Fur Farm Fox Ages Well
Animal Story, Blog, Foxes | December 16, 2009
Feather; rescued fur-farm fox, is nearly 11 years old. She is a loving, squiggling vibrant bundle of luscious red fur, bright eyes, mischief, intense emotions, curiosity, intelligence and acrobatic grace, one of the miracles of life on this earth. The average life-span for a fox in a fur farm is 1-2 years. She is a single living testament to the lives of all the foxes who were not rescued – what they might have been. Lives they might have lived. Eleven years of loving and living and the joy of being in an astounding body that is a fox. To bring them into this world to live in a tiny mesh cage; never to get out; vitality constrained and unexpressed, forced to bring life into this world only to have their babies taken away year after year to be killed for some person’s luxury – what that must do to our collective human soul!
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She looks so sweet!
Comment by liz — December 17, 2009 @ 4:44 pm
Thank you for doing what you are doing. What a beautiful animal.
Comment by Sam — July 13, 2010 @ 7:51 pm
Wire cages: Welcome to the world of a majority of the world’s billions of chickens! To never move more than a foot or two, to never feel the sun on one’s wings, to never rub and roll in the warm sweet earth (dirt-dusting is the automatic response of any chick given the opportunity to touch earth.)
When people claim that chickens are stupid and dirty, they never imagine how sadly ignorant and filthy humans would be if they spent their entire lives in a small cage with up to 16 other humans, no greens, no showers, no sunshine, no stimulus, no information, no hope.
Although the fox is the natural enemy of the free-range chicken, our wild fox do not abuse their privileges, I hardly know they are still there. (I think they take a lot of eggs, and the sick or infirm chickens. If I didn’t have a wildlife camera I would never see them.)
In the movie Grizzly Man I was disgusted that this stupid man ignored and rebuffed the foxes’ wonderful repeated humorous attempts at befriending him. The man was not there to integrate with Nature but rather to intrude into the bears’ territory and prove his machismo, and he paid the inevitable price.
If ever I give up my chicken and dog rescue, I would love to get adopted by some foxes!
Comment by Katha Sheehan — March 18, 2011 @ 8:04 am