My daughter‘s birthday is in March and we live near Sedona Arizona. She is obsessed with foxes and says she wants to run her own sanctuary for foxes one day. I am looking for somewhere in Arizona where I can take her so she can see them up close, and learn about them. I’m not talking about holding a fox because I do know that isn’t in the fox’s best interest, but I am looking for somewhere where she can talk to somebody who takes care of foxes and see them up close and have it be an educational experience as well as making her entire year because when I say obsessed, I truly mean she talks about them from the moment she wakes up to the moment she closes her eyes essed, I truly mean she talks about them from the moment she wakes up to the moment she closes her eyes. Can anyone help me out with that? I’m willing to travel, but it has to be by car.

So here’s what happened. I was walking my dog at about 9pm tonight and this foxy individual was crossing the street in front of us. My dog is medium-sized (16kg), female (spayed, so not in heat). The fox stopped in the middle of street and just stared at us. Normally they go on their way. My dog was very interested, but not barking or showing aggression. I’m a chicken and got a little freaked out because this fox was not running away as we got closer, so I started to walk back. The fox followed us until I got to a dead end by some brightly lit houses, and just sat there, staring at us again. I ended up calling my partner to come pick us up. I don’t know about fox behavior and I didn’t want to risk my dog having an altercation with this fox.

This particular fox looks very healthy and plump, and adult sized. We saw a total of 4 foxes tonight! Do any of you have any thoughts as to why it was following us? Was it curious and possibly wanted to play with my dog? Did it want food from me?

Playing around with coloured pencils

Just had to share

The subreddit may return to a more-restricted status at any time at the r/Fox moderator team’s discretion, but hopefully it’s able to grow in a positive, at least somewhat substantive way.

Edit: A detail I forgot to include above—Crossposts are not allowed to be posted in r/Fox at this time.

A friend in PA found a pup whose mother had been hit by a car. He took him in and the pup domesticated my friend. He doesn’t run amuck in my friend’s house but he does have substantial latitude compared to the average cat or dog.

#Announcement of some changes to r/Fox, effective immediately:

##Only approved submitters are able to post or comment on r/Fox and in an effort and to actually, oddly, have a positive impact on the—from what I can tell, at least—legitimate fox communities on Reddit, r/Fox now discourages fox content and encourages other topics.

Which other topics? Well, they depends on if anyone comes up with anything unique/interesting/different/whatever enough to not be pointless or redundant to post here. Until then/for now, I suppose random miscellany I come across and share just to have something here every once in a while. I hope to be pleasantly surprised on approved submitters, but we’ll see!

##Context

Over the past ~1.5 years since becoming moderator of this then-non-actively moderates subreddit I have I have attempted to get helpful feedback/ideas regarding making changes in response to some worrying trends.

A little over a year ago in a meta post by me I wrote:

In the past two months there has been just under one post per day. The subscriber count continues to slowly creep up, but we aren’t really building much of a community.

The only thing that’s really seemed to go up with traffic has been the amount of spam I have to remove/people I have to ban. As this subreddit gets a bit larger but maintains low post volume and activity levels, it becomes an easier target for spammers and karma farming.

Since then I have moved all posts to manual review, but the volume of trash described above has only risen and I’ve realized we’re at a point where all we do is confuse people who would be better of one of the legit fox subs—which, I’m not a member of any of, but I know this is not the place to post if you want a community discussion or to get a question answered—so the few legitimate posters who unfortunately wind up here would be better off not being able to post here at all to encourage them to keep looking for a fox subreddit to post in likely finding one of the legit ones, rather than to find this sub first because it’s “r/Fox,” post here and and be done, because if that happens, they then wind up with a shitty posting experience and also miss out on becoming aware of the legit fox subreddits that would’ve given them a better experience.

Aside from those few legitimate users who we probably have a net-negative impact on, here are the other types of posts and comments—representing the overwhelmingly majority of them all—r/Fox gets/that I filter out manually and don’t even deserve the two seconds it takes to remove:

• Spam/bots
• Karma farming
• Self-promotion
• Crossposts that blew up wherever they were found and are pointless
• Reposts from other fox subs that are already the correct subs for them to be in.
• Shitty fox posts posted here since the legit fox subreddits would remove or heavily downvote them.
• Reposts from here that are pointless
• Fox posts that should be posted to other fox subs (including posts by the few legitimate users described)

If anyone can manage to come up with a post they want to put here that wouldn’t be better suited for another sub and isn’t trash like that of the list above, send me a ModMail message about it (obviously, since non—approved submitters are now unable to post or comment) Like, anything—ideally non-fox content—since the well is pretty damn dry and the proverbial river was, in this case, appropriately rerouted to the related population centers.

I’m just going to start posting stuff and continuing to keep tabs on the mod queue and ModMail and we’ll see where it goes, if anywhere.

If anyone who takes issue with this, I question your sincerity since I’ve been floating this and other ideas and asking for useful input for more than 1 year and gotten nothing of use or anyone who seemed interested in helping whatsoever. I’ve been open to anything within reason, but no ever came up with anything of value potential-wise and the attempts to exploit this ghost town subreddit have only risen in frequency, I think mostly because its short, base descriptive name assures it of at least some views, which isn’t the case with most subs.

I think it’s time to try a bit of a reset and Hinkie-ish rebuild.

Best wishes to all!

1. Wow, some of y’all on here actually have foxes? /jelly!

2. Heard this weird bird-like sound today outside my window, like wow-wow-wow - looked outside to see a beautiful red fox. When I opened the blinds to take a pic he was gone but then I went outside and still heard him running around and “barking”... then I saw him running in circles in a neighbor’s yard for a minute or two then he was gone... since it was about 10:30 am do you think this was abnormal (rabies), or just him being a little crazy like a, well, fox?

We have a bit of woods around and dogs, didn’t know if I needed to worry :)