When buying a fennec fox for the first time it’s important to find a reputable breeder. If you are buying from the USA or Canada, it is important to first check if it’s legal to even own a fennec. You can findfennec fox pet legal states on our dedicated page. Also you may want to consider the cost. We have prepared a complete breakdown of costs in our fennec fox price article. Usually, you hear that is better to buy a younger animal when dealing with exotics, however this is only 75% true for fennec foxes. Fennec’s are difficult to raise with bottle feeding and it’s best to try and leave this to the breeders and buy your fennec a little later than usual, but not too old that you can’t bond with them. Some breeders choose to pull the kit straight from their mother to give directly to the new owner without bottle feeding. It goes without saying that you should contact the breeder first to ask these questions. If you are a new owner, then you should be asking for care tips to take care of your fennec during the early stages.

I would cite that a 3-5 month old fennec fox is ideal. Coon Dogs For Sale AlabamaIn the USA and Canada you can expect to pay around $2000 for a fennec fox.Pocket Pitbull Puppies For Sale In Georgia This site has fennec foxes for sale, some of them are from breeders and some of them are from individual owners looking to re-home their fennecs. Boxer Puppies For Sale Jackson MichiganHowever, you should be extremely careful when buying foxes that have previous owners. Usually fennec foxes do not bond well with new and subsequent owners resulting in aggression or fear. Do extensive homework and try to visit the animal in-person before buying. Many large breeders usually deal with several exotic pets, so also have other types of foxes for sale.

Read on for a list of breeders that include the fennec fox for sale. For the USA and Canada bear in mind that the rules for breeding and owning a fennec fox sometimes differ so again, check your state law. For a complete list of products that can help you get set-up and ready for your fennec fox check out our amazon store. Alternatively you can see some other fun products on our fennec fox store page. We have included breeders from  …  | When buying fennec foxes in the USA, make sure that the breeder is USDA licensed and that you have the necessary certificates ready for purchasing your fennec. Julie’s Jungle is a 22 acre private USDA licensed breeding site. They have fennec foxes for sale as well as other exotics. You can contact them through their website. Full line, family-owned pet store which sells hand-fed, well-socialized companion birds, mammals, exotics, fresh and saltwater fish and reptiles along with all of their supplies. She Breeds Toy Aussies, Bengals, Snakes, and Fennec Foxes.

I would highly recommend her as she socializes her foxes extremely well. My friend and administrator of foxesandfriends got his kit from her and recommends her highly. This farm has arctic, red, gray and fennec foxes for sale. You can find out more on their sales page. They accept deposits for their spring breeding programs. You can contact Bob Hudelson. Tim and Gayla Self at Macon Magic have many exotic pets for sale including llamas, kinkajous and fennec foxes. Creekstone Pets sell several exotic species. It says that their USDA license is being processed so you may want to check that if you consider buying from them. Christy Davis of Fairytale Foxes is a USDA licensed breeder and is very reputable according to past owners. She has a facebook page for her business, where you can contact her with further questions. Fennec foxes are legal everywhere in the UK! Flashman Foxes run an excellent website, detailing individual animals that they have for sale. The website is very informative and user-friendly. 

Corsac Foxes, Arctic Foxes, Silver Foxes and Fennec Foxes are for sale. In Canada there are fewer places where it is legal to own a fennec fox compared to the USA and UK. However, it is possible to find a handful of breeders. As with the USA check your individual state and municipal law here. Northern Exotics breed a number of exotic pets for educational shows. Dennis Epp is the person to talk to about potentially buying a fennec fox. I have done my best to provide current information on breeders but the truth is the laws are changing all the time and breeders come and go with the wind. It is not easy to find readily available fennec foxes from simply searching the internet. The best place to look is in well-established forums to ask current owners about breeders in your area or even speak directly to the breeders themselves. Sybil’s Den is one such forum that has a long-established forum that is contributed to by experienced owners and breeders. You can visit it here.

Due to there only being a handful of breeders across the USA and Canada, many owners choose to import their fennec fox from states where the law is more agreeable such as Florida. Many thanks to foxesandfriends for much of this information. we are working to educate future and current fennec fox owners. and Amy KaufmanContact Reporters Ever since Li Xing's son saw Disney's "Zootopia" two weeks ago, the 7-year-old from Tianjin, China, has been obsessed with getting his own Nick Wilde, the red fox con artist at the heart of the movie."The kids wouldn't shut up about it. All they talk about is that film and the fox," said Li. "I told him many times our two-bedroom apartment is too small for a pet, but he wouldn't listen." So Li went online to research her options. She quickly ruled out red foxes after learning they get quite big. But then she saw postings about fennec foxes, the pint-sized species of Nick's short-tempered, big-eared sidekick, Finnick. All it took was a few clicks to find dealers offering to sell the nocturnal African animals, with prices starting around $3,075, even though Chinese law requires buyers of the protected species to have permits normally given only to institutions like zoos."

Fennec foxes are very tiny, smaller than a normal cat," she said. "But I also learned it is sort of illegal. I'm not buying it. I told [my son] we are not allowed, and he is sulking." While Li erred on the side of caution — and the law — other Chinese parents are considering taking the plunge. Wild animal dealers in multiple Chinese cities have reported a rush in interest in fennec foxes since "Zootopia" hit Chinese theaters in early March. In less than three weeks, the movie has collected more than $170 million in ticket sales in China and become the country's top-grossing animated film of all time. Queries for "fennec foxes" on the Chinese search engine Baidu soared from near zero at the start of the month to a peak of more than 6,500 a day by March 17.Experts worry that if the budding Vulpes zerda frenzy gains momentum, it could have negative consequences for conservation efforts."If trading fennec foxes becomes a widely practiced business in China, the illegal trade of fennec foxes from their native region will certainly increase," said Zhang Jinshuo, an associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology.

