a lot of nature shows, I used to watch a lot of Animal Planet before but the new shows are not as engrossing. Why would anyone breed fennec foxes? Are they of any particular value? Is it considered an exotic pet? Where are they native to? What do they eat both in the wild [I assume smaller herbivores?] and when domesticated?
their cute dunno yes north africa in the wild they eat mice, lizards and the like. in captivity they eat either a special small canid diet but most people who keep them as pets give them a mix of dog and cat food with some fruits and veggies.
So they are being bred because they are "cute"? I foresee a lot of abandoned fennec foxes in the near future.
Foxes take a lot more care. It will want to be around your son 24/7. Very very attached, even more than dogs. I saw a video once on a fox owner.
You might want to think twice before getting one. Apparently they are connected to the drug violence in Mexico http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/a...esident.interview/#fbid=JFz5x_eN0cp&wom=false
I think I like your fox better than the OPs fox. I heard somewhere that foxes are infamous for peeing on everything, and they like to dig.