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The Fox Before: >>5080430
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>>5083520
whoops, hit submit accidentally
anyway fox stink can't be THAT bad
probably just smells a bit foxy
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identify this paw
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>>5083460
They're not native nor were they imported into Japan. They're practically non-existent in their mythology as a result. Grey foxes / Urocyons are native almost exclusively to North America.
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Tanuki paw
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>>5083557
I was expecting a more interesting answer, but thanks anyway. It's interesting to wonder how pantheons and spirits apply beyond a culture's borders. If the spiritual beings (of Shinto) are real, then it reasons they would not be confined by the shores of Japan, and that humans only know a tiny fraction of what there is to know about them.

Imagine Americanized Shinto. The kitsune statues are of gray foxes holding a sheaf of corn, and their votive bibs have stars and stripes; the torii gates are painted red white and blue, the honden and haiden have a shingle roof and plastic siding, the foxes' shinsen food offering is ice cream, the chozubachi is a motion-detector hand sanitation station, and the saisen-bako accepts credit cards and app payment.
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Kiki...
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>>5083577
I'd try finding out their place in the mythologies of their native range, if I were you.
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>>5083584
Why do they hate grapes so much
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>>5083577
rare eye slit reveal
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>>5083562
the fox tree is generous this season, what a pretty fella
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>>5083577
Shinto is distinctly Japanese, it would not transfer well across borders. Consider local faiths and stories for the gray fox range, other faiths that respect foxes exist too.
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Would you want a fox for Christmas?
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>>5083633
I'm not equipped to take care of a fox around the year so just fopmas would be adequate
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>>5083517
Just like wolves evolved into different donestic breeds of dog, blanket foxes would evolve to match human sleep cycles, and as far as the smell aspect, people would just get used to it over generations
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>>5083514
>nothing to see here please move along!
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>>5083631
Native american religions are already shintoism, in their ways.
genetic research supposedly even has them as coming from the same people who formed the early japanese civilization.

It's not that much of a stretch to imagine the unerpinnings of modern shintoism, it goes so far back that nomads took it with them accross the bering straight.
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>>5083633
I want to be a fox for Christmas.
Permanently.
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>>5083636
>you will never be this carefree
anons going "i'd rather be a human" need to touch fluffy tail
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>>5083685
Your wish is granted. However, your genie is only aware of fennec foxes, so that is the species you shall become on December 25th.
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Is this a fox and if so what kind? Its been hanging around my house. Hard to tell but it looks like he might be missing a leg.
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>>5083723
The small head and tail shape are clear: it's a gray fox.
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>>5083562
And a red fox in a yew tree.

Oh hey. 12 species of Vulpes... 12 days of Christmas... it could work.

On the Twelfth Day of Foxmas, my true love gave to me:
twelve swifts a-sleeping
eleven bengals pouncing
ten kits a-leaping
nine tibetans staring
eight arctics gekkering
seven capes a-digging
six ruppells roaming
five golden fennecs
four pale fox
three blanfords
two corsac fox
And a red fox in a yew tree.
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>>5083670
The word you are looking for is animism. Native faiths varied by tribe, but could include henotheism and other modals too. Shintoism is animistic, but animism is not Shinto. Shinto as a concept may go back into pre-history, but the popular diety associated with foxes have the first written source of their name around the 8th century, and possible practices for a unspecific being of agriculture to the later 4th century.
>Origin
Native American mix is unlikely at best. There's more reason to suggest influence from Polynesia and Siberia, possibly by Altaic, Tungunistic among the northern direction.

But, that is enough digression from fox. Fox posting will continue and fox talk will be how I close. I will meet you in the forbidden lands if you want to banter more
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>>5083758
Not who you're replying to, but I'm enjoying this. Still feels on topic fox talk.
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TANU CENTIPEDE
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>>5083747
And now, as performed by an actual fox
>NYE-NYE-EE-EEE-EEE-E-E-EE-EE-EEE-EEE RRURURUURURUURUU mmnnnnm YAAAAAA
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How much of your brain's space is taken by foxes?
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>>5083855
>wake up
>open /fox/
>post a fox
>go to the /an/ catalog
>open /fox/
>oh right
>close tabs and check for new fox pictures on twitter
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What if we kissed under the mistlefox
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>>5083897
Under the danging pair of fox's jinglebells
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>>5083897
Cute squirrel dog
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>>5083855
About 20%, give or take. The rest is work, survival and social self monitoring (don't show co-workers the fox file size, dont say fox around the in-laws, etc)
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All 12 Vulpids can produce interspecies hybrids with each other (through artificial insemination) but AFAIK the only hybrid created so far, by man, has been the [arctic x red].

