the beach was a great place for photo opportunities but the photographer had
spotted something unusual a fox was in the distance rolling around with
something indeed as he got closer he realized that the Fox was fighting a cat
and its Jones were about to close on the felines head some stories are so
incredible that they stand the test of time and keep on resurfacing over and
over one such example is an amazing encounter between a fox and a cat it
first took the internet by storm in November of 2012 in fact it resurfaced a
year later in 2013 and is kept on coming back ever since
- Wow animal lovers worldwide the original story was uploaded by an imgur
user called stand strong according to BuzzFeed the photographs were taken by a
fisherman local to the lake van area in Turkey the photographer was on Lake Van
shores when he spotted a fox that seemed to be fighting something that something
turned out to be a cat according to a YouTube video uploaded by the dodo the
cat was a stray living in the area as observers watched the two squabbling he
recorded the stunning events and then as the fight progressed he took an
absolutely stunning picture it must have made his heart jump into his throat
because it looked like the Fox was about to kill its rival suddenly the Fox
opened its jaw wide with the felines had practically in its mouth and a fox has a
much greater biting power than a cat while domestic cats have a bite force
quotient bfq of 58 a red fox has a bfq of 90 - a bite nearly twice as strong
the Dodos youtube video which was uploaded on april 5th 2017 described the
event it was the sight that would make anyone's heart drop they noted but just
when it looked like the cat's death was assured something strange happened and
the photographer realized something the box wasn't going in for a killing
blow and for a very good reason the pair weren't in fact fighting with
each other at all they were playing together
the photographer continued to watch the pair while they wrestled as if they were
best of friends furthermore that you weren't just roughhousing
they were playing over a meal that they shared not only did the pair play
together they ate together too according to the YouTube video the boxy feline duo
were enjoying a fish dinner before they got sidetracked the photographer was so
amazed by what he saw that he continued to watch the pair for a while longer
the Fox and the cat shared a friendship that was like something wrong Walt
Disney movie and they seemed to genuinely enjoy spending time together
social media couldn't get enough of the unlikely friends and the images soon
went viral since they were uploaded on imgur the photo series has received over
350,000 views the latest YouTube video meanwhile has proven just as popular and
now has close to 1.6 million views so far following the video many people
asked of the relationship between the two animals was out of the ordinary and
the answer is a resounding yes it's very unusual for these two animals to play
together in the wild in fact they don't often interact with each other at all on
August 29th 2014 Kant behaviorist and groomer Anita Kelsey wrote an article on
the subject in it she noted that the BBC wildlife team in Greece
foxes are generally indifferent to cats foxes and cats meet many times every
night and invariably ignore each other she quoted them as saying some cat
owners worried that their fur babies will fall victim to a fox attack and
while it's not unheard of for a fox to kill a cat it is extremely rare in fact
on the occasions that they do approach each other the results are often not
what you might expect when a bite does breakout it's often the Fox that comes
off worse BBC wildlife noted in her article calcio sulcata trevor williams
one of the founders of the fox project he confirmed that his experiences were
the same from a personal perspective I've had three cats in recent years and
all of them chased the foxes out of the garden if they spotted them and the
foxes didn't hang William said he added that the cat
fatalities were so rare as to be insignificant foxes are generally quite
timid creatures and the offensive displays of cats seem to intimidate them
foxes do and all over have a bad reputation when it comes to poultry and
rodents indeed a foxes spot an easy meal they can be determined in single-minded
realistically though foxes don't represent a danger to household pets
like cats and dogs in fact they're more at risk from humans in the past foxes
have been demonized especially in the UK where fox hunting is a controversial
issue some argue that fox hunting pursuing a
fox on horseback with a pack of hounds should be legalized however it's still
permitted to shoot the animals as vermin while adopted forms the sport remain
legal much to the ire of animal rights protesters and the Dodos YouTube videos
seem to side with the protesters making the case for more compassionate
treatment of the animals commenting on the animals friendship the dodo noted
these two very different wild animals prove a fundamental lesson that everyone
could learn from really it doesn't matter where you come from because love
knows no bounds these two never got the memo that they weren't supposed to like
each other they just decided to care for each other I hope you liked this video
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