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[cosmo]

http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=51070&videoChannel=4

Man's new best friend

Cropper is the perfect pet -- friendly, loyal, and he likes a cuddle. But Cropper is no typical Man's Best Friend: he is a fox.

In Britain foxes are commonly regarded as pests, rummaging through rubbish and killing farmyard animals. But not this particular fox, Cropper the fox behaves more like a dog.

He allows himself to be stroked, carried and taken for walks.

Cropper was found outside a hairdressers in Kent, England. He was badly injured after a fight with a dog and had a disease that affected his memory.

His owner, Mike Trowler nursed him back to health and gained his trust and friendship.

[cosmo]

Hunted: The Cruel Sport Of Fox Hunting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eS6XZKj2DU

[cosmo]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0321_060321_tyco_fox.html

Carolina Mystery Beast Is a Rare Abnormal Fox, Experts Say
Maryann Mott
for National Geographic News

March 21, 2006
A mystery animal is foraging in the grassy fields around a North Carolina company.

[venus]

I could do with the company of a nice, friendly fox...

[cosmo]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0208_050208_foxes.html

Photo in the News: Baby Foxes Going to the Dogs

February 8, 2005�Young foxes, or kits, scamper in a cage in Siberia, Russia, where they are part of a 45-year research project to domesticate foxes. Each generation has been selectively bred for tameness�fearlessness and nonaggression toward humans. By now the foxes in the project behave like pet dogs, barking and wagging their tails at humans.

Also like pet dogs, the domesticated foxes can "read" human cues (pointing, for example) much better than their wild cousins or even tame chimpanzees, according to a new study published today in Current Biology. The study authors call such behavior social intelligence. They say its appearance in domesticated foxes may help us better understand how intelligence developed in humans and other animals.

[cosmo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6701395.stm
Performance artist to eat corgi
The Queen is famously associated with corgis
A performance artist says he will eat a corgi live on a London radio show in protest at a hunt led by Prince Philip.

Mark McGowan says the meal is a protest at the alleged mistreatment of a fox which was shot during the hunt on the Queen's Sandringham estate in January.

[The Bobster]

Alright already, we got the joke. We thought it was gonna be something about Bill O'Reilly or something ... you can stop bumping your own thread now. It was good for a laugh, but it's been most a week, ferchrissakes ... hehe.

[cosmo]

I beg your pardon? I am not trying to outfox you.

I am seriously spreading the message of man's inhumanity to fox. Fox is man's best friend.

[cosmo]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187529,00.html
FOXNEWS.COM
American Hostage Tom Fox Killed In Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq � The body of the only American among four Christian peace activists kidnapped late last year was found in west Baghdad with gunshots to his head and chest, Iraqi police said Saturday.

Tom Fox, 54, from Clear Brook, Va., was the fifth American hostage killed in Iraq.

The FBI verified that the body was that of Fox, and his family was notified, U.S. State Department spokesman Noel Clay said in Washington.

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Tom's Iraq blog is his sad and informative legacy. His last entry was written the day before he was abducted:

WHY ARE WE HERE?
"If I understand the message of God, his response to that question is that we are to take part in the creation of the Peaceable Realm of God. As I survey the landscape here in Iraq, dehumanization seems to be the operative means of relating to each other. We are here to root out all aspects of dehumanization that exists within us. We are here to stand with those being dehumanized by oppressors and stand firm against that dehumanization. We are here to stop people, including ourselves, from dehumanizing any of God's children, no matter how much they dehumanize their own souls."

Tom told his friends that if he was captured or killed they should not take revenge on those responsible.