Mama fox did something extraordinary to save her baby

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00:00 - Baby fox.

00:01 - It's a dream to be near a little baby fox.

00:03 It's a magical experience.

00:05 Look at that baby fox.

00:07 I am Robin from Foxtails, Florida,

00:09 and this is Phoenix's story for GOP.

00:12 - Okay.

00:13 - We take in and provide rubber homes for foxes

00:16 that are raised in either fur farms or our pet surrenders.

00:19 (laughing)

00:20 Phoenix was born in a fur farm along with his siblings.

00:23 Give me a butt hug.

00:25 There's one.

00:26 And what happened was the mother chewed

00:28 all the baby's tails off,

00:30 making them unusable for the fur farmer.

00:33 The mother saved the lives of that whole litter

00:35 by chewing off their tails.

00:37 So they were rescued.

00:39 Fox, Darius, Mitten.

00:40 When we picked him up, he was just a little fluff ball.

00:42 My husband was just overwhelmed.

00:45 He was almost crying.

00:46 We are heading home.

00:48 Just holding him until we got all the way home.

00:50 About a six hour drive.

00:51 Day one, he lived in the house with us.

00:53 (crying)

00:54 He started to call for his litter mates and really cry.

00:58 It was so heartbreaking.

01:00 (crying)

01:02 We brought him in bed with us.

01:06 You shouldn't, but we did.

01:08 And he did much better.

01:09 He always made sure to use his litter box.

01:11 Ouch, baby fox's bite.

01:13 He chewed off a few things,

01:14 but he was very fun to have around.

01:17 Come on, you did it.

01:18 I would wiggle my fingers next to the top of the sheets

01:21 and he would do his fox hop.

01:22 I got one.

01:23 He loved to play with us.

01:26 Bring his favorite toys into bed

01:28 and just kind of hang out.

01:29 When he had about two, three months,

01:33 we started to let him go outside.

01:35 And boy, he started bonding with his adoptive siblings,

01:39 Winston and Turner.

01:41 Good morning, buddy.

01:44 He would still come in the house,

01:46 but his bonds started to get tighter with them.

01:48 And my husband kept saying to me,

01:49 are you sure he needs to stay outside?

01:51 But they prefer to be with other foxes.

01:53 Are you my little girl, Wilson?

01:55 And they are just the greatest little family.

01:58 These two are acting like daddies.

02:01 A lot of times the foxes will start to treat a baby

02:04 like it's their baby.

02:05 And they'll start bringing him food.

02:07 They would take him all their favorite snacks

02:09 and just drop it in front of him

02:10 and he would get the pick of anything that he wanted.

02:13 Each one of the foxes have chosen their own path

02:16 as to how they want to interact with little Phoenix.

02:19 Winston, we call him Winnie.

02:20 He is the one that likes to wrestle and play.

02:23 Really rough.

02:24 Oh, Winnie, he's tough.

02:26 Turner, he's the one that he curls up with

02:28 and takes naps with and eats his favorite food with.

02:31 I have always loved foxes.

02:35 There's a certain mystery to foxes,

02:37 the way they spend their lives.

02:38 Biggest misconception I want to talk about

02:40 is people thinking that they are just like dogs.

02:43 You have to be a certain kind of crazy

02:44 to have one as a pet.

02:45 They're destructive.

02:46 They want to dig a den in your couch.

02:48 They smell like skunks.

02:50 You can't discipline them because they are very sensitive.

02:53 If you were to scream at a fox

02:55 because it's ripping your carpet apart,

02:56 you may never be able to talk to or touch that animal again.

02:59 They hold grudges.

03:01 They're nothing like dogs.

03:02 And that's why most foxes that are purchased as pets

03:06 are rehomed within the first three months.

03:08 Phoenix, all his siblings got adopted

03:10 by other fox sanctuaries.

03:12 He will live his life out here

03:13 just like everybody else that lives here.

03:15 If they have no interest whatsoever

03:17 in having me touch them or pet them or anything like that,

03:20 that's fine.

03:21 Phoenix is here to be a fox.

03:23 I have to respect that.

03:24 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]

03:31 (gentle music)

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