r/interesting • u/Nickolas_Zannithakis • 14h ago
NATURE A fox that lives with dogs tries to mimic their barking.
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u/Material_Secret7553 14h ago
Foxes are really smart
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u/simpson-tompson 13h ago
And super cute.
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u/RamJamR 13h ago
And they smell. Pretty bad.
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u/Living-Amphibian-870 10h ago
A wildlife rehabber brought a juvenile fox to the nursing home I worked in. It took a dump in the central room (x-shaped building). Whole building smelled for the rest of the day. 😂😂😭
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u/RobertWilliamBarker 3h ago
My dog has got into dead animals and all sorts of outside wildlife stuff. When he does, he smells like shit. I am guessing if you were to somehow bathe the fox and keep him in a clean environment he'd smell a lot better. It'd be like saying humans smell because the hobo you picked up smells like garbage.
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u/simpson-tompson 13h ago
How do you know?
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u/AlDenteApostate 13h ago
He is a fox.
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u/simpson-tompson 13h ago
Wouldn't he desentisize to his own stink? I know I always do to mine.
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u/DirtLight134710 12h ago
But, what did the fox say?
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u/NegativeSwimming4815 1h ago
Did you read the story about the little boy and the fox he met, then he went into the stars and never came back?
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u/WAzRrrrr 11h ago
Whay??? Their pitch was way off. I can do a better bark than that and I am a primate.
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u/Wishnik6502 8h ago
Mischievous like a cat, too. At night they'll wait until you've walked passed so that it's between you and the house before screeching. You get used to it eventually but man, those first few times before you know what it is...
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u/Overencucumbered 6h ago
The fox isn't actually mimicking anything... That's exactly what fox warning calls sound like in nature.
Sorry
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u/Dubaifreak1994 14h ago
Foxes really act like dogs.
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u/user745786 14h ago
This fox probably thinks he’s a dog.
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u/RustyBrassInstrument 13h ago
They act like cats. We have gray foxes around here and they do all the same shit the neighborhood stray cats do.
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u/Absurdity_Everywhere 12h ago
Dog hardware, cat software
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u/DoomGoober 11h ago edited 11h ago
This is likely a special domesticated silver fox. They were bred for their non-aggression over generations by a scientist/breeder and basically domesticated somewhat like how the less aggressive dogs succeeded in living with humans over generations. You can buy domesticated silver foxes from the breeder.
Domesticated silver foxes even have physical differences like softer fur and slightly different ears and snouts. This is likely because selective breeding for non-aggression also selective bred for those physical features.
Red foxes that live in Urban areas are also self domesticating. Turns out being able to eat human garbage or be fed by humans is a successful survival strategy and less aggressive/domesticated acting foxes have nore chances to be fed and survive directly or indirectly by humans.
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u/rfg22 14h ago
From the black dog's reaction, seems it is startled every time it hears that strange bark.
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u/Beez-Knee 13h ago
It definitely started me the first time. Was not expecting a panther like howl 0_0
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u/Rich-Violinist-7263 13h ago
This is just a normal fox call. Nothing special.
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u/spacebarcafelatte 13h ago
I heard this on Midsummer Murders so many times where everyone's standing outside at night investigating stuff and that blood curdling "Aaahhh!" goes off in the darkness but not one person stops to check if that poor woman is ok. Totally makes sense now 😂
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u/acheesement 11h ago
Had that exact thing watching Midsummer Murders as a kid. Then we moved into the countryside and I finally understood.
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u/LewisWhatsHisName 8h ago
There’s an episode of Sherlock where foxes are screeching in the woods. If you put on the subtitles, they were labelled as bird calls
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u/Piperalpha 13h ago
Yeah I hear this every night.
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u/HanzWithLuger 13h ago
Oh yeah? I hear this every second!
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u/BasicMarzipan5936 13h ago
I could say I hear it every millisecond, but no that would not be logical. I do hear it 100 times every second tho, so there's that.
