The Quick Red Fox Learns Sign Language
Mark Passmore, Apex
According to the (UK) Daily Mail, Millie, a red fox, was found when she was six weeks old, being chased down a country road in North Devon, England by three boys. A family scooped up the traumatized canine and soon discovered that the malnourished pup was deaf. Unable to care for her, the family brought Millie to rescue expert Beth Tyler-King. When the family asked if she could take in the fox cub, Tyler-King was ecstatic. "Would I?" Tyler-King blogged at Still on the Track. "I practically hugged her! It has been my life-long dream to hand-rear a cub ever since I played with three of them at an animal sanctuary many moons ago."
As exciting as it was for Tyler-King to hand-raise a fox cub, Millie was even more special due to her deafness. As soon as Tyler-King, who herself lost 95 percent of her hearing at age 4, found out Millie was deaf she began signing to the fox, she tells Paw Nation. Millie surprisingly seemed to understand and even understands facial expressions Tyler-King tells us.
You Say.…?
- button.wow
- button.lol
- button.aww
- button.poop
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