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Here's a story about Woody the fox, and Yaroslav, his loving owner. Woody almost ended up on someone's collar: he was raised on a fur farm and was destined to be slain for profit. In 2015, Yaroslav showed up and got him out of there. But he didn't go full vigilante, as in Russia, owning a fur farm is somewhat legal in some places.
But once Yaroslav saw Woody, he just couldn't let that scenario happen. He talked to the owners of the fur farm and the owners agreed to give the fox to him, on the condition that he'd pay them the price of what they expected to get for his fur. Yaroslav didn't hesitate, and bought Woody out.
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Wesna Klimesch 5 years ago
I love the videos with Woody. No animal should suffer on fur farms! 'Thank you Yaroslav!
Jim Takahashi 5 years ago
The whole fur industry must be crushed, and all fur wearers must be disdained and hated.
During his first days with Yaroslav, Woody was hesitant and didn't want to come into contact with any person. Poor guy must've been very stressed by the quick shift of his surroundings. But after a week or so, Yaroslav found a common language with Woody, and they started to become friends. The fox spent his first month in Yaroslav's home due to quarantine, since foxes may carry diseases.
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puppylover895 5 years ago
please dont down vote me for this ( i am not calling the fox fat )
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After a while, Yaroslav built a special kennel for Woody to spend his time outdoors. Woody, being the mischievous fox that he is, burrowed many tunnels and got out from time to time. But Yaroslav stressed that Woody can't sustain himself and live in the woods, since he hadn't learned all of the crucial skills due to having lived on a fur farm in his formative months.
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puppylover895 5 years ago
*sigh i.am.so.hot.and.tired.i.need.to.take.a.nap.ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Now, Woody is well-fed and happy with his life. He eats only natural products like meat, cottage cheese, fruits, and vegetables. His favorite food is a fruit called persimmon. It's important to stress how surprising it is that a fox found a happy life while being domesticated, since they're not exactly domestic animals in any shape or form. Yaroslav says it's not as simple as it looks. He says that it's like owning a disobedient cat and a dog all in one. In any case, Woody and the internet thank him for giving the fox a new life.
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Heather Reynolds Atwood 5 years ago
WHY IS FUR STILL LEGALLY "PRODUCED" IN THIS WORLD????? I get it when we didn't have synthetics but, my God, it's the 21st century! OUTLAW FUR EVERYWHERE!!!!!!
Christine Suarez 5 years ago
Why not wait for their death before getting the fur? They can get them microchipped or something to track them. There's got to be a way...
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Mary Dellenbusch 5 years ago (edited)
Animals should never be used ever for fur! They are sentient beings. They feel and love like us but show it in a different way. If you have to have a coat kill a human and use it's skin! It can be dyed, trimmed, and stretched to any design you want! There are plenty of animal abusers out there that need to be culled!
Manel Dias 5 years ago
No need to wear another living beings Skin or Fur, simply to cover up the Ugly bodies of backward, unkind subhumans. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE DO NOT NEED TO ADD ANOTHER CREATURES SKIN OR FUR TO THEIR BODY, BECAUSE THEY THEMSELVES ARE BEAUTIFUL. This wearing Fur & Skin drama is happening always with the people who has got money BUT UGLY AS EVER.
Janine Hunt-Jackson 5 years ago
You tell that fox to get right out of his fur coat!! And get rid of any blood diamonds while you're at it!
Janine Hunt-Jackson 5 years ago
PLEASE forgive my other remark. When I clicked on this series of pictures I missed the part about this poor baby and any others who are in fur farms. We don't really need (and never did just for fashion!) real fur.
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Nicole Tomme 5 years ago
This would be a perfect shot for that Japanese artist who makes funny sculptures of animals that look like funny shapes in photos.
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Isabella 5 years ago
First of all - learn HOW MUCH things and money do you need to properly care for one.
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Nicole Tomme 5 years ago
How could anyone want to kill this baby for something stupid like fashion? (Not that fashion is always stupid but fur is a nope.)
Diana Dodd 5 years ago
Nah ... you had it right the first time ... a lot of fashion is stupid!
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Ana Vaquer Perez 5 years ago
How much self constraint did you need before you booped the nose? *boops* none
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Dj beat breaker 5 years ago
Its the stare. Foxes eyes look closer to humans but you see them most times nearly squinting.
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Bill Bendick 5 years ago
I wonder what kind of toothpaste he uses. I think he floss's as well. lol
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Bill Bendick 5 years ago
Your dad sure knows how to take a beautiful picture. Of course he has a handsome subject !
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Diane Templeton 5 years ago
Stunning Beautiful boy!! The fur trade should be banned!!!!. These gorgeous photos hopefully will draw attention to how awful and cruel this trade is!
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TheFakeSteveRogers 5 years ago
Good thang ya rescued him from the horrors and the slaughtering of the Fur Farm. OUTLAW DAMN FUR FARMS!
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GFSTaylor 5 years ago
Foxes are very beautiful, but I'm glad the owner points out that they are not recommended as pets. Sure, foxes like Woody can't be returned to the wild, and being a pet is better than being killed for fur, but sharing cute photos like this online only encourages people to start wanting them as pets. Once the demand is there, foxes will be bred or trapped to supply the market, often with sad consequences. Cute otters on the internet have lead to a rise in demand for pet otters. Most pet otters are wild-born, captured as cubs with their parents killed. The rest come from the otter equivalent of puppy mills, bred from animals kept in poor conditions, just to churn out litter after litter of pups. Neither foxes, not otters, are suitable as pets, especially as indoor pets.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
You are right. I'm so tired of these "hedgehog, fox...i had to take care about is now a pet" trend. It's sick! I was downvoted a lot for saying the same things here years ago, as a behavior scientist, it's an improvement, you got upvotes. Maybe it's changing.