But due to natural range overlap, these have almost certainly occured naturally: [ruppells x red] [blanfords x red] [corsac x red] [blanfords x ruppells]

This episode of The Canid Project Podcast discusses wild canid species and interspecies hybrids, starting at 3 minutes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-canid-project/what-do-all-those-terms-mean-W1J_yCXh56B/

There are 66 possible intervulpine hybrid possibilities. (12x11)/2

I would personally like to see an arctic fox x fennec hybrid.
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Why do they call them "silvers" when they're obviously black
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>>5084032
silly you can't mix ice and fire
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>>5084033
It has to be seen in-l person to get why they're called "silver", but this photo is the best I've seen that captures the 'silver' effect.
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>>5084044
We already have the wood fox, fire fox, earth fox, and metal fox, so the water fox is the last elemental fox we need to unlock via vulpinalchemy. Who knows what secrets the water kitsune will unleash.
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>>5084032
Now I'm curious how that kind of hybridization works. If red foxes and arctic foxes have different chromosome counts how on earth do they successfully breed?
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>>5084046
Watching them experiment is heartbreaking though
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>>5084056
The sperm and egg each contribute their haploid chromosomes, and after fertilization the chromosomes that are most-similar pair up, but the extras from the parent with more chromosomes doesn't get paired up. These 'extra' chromosomes aren't a problem because all the genes are there to make the fox. It's only a problem when it comes to producing gametes, where meiosis requires chromosomes to pair with their homologs, which can't happen (not very well). Sterility, or limited fertility. is the result.

This is the chromosome count for foxes. Same chromosome count means likely fertile offspring. (Only these 8 species have had their chromosomes counted so far):
34 red fox (+0-8 'B-chomosomes')
36 tibetan, corsac
50 swift, kit, arctic
60 bengal
64 fennec
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>>5084069
Interesting fox science. So I guess it's like mules or ligers then.
Kind of weird that pairing two platinum foxes together is lethal, but foxes that aren't even the same species can manage at least 1 generation of offspring.
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What if we bred red foxes with red foxes and created even redder foxes
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>>5084066
Happy is the fox who has never been bathed.
Yet.
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>>5084107
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Mom they're talking about breeding foxes again
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Gray foxes WERE classified as Vulpes in the 1800s by some naturalists, they had these now-obsolete binomial names:

Vulpes Virginianus (Lesson, 1842)
Vulpes pennsylvanica (J. E. Gray, 1869)
Vulpes cinereoargentatus (Cope, 1899)

>>5084114
"sex of foxes" is a palindrome
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>>5084116
Mr. Alarm, sex of foxes eat taco cats. Level madam, redder lil eyes, I gag. Wow. Todd erases a red dot.

Now I won.
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I learned something new. To the tanuki poster: Japanese Raccoon Dogs (38 chomosomes) are closer related to Vulpes, and Chinese (Common/Eurasian) raccoon dogs (54 chromosomes) are closer related to Urocyon. Their status is disputed, but they appear to be two entirely different species rather than subspecies. "it is unknown whether mainland raccoon dogs and Japanese raccoon dogs can produce fertile offspring, it is assumed that the chromosomal differences between them would have deleterious effects on the fertility of the potential offspring and this would be indicative of speciation"

https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/2928782
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>>5084271
Celebrate Vulpini diversiti!
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>>5084271 (You)
Oops disregards my claim about "closer to Vulpes"/"closer to Urocyon". I now realize the chart is arranged by descending chromosome number, NOT by genetic proximity (although foxes with the same number /are/ likely genetically close). The part about the two tanuki maybe being different species is still true though.
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>>5084251
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giggling at you while covering her mouth with the tip of her tail
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If you had a pet fox, would you prefer a male or female?
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>>5084333
Vixen because they piss everywhere slightly less
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post whiskers
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I'd like to hear more from the high and drunk fox sniffer.
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>>5084387
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>>5084423
>>5084399
Nice ones, thank you.
For some reason my mind often blanks them out subconsciously until I focus on them and remember "oh yeah, whiskers are a thing"
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Foxes climb up trees and SHIT on wild berries to give you brain worms
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>>5084544
truly the cats of the canines
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Imagine being a fox and pushing your snout into some hole to catch a vole and feeling your whiskers getting pushed back
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Japan guy, I got some questions before I visit Zao Fox Village & Kitakitsune Farm.

