We’ve heard about the This magical oasis of cute foxes is called Zao Fox Village, and it’s located in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture. Zao Fox Village is one of the best places in Japan to go and see foxes. “I’m sure they don’t want people to know how bad the conditions are for the foxes.”While the open-air space is the main attraction of Fox Village, not all of its animal inhabitants are allowed to roam freely. “In the wild, I’ve seen six foxes living close to each other, but I don’t think you see more than that.

We’ve heard about the bunny island and cat island, but there’s also a Fox Village, where six different types of foxes, including red foxes and the rare silver foxes, romp and play together in a battle for your attention (and probably for your food, too).. Even in Japan, 2 days before actually going, I wanted to skip it. Siphoned off from the central space, there’s a hospital area where sick and injured foxes in wire cages are separated from the general population. When Anna Davis planned her trip to Sendai, a city to the northeast of Tokyo on Honshu Island, she knew she had to stop at As a longtime animal lover, she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit a place that boasted over 100 fluffy foxes roaming freely in a natural preserve tucked away in the mountains.Davis, who volunteers with a wildlife center in New Jersey, hoped Fox Village would be similar to the animal sanctuaries she experienced in the U.S. I know they CAN be domesticated, and they are the perfect blend of cat and dog.That's exactly what I was thinking! “It smelled like feces, and the heat just seemed to make it worse.”Davis walked a path inside Fox Village’s 18,000-square-foot open-air space known as “hotel street.” On either side of the path, piles of stacked wooden planks served as rest areas for the free-roaming foxes or held wire cages with less docile animals.“The ones that were kept in cages had very little room to turn around and display natural behaviors,” Davis noted. You really can’t take a bad picture of these guys. “Flies were buzzing around the pile of mush, and it just looked awful.”Some foxes followed the tourists around the enclosure, pulling at their clothes and begging for treats.

Check your inbox, and click on the link to activate your account.Apparently, Japan is covered in magical and irresistibly cute animal sanctuaries. You can train them but you do need to watch them at first (same with shiba inu though).There's a Russian experiment where they bread foxes to be domesticated like cats and dogs, not tamed, but domesticated and meant for homes.The domesticated foxes you see usually have a mental issue that makes them unfit for living in the wild, and require special care.To complete the subscription process, please click the link in the email we just sent you. They "say" many things.Do you think that it would be bad if I just borrowed a fox and never give it back?well they stink, they urinate everywhere, they are hostile, and they love to damage things please think more before getting oneI love foxes. For 100 yen (or about 85 US cents), visitors are provided with food, but because the foxes are not domesticated, they are cautioned against hand-feeding them or bringing small children into the Fox Island.As is the case in the West, foxes in Japan are considered to be sly tricksters. These aggressive begging and fighting behaviors are a symptom of overcrowding, and living in a mid-to-high-stress environment, Rob Laidlaw, executive director of In Japan, foxes primarily inhabit sparsely populated mountainous areas, or the outskirts of villages. “I am seriously concerned that young foxes are displayed before weaning to attract visitors, as Japan does not have any standards on displaying young animals.”“Foxes, wolves and coyotes all experience that learning curve with one or both parents, and when an animal is removed from its parent or proper social context, you’ve got a very distorted type of social development in these animals,” Laidlaw said.“The reason you take them away from their parents is that you are usually trying to take the wild out of them, make them more attractable and used to being handled,” Laidlaw added. With dirt floors and only a crude wooden box for privacy, the pens are a far cry from the cozy dens where wild foxes spend their first formative weeks.Typically, a fox kit won’t emerge from his den to play until he is at least “I am concerned how long the young foxes are separated with their mothers,” Nakano explained. “However, this environment … can give wrong information to visitors.”Davis isn't the only visitor to be shocked by the environment.