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ANIMAL COMPETITORS 



little or no cost, and find them satisfactory. 

 Take care that the stronger, quicker foxes do 

 not rob and starve their fellows. 



Reproduction, and treatment of young. 

 Foxes breed only once a year, beginning when 

 a little less than a year old, but the first litter 

 will be small. The mating or rutting season 

 includes the months of February and March, 



ONE FORM OF BREEDING KENNEL. 



A barrel, with a similar elbowed entrance might easily take 

 the place of this box. 



and the young are born in April and May. 

 The number of young in a litter varies from 

 two to eight, the average number born to 

 adult parents being five. 



In the wild state foxes are monogamous. 

 The male has only one consort, at least only 

 one in a season. In confinement, however, one 