- Do they have security cameras everywhere?
- Do the employees watch *all* the visitors *all* the time?
- After they close, do all the employees go home? (read: do they have night security?)
- Are there any spots a visitor could hide before closing hours, and then come out after the employees go home, to interact with the foxes all I want? Bathroom seems obvious, but somewhere outside where the foxes are would be better, like inside those concrete tunnels the foxes sleep in.
- In general, which one has laxer staff supervision, Zao or Kita?
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>>5084580
I'll be keeping my eye on the news for any foreigners in Japan getting eaten by foxes
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foxes are vicious and deadly
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>>5084619
Don’t be fooled by their looks.
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>>5084580
Ill send an email to both places to watch out for lunatics like you
Hopefully youll do time in a nip prison
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>>5084680
I look like this and eat like this
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What's your opinion on flying foxes?
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>>5084619
Ehh, they can bite quite hard and scratch a bit. So long as you don't give them an important vein, it's only painful and needs isopropyl alcohol
Even the tiny ones can break skin though
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>>5084664
I've seen furries who MALD over finding out foxes don't have exposed beans and are covered in fluff even on their paws
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>>5084714
I guess Nick and Judy have something to bond over.
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>>5084714
The fluff factor varies
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>>5084754
Another advantage to using foxes as our blankets:
They can sweep the floor when not in use.
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>>5084691
They're the most attractive bat, worthy of the honorary title fox. Other bats look disgusting, do an image search for "bat faces" if u dont beleive me

>>5084736
Imagine the smell.

>>5084774
Imagine the smell.

>>5084664
Imagine the smell.
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>>5084854
A fox’s paws generally have a strong, musky, and slightly "skunky" odor. This is due to a combination of sweat, bacteria, and specialized scent glands. Unlike most domestic dogs, foxes have active interdigital glands located between their toes. These glands secrete a pungent, oily fluid.

The Purpose: This scent acts as a "chemical trail." As a fox walks through its territory, it leaves behind a unique olfactory map that tells other foxes who has been there, which direction they were headed, and even their social status.

The "Foxy" Musk: Foxes are famously "aromatic" animals. They have sebaceous glands all over their body that release a scent often compared to skunk spray mixed with damp wood or even roasted coffee. Because foxes groom themselves like cats, this general body musk often transfers to their paws, layering onto the scent produced by the foot glands.

Bacteria and Sweat: Like dogs, foxes only sweat through their paws. In the wild, their paws are constantly in contact with soil, moisture, and prey. The interaction between their sweat and natural skin bacteria (like *Pseudomonas* and *Proteus*) can create a "savory, salty, or slightly fermented" smell, but it is almost always overpowered by the more intense "wild" musk of their scent glands.

Note: If you are asking because you have a pet fox, be aware that their paw scent can become much more intense during "rut" or breeding season, as their hormones significantly change their chemical output.

Would you like to know more about how foxes use these scents to communicate with each other?
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>>5084854
>>5084881
Jannie oh Jannie, where art thou?
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>>5084639
Tha fuck... dude you ever heard of minding your own fucking business and not being a snitch? We fox fans are supposed to stick together and help each other out.
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*muffled fox sounds*
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>>5084881
Cringe
>>5084854
If they are like wolves, they smell variously based on location. The back of the ears would be corn chips, the coat a musk which can very with gender and season. The paws would be earthy, iirc.
Part of the reason the smells vary are the species of bacteria/yeast-like stuff iirc in some spots, and glands in others.
The cottle mark would be something else. Then there's other glands, but this is the limit of my fox smell knowledge, if they line up in any way with wolves.
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>>5084854
Anon needs to get some sniffs in for us when he goes to Japan
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>>5084933
prööööööh
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>>5084960
Kitsune no nikukyu o kagitai na.
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What if foxes had four ears
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>>5084854
>:(
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>>5084854
Many bats have big pointy ears, though, which is the best feature an animal can have
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this picture goes hard
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>>5085047
Hey now...
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>>5084908
>fox_cringe.jpg
>>5084951
>cringe
I could've asked it to explain fox paws' aroma in uwu-speak, mind you. Which I shall do now, and which you must now read aloud to yourself in its entirety.