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Red 5 years ago
I was about to say 61 pictures was to much but then i saw the fox and fell in love ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Denise Melek 5 years ago (edited)
Can BP please stop promoting russians or any people buying wild animals and keeping them as pets and using them to boost their Instagram?! Yeah, this one didnt get killed. How about the others? How about engaging and investing in animal rights instead? Now people go Like "oh, so cuuuuute, i want one, too!"Probably the same wearing fur.
Vanessa Lapato 5 years ago
I get ypur point that seeing these posts might influence some people to want a pet fox (which they probably won''t ultimately get, once they learn more about what's involved).. At the same time,, it might influence a lot MORE people to understand that foxes are beautiful, intelligent animals with personalities and feelings, and we shouldn't be supporting industries that raise and kill them for their fur. So there's an upside to those posts too.
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ArhomR 5 years ago
They seem to have a loving bond. Beautiful to see the human take such good care of his charge.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
cassiushumanmother, you are so comfortable wearing fur, using everything - not wasting half a cow, one million of them every single hour; for unconscionable suffering of animals, destruction of our planet, and demise of humanity. - "Nothing will benefit health or increase chances of survival on this earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein --- "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will NEVER know HEALTH or PEACE. For as long as men massacre animals they WILL kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain CANNOT reap love and joy." - Pythagoras (570 -480 BC/BCE) Greek mathematician & philosopher. The problem is that men vastly reproduce before they kill themselves and each other, so it will take a "while" before they destroy our planet completely - human arrogance, ignorance, and apathy, don't ever blame animals for your own self destruction, all those deadly diseases, bacteria, viruses.
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Andrew McFarlane 5 years ago
God bless you for your compassion in saving this beautiful creature. All life is a miracle which deserves admiration and respect. I pray for the souls of those who could not be saved...
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
But they could be saved if only "good" people cared and would fight animal cruelty and destruction of our planet. Praying will do nothing for our planet, suffering animals, and us.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Did Woody get fixed? Does he respond to dogs as friends or foes? He's very beautiful.
GFSTaylor 5 years ago
Foxes are very beautiful, but I'm glad the owner points out that they are not recommended as pets. Sure, foxes like Woody can't be returned to the wild, and being a pet is better than being killed for fur, but sharing cute photos like this online only encourages people to start wanting them as pets. Once the demand is there, foxes will be bred or trapped to supply the market, often with sad consequences. Cute otters on the internet have lead to a rise in demand for pet otters. Most pet otters are wild-born, captured as cubs with their parents killed. The rest come from the otter equivalent of puppy mills, bred from animals kept in poor conditions, just to churn out litter after litter of pups. Neither foxes, not otters, are suitable as pets, especially as indoor pets.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
You are right. I'm so tired of these "hedgehog, fox...i had to take care about is now a pet" trend. It's sick! I was downvoted a lot for saying the same things here years ago, as a behavior scientist, it's an improvement, you got upvotes. Maybe it's changing.
Load More Replies... Red 5 years ago
I was about to say 61 pictures was to much but then i saw the fox and fell in love ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Denise Melek 5 years ago (edited)
Can BP please stop promoting russians or any people buying wild animals and keeping them as pets and using them to boost their Instagram?! Yeah, this one didnt get killed. How about the others? How about engaging and investing in animal rights instead? Now people go Like "oh, so cuuuuute, i want one, too!"Probably the same wearing fur.
Vanessa Lapato 5 years ago
I get ypur point that seeing these posts might influence some people to want a pet fox (which they probably won''t ultimately get, once they learn more about what's involved).. At the same time,, it might influence a lot MORE people to understand that foxes are beautiful, intelligent animals with personalities and feelings, and we shouldn't be supporting industries that raise and kill them for their fur. So there's an upside to those posts too.
Load More Replies... ArhomR 5 years ago
They seem to have a loving bond. Beautiful to see the human take such good care of his charge.
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
cassiushumanmother, you are so comfortable wearing fur, using everything - not wasting half a cow, one million of them every single hour; for unconscionable suffering of animals, destruction of our planet, and demise of humanity. - "Nothing will benefit health or increase chances of survival on this earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein --- "As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will NEVER know HEALTH or PEACE. For as long as men massacre animals they WILL kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain CANNOT reap love and joy." - Pythagoras (570 -480 BC/BCE) Greek mathematician & philosopher. The problem is that men vastly reproduce before they kill themselves and each other, so it will take a "while" before they destroy our planet completely - human arrogance, ignorance, and apathy, don't ever blame animals for your own self destruction, all those deadly diseases, bacteria, viruses.
Load More Replies... Andrew McFarlane 5 years ago
God bless you for your compassion in saving this beautiful creature. All life is a miracle which deserves admiration and respect. I pray for the souls of those who could not be saved...
Christina Uhlir 5 years ago
But they could be saved if only "good" people cared and would fight animal cruelty and destruction of our planet. Praying will do nothing for our planet, suffering animals, and us.
Load More Replies... Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Did Woody get fixed? Does he respond to dogs as friends or foes? He's very beautiful.
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