Why Fox Not

By Dianne Hooker

Why Fox Not by Dianne Hooker

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 8, 2021
• ISBN: 9781636309194

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Why Fox Not

Dianne Hooker

ISBN 978-1-63630-918-7 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63630-919-4 (Digital)

Copyright © 2021 Dianne Hooker

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

This book is dedicated to my wonderful parents and fantastic husband, who all never gave up on me and my goofy ideas.

Introduction

Before we commence to bring our lives into your lives, I want to let you, the reader and researcher, know a bit of background about my family and the reasoning behind this book.

My considerate, caring husband and I have been married for thirty-five years. We have three grown children and eight grandchildren. With a farm full to the brim of animals, we have a lot of love in our hearts. Oh, and the word sucker is written on our foreheads.

I guess I should start with why we are where we are in my family’s life. My daughter Fawn loved horses, so much so that wanting a horse of her very own at the age of seven is what prompted her to have her only tantrum in her whole life. After throwing herself on the floor, kicking and screaming, she got her horse. Now she wasn’t a bit spoiled, so don’t get that idea. She just had been blessed with understanding parents with an incredibly deep love and passion for animals. Lucky for her. Well, one wasn’t just good enough for her. Fawn just had to try and save every horse she encountered that desperately needed a better, loving home. Her herd grew over time. Trying to pay the board on all those horses darn near killed her father and I in terms of coming up with the money every month.

As time went by, after her seventeenth birthday, we decided to find a farm of our own. By now, I changed careers and became an artist. My husband and I did a lot of traveling to art shows and flea markets to sell my work so moving to the great wilds of northern Wisconsin from Northern Illinois didn’t really bother too much. We settled for renting so we could live with Fawn’s beloved horses.

Life was deliciously wonderful, finally living with the horses and the other animals we have invited into our family. Then the big game changer happened in our lives. Fawn announced she was pregnant. Now our lives were consumed with preparing for our grandchild. Trying to keep that girl off her horses during her pregnancy was an extremely difficult task. Poor little Robert was bounced around so much while in her belly that he just bounced right out when he was born. What a blessing that tiny person turned out to be.

Then it was time to buy a forever farm to raise that little bundle of joy. With the love his mother had in her heart for animals, we knew it would transfer to him as well. Boy, it sure did! So we packed up the horses again along with a twelve-hundred-pound hog, two llamas, numerous chickens, plenty of sheep, a ton of cats, a few dogs, and my elderly mother. We moved to our newly purchased forever farm.

Now, mind you, we didn’t know anything about fox at the time. The only experience we had with them was watching the Disney movie The Fox and the Hound over and over again when the kids were little. I mean, everyone knows fox like chickens and steal eggs. It’s common knowledge. Owning a fox never even entered our minds at the time. I never dreamed or realized anyone could own a fox, let alone want to own one. Ten long years later here, we sit with me writing and you reading about how and why would someone want to add a fox to their family.

Before we go any further with this story, I want to say to all of you to please do your research first. I studied about fox for two long years before I even made the decision that maybe I wanted one. I don’t recommend anyone running out and getting a fox to add to their family. I don’t have years of experience with raising foxes, but what I have learned so far makes me think that no one should own a fox unless they truly know what they are getting into. Foxes don’t belong in captivity, let alone in someone’s house. They are destructive and extremely disruptive. There is no other way to put it.

Before you do run out and get a fox, please make a promise to yourself and the fox to have more patience and understanding than you have ever had in your whole