OwO! Hewwo! *wiggles ears and nuzzles u* Have u ever wondewed why a foxy’s beans smell so... *intense*? Let me tell u all about dose musk-y wusky toe beans in the cutest way possible!

The Secwet of the Foxy Musk-y
A foxy’s pawsies genewally have a stwong, musky, and a wittle bit "skunky-wunky" odow. *sniff sniff* This is because of all the sweat-weaty, tiny bactewia fwends, and speciawized scent glands! Unlike domestic doggos, foxes have active 'intewdigitaw glands' wight between deir toesies! Dese glands secwete a pungent, oiwy fwuwid that smells vewy... *distinctive*. OwO

The Puwpose (The Smelly Map!)
This scent acts wike a "chemicaw twail." As a fopsywopsy walks thwough deir tewwitowy, dey weave behind a unique *owfactowy map*! It tells other fopks:
- Who has been dewe!
- Which way dey wewe wunning!
- And even deir sociaw status! (Are dey a big boss foxy? UwU)

The "Foxy" Scent-y
Fonks are famouswy "awomatic" fwen-shaps. Dey have sebaceous glands all ovew deir fluffy bodies dat welease a scent wike skunk spway mixed wih damp wood ow even woasted coffee! *mlem* Because foxes gwoom demselves wike kitties, dat body musk gets aww ovew deir pawsies, making a big, smelly layew-cake of scents!

Bactewia and Sweat-ies
Just wike doggos, fopsy only sweat thwough deir paws. In the wild, deir beans are constantwy touching diwt, moisture, and pwey. When deir sweat meets tiny bactewia it can smells "savowy, sawty, ow fewmented"—but it’s awmost always ovewpowewed by dat intense "wild" musk!

A wittle note: If u have a pet foxy fwend, be vewy cawefuw! Deir paw scent can get way, WAY mowe intense duwing "wut" ow bweeding season. Dose hormones make deir chemicaw output go *poof*!

Would you wike me to describe any othew foxy facts in this cutesy way for u? UwU
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>tfw no fox oil
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would your life improve if a family of foxes colonized your backyard?
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>>5085162
Lets all talk like this for the entirety of the next fox thread.
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>>5085191
>No fox sniffers here
>>5085193
>None here either, I think we-
>>5085296
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>>5085191
>>5085193
Me and the boys looking for who asked.
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>>5085333
Me. I asked for your paw, m'vulpes.
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Are we all excited for Foxmas?
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>>5085355
More like season's breedings
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>>5085359
Oh so it's okay for FOXES to sniff fox chest fluff but not for me?
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Do foxes have retractable claws?
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>>5085382
Just another reason we (I) need to investigate their paws.
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hello, CEO of fox sniffing here. i've decided to grant all of foxgen an unlimited fox sniffing pass. merry christmas.
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Smooches for all my foxes
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>>5085382
Only halfway in, and the arctic Fox can’t even do that.
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This dad joke fox meme was created by the US government.
https://www.fws.gov/media/no-sun
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>>5085372
>austrailian fox
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I did some digital 'reconnaissance' of Zao Fox Village, and based on photos and videos, found several places I can hide until they close and the workers go home.

One spot to hide is here (pic) under the fox shrine in the area behind the ladder...
or here https://youtu.be/92wtDKCtOiU?t=77 in the gap under the deck (there's several gaps like this)...
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...or inside one of these long pipes, of which there are several, so I'll find one that's oriented parallel to the path.

In case they catch me, I'll show them CEO of fox sniffing's sniffing pass here >>5085431
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>>5085802
>The foxes here do get a bit quirky at night
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>>5085802
>>5085805
Yeah, I'm sure those places smell great too.
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>>5085741
Oh geez, I hope it doesn't get deported, or worse, killed.
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Would foxes even celebrate birthdays? Seeing how they're all born within around 2 weeks of each other. All northern hemisphere red foxes are Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19), and all Australian red foxes are Cancers (June 21-July22).

