A Chinese woman named Ms. Wang bought a puppy, a Japanese spitz and spent £140 on it. After raising it for months, The woman was shocked to realize that the ‘pet dog’ she has been raising is a fox. Talking to the Shanxi Network Television, Ms. Wang said she bought the animal from a pet shop in July last year.
She was feeding the pet, chicken breasts and dog food until the age of three months when it stopped eating the stuff. She said the dog stopped eating dog food and started to grow a long, fluffy tail after reaching three months old. Ms. Wang also noticed that her dog had never barked once.
“When I go out with the dog, other pet dogs seemed to be scared by my pet so I walked it on a leash.”
Her confusion about her pet led her to decide to bring the canine to the nearby Taiyuan zoo, which confirmed that it was not a Japanese Spitz but a fox. Sun Letian, an expert in animal epidemic prevention at Taiyuan Zoo told Wang her pet was actually a fox.
Ms. Wang decided to sent her pet to the zoo to receive suitable nutrition and a better living environment.She was told by the zoo to visit the animal whenever she misses it.
Well, we also got confused that it is a puppy or a fox.
The dog is a term commonly used to broadly describe the members of Canini tribe of Caninae subfamily of the Canidae family. The foxes, on the other hand, belong to the Vulpini tribe of the Canidae Family. Fox is much smaller than a dog with a longer and a fluffy tail. Fox is a lonely animal while dogs would prefer to be in a pack.
Article written by Nazia Bashir
