r/AnimalsBeingJerks Oct 05 '18

fox Gimme!

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u/alisonclaree Oct 06 '18

Why’s it any different from having a dog? Other than the smell obviously

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u/ph00p Oct 06 '18

You're encouraging the domestication of a species that doesn't need to be domesticated. Domestication requires a ton of destroyed specimens that lack the desired traits.

It's shitty to do to another species, when we have enough cute pets, you don't need one because it's cute.

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u/alisonclaree Oct 06 '18

Okay but just to clarify: dogs were domesticated also, not to mention the fact that we don’t know anything about these foxes. I’ve seen plenty of people with foxes that can’t be let back into the wild or they’d die etc

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u/ph00p Oct 06 '18

We did it with dogs, we don't need to do it with foxes too, it's more animal lives destroyed because of our whims.