>>5085874
Anon's joke was that the fox was upside down, like Australia.

>>5085382
Nope. Why would they? They need those claws to dig.

>>5085227
Yes, but the family of foxes' life would improve even more. Lovingly baked warm meals every day, and blankets and pillows for them.
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>'the fuck do you want
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>>5085546
pretty sure the mature one is a mom fox
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>>5085898
Is this General Rubbish
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>>5085802
That's extremely dangerous because the foxes get a lot more active after the sun goes down, but the foxes are not your primary concern. Shit gets super fucking cold at night in Miyagi and you'll be dealing with temperatures well into the negatives that humans cannot survive unless wearing extremely thick clothing, but foxes can because floof.
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I'm not one to judge if anon wants to end up as fox droppings
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>>5085926
GIVE IT BACK
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What should I animate foxes doing
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>>5085936
Engaging in copulation, wherein both are male, the top is a red fox, and the bottom is a gray fox.
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What's that? Data harvesting time?

Thank you for your participation, /fox/.
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>>5085962
hot (I knew I should have said no sexo)
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>>5085966
I still got a bingo although I am probably a lot less degenerate compared to a lot of people here
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>>5085966
I'm not sure about how to interpret the spirit of top right
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>>5085979
Faggots who communicate using those 4 words or similar stupid sounds either verbally or by typing / text
Both top left are very similar of "I'm the chosen fox person" or "I'm a fox stuck in a human body" bullshit.
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>>5085979
I need to increase my fox appreciation it seems
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>>5085966
>knows the word for fox in at leat 5 languages
fox, vos, Fuchs, renard, azeri, kitsune, huli, roka, kettu, rav, raev, rev, terrianiaq, lis, zorro, raposa, goupil, lomri, shual, thaleb, volpe, vulpes, alopex, yeou
off the top of my head i know the word for fox in 24 languages.
>mlem blep boop
please no. i don't even own any fox plushes
>can name at least 10 fox species
i know all 22
>furry
i'd say no, because i dislike 99.99% of the art and irl foxes are way better than the small amount of anthro art i do like
>appreciates [...] cats [...]
no, i dislike cats. (purely due to /an/. i never gave them much thought before /an/'s anti-cat threads)
>browser
only because i started using ff when internet explorer was the only other option, and i don't like chrome
>i am a fox
no, and don't want to be one either. i'm happy being a lowly human, with foxes being superior and better than me. a slave knows his place
>favorite color is red
hey that's vulpovulponormativity. not everyone's fave species is the red fox
>browses /trash/
no because /an/fox/ is the only good place on all of 4chan
>vore
sure, because i like foxes happy and well fed, but i like paws more

i like how >>5085979 shaded the unapplicable boxes, so i did that too. i have 3 full lines
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There is this problem I've had with so much of the fetishizing in these threads but never quite had the words to put it rightly.

“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”

It's not just language, it's experience, too. Knowledge. The limits of one's perception are defined by many a thing, language is just one of them but sits high among it's peers. Words don't just carry definitions, but implications, concepts. If you don't have a word for it, you can't conceptualize it. If all you've played is checkers, never heard of chess, you can't imagine immediately how a piece can move in the shape of an L. The unspoken rulesets of the language you were given to use may even exclude concepts. The way english is constructed, if a vase is broken, blame is assigned (X broke the vase) whereas in something like mandarin or cantonese it is "X caused the vase to break itself".

The (in)ability of a human being to understand another kind of being is defined by the human perception of existence. By culture. The points of reference humans have for sensations, events, experiences, concepts.

It is maybe not the fault of the people who come here and obsess morbidly about what they project onto foxes through the limits of the modern human experience, but that doesn't change the fact it's not sufficient to make an accurate recognition of what the experience of another being is.

You can look at these pictures all day. Interpret them as you wish. But that will never mean by itself that you have ever actually Seen the Fox. Witnessed it. Known it. There's nuances you'll always miss, see things that aren't there. Imagine not knowing about the concept of hell and seeing a heironymous bosch painting. Or only knowing lust, sexual drive through a movie like hellraiser or hostel.

