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In the
early early days the housing was very different from what it is today.
Enclosures probably twelve by sixteen and about eight feet high with
a wire top all over them so the fox wouldn’t come out. And at
that time the foxes were on the ground. Just set on the ground. A wire
trench built around with wire put down about two and a half feet in
the ground so the foxes wouldn’t burrow out under. But it also
predisposed the foxes to contamination from parasites. So then they
got the idea of putting them up off the ground and putting legs under
the pens. I think it was back around 1921 R. Humphry from Kensington
evolved the idea of a shed structure. He was the first to come up with
that design using the fox shed. And so the foxes were under cover completely
and protected from the sunlight and wind and the elements. He showed
foxes in the Royal Winter Fair that year and practically cleaned up
the show with his color. So then everybody went to building sheds, that
became the standard type of housing. |
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