Yea; I wasn't expecting much from this, but I clearly need to stop underestimating Poet V.

Usually cute animals doing nothing interesting are good enough for people here. This is a nice break from that.

heehee!

You know what's sad? I get this reference.

I thought that would be the case for at least 3/4 of PoeTV.

It's a soon to be conversation piece.

It is. Even though foxes are "so cute!!1" They are wild animals and when kept as "pets" will end up hurting their owner/being abandoned.

Haven't they bred domesticated, tame foxes? I remember reading somewhere that it took 40 generations to get them tame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

If I recall correctly it took about eight generations to mutate.

I know a lady that has a pet fox. It isn't vicious, just a hell of a lot of work. It's hyper, jumpy, and starts warbling/yodeling in the middle of the night and/or for no apparent reason.

I think at that point it becomes less of a pet and more of an ongoing rehabilitation project, but this lady also has a Caracol cat and some Servals.

And she works as a clerk at a big insurance company here, go figure. No clue how she manages to not have a nervous breakdown, I sure as hell would.

I'm pretty sure the reason it warbles and yodels is because it's a fucking fox and that's what they do because that's how they are made.

There's a good reason why most exotic pets aren't common. The less you hear of someone owning something, the more of a problem it is to own it, most likely. Low level exotic would be something like a sugar glider, and medium would be foxes and raccoons, along with your larger reptiles.

In Texas, it's legal to own all sorts of crazy things- lions and tigers are perfectly legal to own, I don't think you even need a license. Still, practically nobody owns one because they can maul you, they don't do tricks, and the novelty probably wears off after your third weekly 0 food bill.

Maybe that's just the depression.

the macabre decorations keep him in line

Foxes act like this when they have been beaten. A happy fox jumps around. This fox's tail stays low to keep from shitting itself. I've spent three summers volunteeing at a fox shelter. This is a beaten fox.

You can see it in his eyes.

There are people here who would have an unhealthy obsession with this woman.