It is maybe best some of you ask yourselves if you have the right tools to continue as you have.
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>>5085987
I saw a fox once. https://0x0.st/KMaq.mp4

There's another more important limitation of language. You can only communicate concepts that the listener already knows or try to use those as pointers to a new concept. We can talk about happiness but I can't communicate to you the whole nature of happiness *for me*.
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>>5085987
Didn't Wittgenstein end up rejecting his Tractatus Logicus Philosophicus in his later years and arguing against his own earlier points?
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>>5085994
And this is a sentient being problem, not just a human problem.
Even if some species developed a device that could directly stream inputs from others' brains, it would still be interpreted through the unique mind of the user.
There's no way to actually be another being, and therefore no way to know them in their wholeness.
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>>5085979
I'm not the author but I believe it asks whether you use (any of) those words (the author has designated as "reddit"). No idea if that's the author self-reporting on their (lack of) age and/or terminal /pol/-brainrot status.
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>>5085983
whoops should have edited the original
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Is the fox smell thing really that bad? I feel like it has to be overblown. Im not saying they don't stink, but you'd get used to it. Like i had a cat growing up that would piss and/or mark things everywhere. Sure when you step into the house, it reeks of piss, but after some time, you dont notice it anymore; sure whenever you leave and come back the piss smell hits you again, but it is what it is.

Like im sure if you go to india, it's gonna stink, but for the locals or people who have been there for a while, it's a "yeah thats just how it smells here"
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>>5086021
5 whole lines. you're winning so far.
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>>5086026
I hope they don't smell as bad as cat piss
and people don't generally get used to that, at least I don't, wtf
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>>5085966
That was a very creative and fun idea you had for a conversation starter to break the dullness around here and get people talking.

>>5085968
That fox looks like it's being forced to smile because for the hundredth time today.

>>5085926
Perhaps that was the plan all along.

>>5085918
I think there's a 'rule of threes' where you can survive 30 days without food, 3 weeks without water, 3 days below freezing, or three minutes without air
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>>5086029
I thought it was 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water.
It's definitely not 3 weeks without water.
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>>5086029
a hungry Japanese fox posted this
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>>5085966
Do you count as a vorefag if you don't want to be swallowed whole by a fox for deviant pleasure but you're okay with them sinking their teeth into you and eating your yummy flesh
Does maw enjoyment factor into this
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>>5086067
We call that hard vore.
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>>5086036
That sounds more accurate.
And I would also add a new one: "30 hours without social media" :LaughingCryingEmoji:
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>>5085966
I want to clarify that normal foxes are too stinky and dumb (too much animal) for me to want to fuck one irl. But same as I have to admit that not wanting to be an anthro myself isn't a defense against being called a furry given I 'engage' with so much of their 'media', I also have to admit that not wanting to fuck a fox IRL isn't a defense against being called a zoophile given I'm so fixated on fictional people with fox features. So I filled in the sheet honestly.
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>>5086091
>not wanting to fuck a fox IRL isn't a defense against being called a zoophile
>some degree of sexual attraction to real life foxes
So... no?
I wouldn't fuck a fox IRL even if they weren't stinky and dumb. Then again, if they weren't dumb, wouldn't they just be sapient people? This is why I don't like hypotheticals, because they don't make any sense.
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>>5084691
>Anybody got an aspirin? I think I got a cold.
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>>5086091
They are too small for that anyway.
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>>5086104
That is one reason why foxes should be bigger.
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>>5086091
>>5086023
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>>5085983
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>>5085974
What species is your fursona?
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>>5086109
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>>5086109
Thanks for posting the original of this meme that I saw a long time ago
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>>5086109
I don't have a fursona, I just create a lot of anthropomorphic fox characters.
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>>5086028
>people don't generally get used to that, at least I don't, wtf
Hey man, if you've tried a couple things (random shit from petsmart that they say to spray on things to stop cats from pissing on em, which do not fucking work) and they dont work, what are you gonna do? Get rid of the cat? Nah, you cope. You see those videos or images of hoarder houses or third world shitholes, or put yourself in the shoes of a garbage man or some guy who works at a landfill and think "imagine the smell", the poor bastards living there don't have to, they're living it, and at some point it is what it is amd you carry on with life because what else can you do
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>>5086109
I don't have a fursona I have an imaginary girlfriend which is sadder actually but it helps me cope.
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>>5086122
If I have a choice, and there's genuinely no way to solve the problem otherwise, then yes I would get rid of the cat before spending the next 10 years living in a place full of cat piss.
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>>5086011
Wouldn't know, wouldn't immediately care.
The logic still licks and is evident enough in the variances across just the human race and how the limits of one person's unquestioned experience differs to another.
That's just people. It's not even something as familiar but different as a dog or cat.