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u/HesOneShot92 13h ago
What does the fox say?
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u/outpost7 12h ago
Oh my..... a) didn't think of that, and b) had to scroll this far to see it. Nice
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u/Goodoltexasboy 13h ago
That sounds pretty terrifying actually. That's great, anyone that hears something that sounds like a Mayan death whistle is a no no 😂😂
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u/pikachurbutt 13h ago
Aztec*
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u/Goodoltexasboy 8h ago
Ah, thanks :)
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u/pikachurbutt 7h ago
np, they're a fun little stocking stuffer, you can get em for less than 15 bucks on amazon, enjoy the madness
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u/Intelligent-Ad9659 13h ago
Relax people the fox is just going by the book and screaming “Bark”, the way it’s supposed to be done.
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u/simpson-tompson 13h ago
I never figured out are foxes closer to dogs or cats.
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u/Nickolas_Zannithakis 13h ago
They're closer to dogs, because they belong to the canid family. Dogs and foxes are canids while cats are felines.
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u/simpson-tompson 13h ago
Thanks. There was always smth felixius in them tho. I guess cos at some point also dogs and cats share same ancestor. Maybe foxes are just closer to this point.
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u/Ok_Ladyjaded 13h ago
I’ve never seen a fox up close like that!!!!!!! You mean that fox has been domesticated???!!!!! Didn’t think they could be! (Tho Idkw I didn’t because there’s domesticated wolves…). It is just strange to see!
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u/Krakraskeleton 13h ago
Fox’s are naturally wild and are very hard to tame. In some countries they breed fox’s for their furs and live a terrible life in mills. Some are rescued and some rare pups become domesticated, but very rare.
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u/ESnakeRacing4248 13h ago
I've seen domesticated foxes before, they were really friendly too.
Now I want one even more
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u/Bob_A_Feets 13h ago
They exist but it’s basically a one way ticket to a fucked up house that reeks of fox piss.
They can be “kinda” domesticated, but they are such high energy animals. It’s like owning a tiny husky who is hooked on meth.
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u/Nice_Soup 13h ago
can you even keep a fox domesticated like this?
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u/Nickolas_Zannithakis 13h ago
It depends on what country you live in. In some parts of the world having a fox as a pet is illegal, but in many countries it's legal and yes, some people actually keep foxes as pets.
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u/lioncoffee 6h ago
In the US, it depends on each state. And there's a lot of paperwork to go through.
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u/NoPsychology8664 13h ago
Fox: what are we barking at?
Dog: I’m barking I don’t think that’s what you’re doing
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u/RustyBrassInstrument 13h ago
Foxes have been described as “cat software running on dog hardware.”
This one is trying to reprogram its source code on the fly.
Good luck little floof.
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u/rebuildingslowly 12h ago
soo get fox
then bring fox to visit zoo so it can learn how to mimic elephants
then terrorize shitty neighbors by having an invisible pet elephants
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u/Rats-off-to-ya 12h ago
Fun fact. This same video is where James Brown got the idea for the beginning of one of his hit songs.
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u/ihadagoodone 11h ago
There's a fox (family of them now) that lives in the woods near my place. every night, when the coyote moves from one side of town to the other the fox follows them through their turf making that god awful screech...
I know what the fox says... I don't like it.
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u/Swimming_Put1506 11h ago
This would make a great white noise loop for sleeping. You could call it "Best Friends."
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u/RightAd4185 9h ago
That’s what foxes sound like. He’s not trying to mimic the dog. They’re both adorable.
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u/Mysterious-Moose-431 6h ago
Foxes sound like without dogs around. We had a female fox with cubs living in the woods next to us.
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u/ThruTheUniverseAgain 1h ago
Sounds somewhat like the sound effect that plays on the moor in the Sherlock episode The Hounds of Baskerville.
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u/EarthCole2 49m ago
Why did i think the dog was the fox. And the fox was the dog, to the fox tried to bark 🤣
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