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Wild House Animal Encounters Our awesome animals are available to entertain, educate and make any event extra special.

Premium service in which we bring a selection of our lovely animals to your school, home or event space for education, parties, photography and animaltherapy

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Yesterday's Vince walk 🦊🌲🖤🩶🤍
25/05/2025

Yesterday's Vince walk 🦊🌲🖤🩶🤍

Enjoying the rays with Raychel #🦊
11/04/2025

Enjoying the rays with Raychel
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Sofa Sausage!
03/01/2025

Sofa Sausage!

Lazy Sunday morning with Vince.First task of the day is to find the comfiest place to do nothing!
10/11/2024

Lazy Sunday morning with Vince.
First task of the day is to find the comfiest place to do nothing!

Before the Easter Bunny it was the Easter Fox 🦊
16/03/2024

Before the Easter Bunny it was the Easter Fox 🦊

"Bunnies Don't Even Lay Eggs" - Isla Nelson

With around the corner, I wanted to explain why celebrating with bunnies, chicks, painted eggs and egg hunts this time of year might not be as strange as first appears... and it is all thanks to the fox! 🦊🐰🐣

In Germany until the mid-20th Century, it was the or 'Easter Fox' that dominated Easter tradition and not the Easter bunny that we all know today.

"The children prepared a nest of moss and hay for the fox the day before Easter and made sure that the fox would not be disturbed at night." - Wiki, Osterfuchs

Knowing fox parents have hungry mouths to feed over early spring, it is wise to keep small prey animals such as poultry and rabbits locked up safe around Easter time (where they cannot disturb the fox). It was also recorded in the stories of the time, that the eggs were placed by the Easter fox and not by the Easter bunny.

The ancient tradition of the 'Easter Egg Tree' also existed at the time (symbolising life, spring and rebirth) and foxes love nothing more than a challenge and a good egg. It would make sense that hungry fox parents would steal and cache the painted eggs off these bountiful trees, ready for the children to then find again in the morning, in what may have been the very first 'Easter Egg Hunts'.

Natural cycles have always been woven into our traditions and some of the meaning can be lost over time. Finally knowing about the Easter fox, it seems these odd Easter traditions suddenly make sense, don't you agree?

www.blackfoxesuk.co.uk

Artwork by Black Fox Creative

Double meerkat cuddles with Daddy Dan.😍🐾❤️
24/01/2024

Double meerkat cuddles with Daddy Dan.😍🐾❤️

20/12/2023

Did you know that the silver fox is considered a symbol of status and wealth because of it's rarity and outstanding luxurious beauty?

It is also considered a creator, a guardian of boundaries and even a spirit guide, because of its cunning and wily nature. Traits that have been honoured through the folklore of the Native American Indian tribes that share their home with this species.

www.blackfoxes.co.uk

Photography by
www.twitter.com/daviscadam

A rare moment chilling on the sofa 🦊🐾
20/12/2023

A rare moment chilling on the sofa 🦊🐾

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