>>5086019
Exactly. The wholeness. The full haecciety of a fox's existence.
It's almost completely foreign, unique from the existence of me, you, anyone that could be here.
Seeing the way some wax dickosophical and see foxes through the lens of their sex drives, it's... Disappointing. I'm so used to it now I can't really have a stronger reaction than that, but I have to stop myself from correcting it so much of the time.
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>>5086133
I think that sex drive is a valid part of consciousness to attempt to know a thing through.
But our consciousness is very broad, and we should use all of it. All our senses, and all the parts of our minds. And knowing that our mind's concepts and images are rich, but reality is much deeper than we can ever know; and that should inspire awe and wonder.
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>>5086180
forgot pic
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What's a good reply/comeback when you encounter someone asking (ugh) 'but what does the fox say'? (it's been 12 years since that song was relevant but i still constantly see this comment)
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>>5086193
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hs1OajjbsSo
A link to a fox making cute noises while doing fox things.
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>>5086109
Aside from the obvious I like otters.
They will inherit the earth.
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>>5085984
You should spend time with animals instead of listening to /an/ console warriors.
If you listened to some people here you'd hate foxes too.
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>>5086197
I literally eat like this.
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>>5086197
Hearing that little critter crunch through a deer's ribs is actually a little bit intimidating. I didn't know they could do that.
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>>5086193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBnydkO7TU
https://youtu.be/2V6Aji1Brnc?t=182
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypaoafQwtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utdm4L4ZIUA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUIWsWdMAGU

What >>5086197 said but with riot videos
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>>5086193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6YChdEmLYs
That meme doesn't bother me desu because it reminds me of better times.
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I saw a fox outside today when I put some seeds for birds, cute little fella
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Ran across this in image search. It amused me.
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>>5085966
Got it
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>>5086455
Two rows, but at least you're more normal than most here. With the spiritual + otherkin stuff, maybe you're the shinto temple guy.
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Merry foxmas!!
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>>5085966
Huh, barely a bingo? I would have expected more. I don't think about cats or dogs much, but sure, pointy eared dogs are fine enough to meet the mark.
>>5086471
Shinto temple anon might have been me? There were several fo/x/ posters a thread ago, but I'm not otherkin coded
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>Oh no, it's the Conformity Police! Everyone, quick, make your most average foxpost!

Uhh, erm... Foxes stink and make god-awful pets.

>*pssst* Is he gone yet?
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>>5086496
I need to make one of these for the horse thread
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>>5086496
Vore?
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Here's my hard vore fantasy/plan - tell me what you guys think. I want to be entirely eaten by my own pet red fox, over the course of about 2.5 months (if the fox eats 1kg of meat per day), but I'd need someone else's help. We'd start by cutting off one of my limbs, and cutting up my meat into easy-to-eat pieces for the fox, and grinding up my limb bones so the fox can eat those too. And I'd lovingly feed my meat and bone paste from my limbs to my pet fox. After my 4 limbs are gone, we'd be down to cutting off my ears, nose, tongue, and skin for the fox to eat. Then, for me at least, the coup-de-grâce climax I've been truly waiting for will come: I'd put my head through a hole in the table and my partner would cut off the top of my skull, exposing my brain, and there's a mirror in front of my face, and I'd get to watch as my pet fox eats my live brain. True bliss, my conciousness disappearing in chunks, as chunks of my brain disappear down my fox's throat. This is the most beautiful death I can imagine. After I'm dead my partner would butcher up my body and grind my bones to paste and keep feeding it to our pet fox. Eventually nothing will be left of me. My entire human body and earthly existence will have been eaten by a fox and passed through that fox's digestive system. The only case ever of an entire adult human being eaten by a fox. That's what I want.
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>>5086539
Whoops looks like that's all the time we have for that discussion, we'll see you in the next thread

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>>5084033
>ywn experience this



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