Deaf fox cub picks up sign language to fit in with her owner

An abandoned deaf fox cub has been given a new lease of life after learning sign language from her ‘Doctor Dolittle’ owner. Animal lover Beth Tyler-King was particularly keen to adopt the cub as she too is deaf.

‘She couldn’t have come to a better person,’ she said. ‘I took her to vets twice and they both confirmed she couldn’t hear – she didn’t respond to anything. She has enhanced my life. I can’t imagine life without her.’

The 43-year-old has given Milly a collar to wear with a tag telling people she is deaf and uses hand signals to get her to obey basic commands. ‘To get her to sit, I put my palm out facing downwards to say “sit” and she does it. When she is being naughty, I waggle my finger at her.’

She also shares her home in Hartland, Devon, with many other injured or sick animals that Miss Tyler-King is looking after. ‘My spare room is like my intensive care room,’ she said. ‘At the moment, I have got 30 hedgehogs, five owls, seven dogs, 14 cats, five pigeons, a dove, a parrot, and a squirrel.’ She also has 12 hens and two ponies. LINK

Urban Foxes

You would expect a fox to steer clear of humans whenever possible, but here are six stories of foxes who are just fine moving into human territory, or even with humans themselves!

The closest most of us get to a fox is when we spot one under the garden shed or rummaging in our bins. Steve Edgington, however, has a daily brush with one – because it has moved into his home. The vixen, Miss Snooks, was taken into Mr Edgington’s pet shop as a ten-day-old cub after being found seemingly abandoned by her family six years ago. Since then, she has resisted all attempts to reintroduce her to the wild, returning through the catflap, and is instead content to live in Mr Edgington’s one-bedroom flat above the shop in Ditchling, East Sussex. LINK, Via: Neatorama

Cat Cleaning Fox

Here's a cat giving a fox a bath. Fox looks like he is totally enjoying it. LINK: Youtube

Foxes Jumping on a Trampoline

One of them seems to want to really bounce,but he'll need to put on a little more weight first.LOL LINK

Domesticated fox becoming latest pet craze in Russia

A new kind of pet is gaining popularity in Russia - the domesticated fox. The animals are being bred at a research institute in Siberia. Although these foxes are human-friendly, they've still got many wild habits.

Martyn is a Russian Silver Fox who has never lived in the wild and whose home is a three-bedroom Moscow flat. He's domesticasted but still has some wild habits, like hiding and digging holes.

While it took centuries to turn a wild dog into a pet, scientists here succeeded with foxes in 50 years of selective breeding. LINK, Via: Youtube

Fox on Trampoline

A wild fox playing on the kids' trampoline in the back garden, who would've ever thought you could capture this. LINK: Youtube