"That will reduce the number of wild fennec foxes and ultimately could lead to the extinction of this species."For decades, films and TV shows featuring wild animals have driven demand for pets around the world. "Finding Nemo" led to a surge in purchases of orange-and-white striped clownfishes, which led populations to plunge in some areas off the Australian coast in 2008. Likewise, the Harry Potter series fed trade in snowy owls, said Richard Thomas of the British-based wildlife trade monitoring group Traffic. And the 1970s TV show "Baretta," he added, led to widespread trapping of yellow-crested cockatoos in Indonesia, where the birds are now critically endangered.To date, Chinese audiences haven't been a big driver of such demand, in part because China's movie market has only taken off in recent years and because keeping pets — particularly exotic ones — has only become common with the rise of a middle class with disposable income. Zhang said fennec foxes were introduced as pets in China only about a decade ago.

Fennec foxes, which are found in Sudan and other parts of northern Africa, are listed in Appendix 2 of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES. That means they're not necessarily threatened with extinction, but that "trade must be controlled in order to avoid utilization incompatible with their survival."China recognizes CITES and classifies fennec foxes as a "Class 2" protected species, meaning institutions or individuals must apply for certificates from provincial governments to buy, raise or sell them.But multiple sellers contacted by the Los Angeles Times in China expressed a willingness to skirt the rules."We normally sell them to zoos, but have received quite a few phone calls after the screening of 'Zootopia,'" said an employee of a wild animal import-export company in Liaoning province whose phone number was posted on an online fox forum. "One family from Jiangsu province bought a fennec fox from us not long ago," said the employee, who gave only his surname, Yuan.

"Then I received three other parents' calls, all from southern China, demanding the foxes. But we didn't have young foxes, so they have paid some money to order newborn, baby foxes."Another man advertising two fennec foxes for sale for $6,150 met a Times reporter at his house in Beijing, where he was keeping the animals in the basement. He said he acquired the male-female pair in December from a friend who works for an animal importing company."When they are in good mood, they like to jump onto my wife's shoulder when she is reading, and play with her," said the man, who would also give only his surname, Yao. "But they are very active at night and jump all over the bedroom, which is very noisy."Yao said he changed his mind about raising them because he and his wife are expecting a baby. He's been listing them for sale on Alibaba's EBay-like sales site Taobao, though platform administrators have repeatedly deleted his ads. "I used to hear from one customer on Taobao every two to three days.

But starting two weeks ago, I've heard from two to three per day."CITES trade data reviewed by Humane Society International shows that Sudan is the world's biggest exporter of live fennec foxes for both commercial and zoo purposes. China ostensibly stopped importing fennec foxes for commercial purposes in 2005, but the country has been the largest importer for zoo purposes in the last decade, bringing in 140 in 2014, up from 14 in 2011. (The United Arab Emirates is the biggest importer of fennec foxes for commercial purposes, taking in 733 between 2005 and 2014.)Animal welfare groups say they haven't noticed an uptick in interest in fennec foxes outside of China."We haven't seen the same kind of spike in the U.S. that we saw after '101 Dalmatians' and the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' when irresponsible moviegoers flooded rescue groups with dogs and reptiles after the novelty of their new animal companions wore off," said Brittany Peet, deputy director of captive animal law enforcement for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.Peet said she was aware of eight registered breeders in the U.S.

, but The Times was unable to locate any despite responding to over two dozen online advertisements on exotic animal websites. One former breeder in Oklahoma said she had recently retired from the business after 15 years because she felt so few buyers were equipped to handle the demands of raising a fox. "A lot of us have gotten out of the business because we don't believe the exotic animals belong to most people," said Terrie Klontz, who sold between 40 and 50 fennecs annually. "I would get a lot of phone calls like, 'Oh, my God, I went to the zoo, I want one because they're so cute!' A lot of people want a companion animal, but these foxes are very aloof, nocturnal — they're not going to sit on the couch with you. They're not going to sleep with you. They don't potty train, so they pee and poop anywhere they want. They destroy your carpet. I had one just digging at the Sheetrock in my wall because they're burrowers by nature."Thomas said filmmakers ought to "be aware of potential unintended consequences of portraying animal subjects" and consider including "appropriate messaging alerting viewers as to why their animal subjects should not be considered as potential pets."

Studios have taken such steps before. In 2006, Disney partnered with the American Kennel Club to insert a message in the DVD packaging of "Eight Below," a live-action adventure featuring a Siberian husky, telling viewers that while that breed "is a beautiful and intelligent dog," it is "not right for everyone." DVD packaging for "The Shaggy Dog," another canine film, carried a similar informational insert on bearded collies. (Disney did not respond to repeated requests for comment for this report.)Yao, the man trying to sell his fennec fox pair, said he's already turned down inquiries from several parents of "Zootopia" fans."A father of a little boy said his son really loved the little fox and wanted to have one at home," Yao said. "Honestly, I stopped this father, just because I don't think it's safe to have both kids and fennec foxes at home."Makinen reported from Beijing and Kaufman from Los Angeles. Yingzhi Yang and Nicole Liu in the Times' Beijing bureau contributed to this report.