Inari and Kitsune the Fennec foxes!

[Shell195]

BeautifulDont forget to keep us updated on their progress

[Pouchie]

The foxes look adorable.


I love the names by the way - any story behind them?

[George_Milllett]

Kitsune is Japanese for fox IIRC correctly not sure about Inari. Though I think it is the name of the compainion from Firefly/Serenity

[Elina]

Kitsune are Japanese fox-spirits. They are said to be able to take the form of a charming woman and a fox-form. They are ageless, being spirits, however, they are not immortal; they can live a life span of 900 years and gain a new tail for each hundred years, living up to a life that obtains 9 tails.

Inari is the Japanese kami of fertility, rice, agriculture, foxes, industry and worldly success and one of the principal kami of Shinto and uses foxes as messengers. More then one third of Shinto shrines in Japan are dedicated to Inari.

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Elina

[Elina]

First thing this morning I had quite a shock as Kitsune was dominance humping Inari's head. . . . Confused me a bit .

Last night I played with them with one of Harry and Elspeth's fave toys; a 500ml coke bottle which has been washed out and had various holes of various sizes punched in it which had about 20 living meal worms and 5 locusts in it.
It was so funny to watch as they were totally avoiding the bottle until a locust climbed out of the bottle and sat nose to nose with Kitsune . Kit was mostly into hitting the bottle for worms where as Inari was running and jumping all over the place after his locust. The very best bit was when a locust landed on my toe and Inari totally over shot with his jump and landed on my knee and he just had this confused look on his face.

So yes they are settling in really well thus far, really having allot of fun with them .

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Elina

[Rum_Kitty]

They are beautiful! Forgive me for not having read the whole thread but do they have an enclosure...I read about the sleeping crate bit but do they just run around your house during the day?

[Elina]

At present they have their own bedroom to play in during the day (it is 100% fox safe don't worry and is filled with toys, a sand pit, multiple places for them to turn into their den etc). I was putting them in their crate for bedtime as I do for Harry and Elspeth but they (unlike Harry and Elspeth) do not have a tendency to open doors. No Inari and Kitsune do not run around the house during the day yet but when they are settled if Harry and Elspeth like them they will, if not their room is more then big enough for them and they will still get LOADS of TLC.
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Elina

[Nix]

Elina they are gorgeous. Sallie was texting me when she saw them before you picked them up and teasing me about it as she knows how much I love fennecs! If you ever need a fennec babysitter I'll happily sit up all night and play with them!

[Rum_Kitty]

Cool. Was just curious as to whether they were the sort of critter you could let run around or if they need to be kept in an enclosure. They are beeyootiful. I really love the look of fennecs but I know nothing about them...I love seeing them at the zoo near me they're soooo cute.

[Nicky10]

so jealous. They're gorgeous