Do Foxes Make Good Pets?

Foxes are good looking animals that have soft fur which feel nice to touch. It resembles a dog in appearance and its color varies from fox to fox. Looking at their fancy appearance, many people always think of making them their pets. They are lovely animals but since they are wild animals, you need to ensure that you do some domestication to keep them at home. Taming of these animals, should be done when they are still young to ensure that they learn all the required skills. You need to ensure that you train it well for you to make a good pet out of it.



Domesticating the Animal and How to Tame It
When you capture one through live traps, it will definitely try to escape from the house. It is your duty to ensure that you build a strong companionship between you and the fox. This will help to ensure that it respects you and responds to your commands easily. Since it is from the forest, it is good to treat it and vaccinate it so that you make a healthy pet that is always. Fox might carry rabies with it, and you could end up getting infected.

Teaching the Fox How to Behave
You are not only teaching it manners but also exercises that will make it to be flexible and wonderful always. Teach it basic commands like come, go, sleep and other important commands that you see important for your fox to have. After teaching it excellent exercises and manners, make sure that you make it know the importance of obeying your commands by rewarding it. All these efforts are meant to make the fox like a home pet that is always sociable with other pets and human beings. Deworm it regularly and ensure that you give it antibiotics when it is sick.

When you are done teaching it, it will see your home as its home, therefore, it will not run away. Don’t take full-grown fox as pets because these animals have an experience of the forest, therefore, they can disappear any time from your house. Young fox that have no experience of the forest will adapt to your compound never to think or attempt of disappearing. Give the fox a balanced diet to ensure that they grow healthy because these animals are meant to eat wild foods so they can become obese if they eat manufactured foods.

Fox can make good pets, but you need to devote yourself in training one until it becomes a domestic pet. Considering there are other readily available pets, it is so demanding to start raising the fox as pets. Many people want it because it is special and rare to find. Check at your wildlife animal laws as well because some countries do not allow the keeping of wild animals as pets. You need to ensure that you keep pets that are of domestic nature only but some parts allow the taming of the animals.

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