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I have always wanted one of these foxes, but alas being in Australia would make it impossible.

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You might want to think twice if you've never smelled fox urine.

(Dog|Cat) urine, on the other hand: a delightful bouquet.

Fox eclipses dog/cat by many orders of magnitude. You can smell it from quite a distance.

I have smelt fox urine before and while not great, it is not horrific. Apparently the tame ones don't smell as bad, but it would defiantly be something you would want to breed out.

It was a weapon when we I was in school. They might want to think twice to the power of some large number. (evil grin)

Why do you think it's impossible? My understanding is that all of the foxes sold as pets are sterilized so there wouldn't be a risk of introducing a foreign species.

Bringing in a dog from overseas is a 6 month and very expensive exercise. I very much doubt that AQIS is going to let me bring in a known noxious pest.

Edit. In most of Australia it is illegal to keep a pet fox, but in NSW you can if they are desexed and not released back into the wild [1]. I still doubt AQIS will let me bring one in.

1. http://sydneyfoxtails.tumblr.com

On the other hand, cats are allowed to travel freely throughout Australia, including to and from Tasmania, and yet we can't keep our native animals as pets. I'm super keen for a domesticated Possum breed, or a domesticated Tasmanian Devil breed.

Yes it is a shame we can't keep native mammals as pets. I would love a pet sugar glider. Americans can keep them, but not us [1].

1. http://www.news.com.au/world/australias-sugar-gliders-at-the...

A friend got a special permit and re-habbed injured native animals in his home. At any one time he often had baby kangaroos, wallabys, koalas, etc. They're all extremely cute. Bottle feeding a kangaroo in a hanging sock is fun.

When they're old enough he releases them back into the wild.

Australia is hostile to foreign animals. There was this really absurd example from a few months ago:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/13/johnny-depps-dogs-a...

What is so absurd about that? Its good management of the natural resources of Australia, to protect them from invasive species ..

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