The Fox and the Hound

When Gemma Holdway, 19, and her family discovered five two-day-old foxes nestling into hay on their farm in Bath, Somerset, they feared the cubs might die when their mother failed to return.
 So, they took them in, intending to give them to an animal hospital to eventually be released back into the wild. But, the runt of the litter, a little vixen, ended up imprinting – a critical period of an animal's life when it forms attachments - on to Gemma and her boyfriend Dan Pearse, 19, which led to her adopting and hand-rearing the cub.
Now animal science and management student Gemma, who feeds, bathes and walks the fox, called Vixey, alongside her four dogs, says: 'Vixey is definitely a dog at heart.
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