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A Pet Fox 
BY HENKI(C. “ECKZAND: Jr. 

S one of your newest readers I have 
taken great delight in the “real 
published in recent 
copies of your interesting magazine, the 
story of the tame deer in particular. 
My own experience in “animal train- 
ing” has been of a varied character. 
Dog puppies, including a St. Bernard, 
have received considerable attention. 
This particular St. Bernard grew up to 
a large size and was really a remark- 
able dog. 
One of the most interesting animals 
I have had to. deal with was a red fox. 
The little creature came into my pos- 
session in a very peculiar manner. One 
day, some years ago, I was on a busi- 
ness visit to Burlington, Iowa, and in 
company with a local building contrac- 
tor, saw in a store window four very 
young puppies of some kind, caged in. 
It was the opinion at the time of both 
of us that they were wolf puppies, but 
of course we weren’t sure. I said to 
my companion that I would be glad to 
buy one of them for my small son to 
play with. But we walked on and the 
incident was forgotten until several 
days later there came by express to my 
office a well-crated puppy just like the 
ones I had seen in the display window 
of that other city. The sender did not 
give his name, but the inscription on 
the tag was of such humorous and 
striking, nature that I knew that nobody 
but my friend who had heard my re- 
mark about the wild little creatures 
could be back of the deal. Anyway, 
here was the puppy, and what was to 
I did not have the 
heart to kill him, so home to the house 
went the crate. The little animal was 
/put in a large box which was kept in 
the cellar for several weeks. To begin 
with, the creature would not eat nor 
drink, being apparently too frightened 
|and not sufficiently acquainted with his 
new surroundings. He would snap at 
your hand if you tried to touch him, 
but gradually he became _ tractable, 
It will identify you, 

would drink milk and would take a 
little solid food. Growth was slow to 
begin with, but in less than two months 
it was plainly seen that it was not a 
wolf but a fox that we were attempting 
to tame. 
At about this time he began to be 
very quick in his movements. When 
about half grown he was taken out of 
the box and, with a collar around his 
neck, was chained on a side porch. Havy- 
ing already begun to show signs of 
taming, the children were allowed to 
play with him and would lead him 
around with little trouble. He seemed 
to take a liking to the children from the 
beginning, was not afraid of them, nor 
was he afraid of women; but men he 
never seemingly trusted, and he would 
get excited and pull hard on the chain 
as soon as one came near. 
When nearly full grown, the fox was 
given more freedom and was often left 
loose in the house the same as a cat or 
pet dog. His innocent tricks and his 
playfulness were astounding. Often 
when the family was sitting at meals 
would he run around the table and 
jump at the children from behind and 
pretend to bite their ears. One little 
girl in particular was his favorite. In 
place of pulling her ears, he would pull 
her hair ribbon and run away with it. 
She would teach him tricks such as a 
dog has never been seen to do. The 
little fellow had a wonderful capacity 
for learning. The girl would move her 
hand up and down and at this motion 
the fox would stand almost straight up 
on his hind legs and jump up and down 
like a monkey. 
With dogs in the neighborhood he 
was as arule friendly. One little short- 
legged, long-eared fellow was a partic- 
ular friend of his. They often played 
together, spinning around, the fox try- 
ing to catch hold of the dog’s ears, and 
the dog, the fox’s tail. One hot sum- 
mer day they had been playing until the 
fox was overheated and lay down like 
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