I know in MA, and FL you need to get a license, because those areas’ laws consider them wild animals, but I would check with your wildlife department. Also check to see if you local area allows it, because if the state allows it, but the city doesn’t, then you have to move, or not get a fox.
Probably the best resource is the blog that’s called: thepetfoxnet, because she goes into detail on training, feeding, mannerisms, and care. She has a fox that’s named Gizmo, a dog, and a cat, and has interesting stories about her pet fox.
Then why aren’t there seeing eye cats, police cats, drug sniffing cats, cadaver sniffing cats, handicap assistance cats, and guard cats ? Methinks it because cats aren’t as intelligent as dogs are.
They have different aspects. I prefer cats as pets.
I don’t hate dogs. I have met awesome, well trained dogs with great personalities. But that depends greatly on the owner
I hate how most dog owners raise and train their dogs. Alot of dog owners get offended if you don’t pet their dog. Or they just let their dogs loose, and they act like strangers should be happy that their filthy mongrel is jumping on us.
So I just dislike being around dogs mostly because of their thoughtless selfish owners. The dogs themselves probably would be fine if they were trained.
Depends on what you mean by “superior.” If you mean which is more useful, the obvious answer is “dogs.”
Dogs take care of our blind, they can detect cancer, drugs and seizures, they protect our police officers, homes and livestock, they can save us from drowning, they can take us great distances across the snow and if you get buried by snow, they can dig you out. They can go hunting with you and retrieve your kill.
Cats are fine, they make good pets, but they will never be as useful to humans as dogs. They’ll keep your yard and house clear of rodents but that’s where their usefulness ends. However, they make better city pets. You don’t have to walk a cat and they’re fine spending their entire life indoors.
You can train a dog to be a saint (And also not train it and let it become a demon). Cats just kind of do their own thing. If it’s an a-hole, it’s an a-hole.
Yeah my cat stops everything she’s doing to come greet me at the door when i come back and chats with me she gives me attitude and complains when my alarm goes off too early in the AM and when we have arguments she opts to be the bigger person and will walk out of the room before getting angry
“Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect – the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours – and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense.”
(the laugh)
she gives me attitude and complains when my alarm goes off too early in the AM and when we have arguments she opts to be the bigger person and will walk out of the room before getting angry
If it’s got multiple legs and/or a tail, I will try to pet it or gladly rescue it.