Got to reblog this post so you can see some of the funny answers I have had over two years. Today I heard from Jessica, who actually has a YouTube channel showing foxes stealing things: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6cpOtpwo4XYb4Mc2auvf6A
Why do foxes steal so many shoes?
A recent article by Daniel Hurst, reporting from Tokyo for the Guardian, prompted a web search but no definitive answers. Apparently foxes steal shoes. OK, but why and why so many?
“It began at midnight,” Hurst wrote. “A six-hour police stakeout to catch the shoe-loving thieves who had pilfered 40 pairs of sandals from a neighbourhood in Japan. Finally, the officers found the main suspects: a pair of sly foxes.
“ ‘I can’t believe that foxes stole my sandals,’ a resident, 36, told the Mainichi newspaper. …
“Five police officers were involved in the stakeout in the early hours of 20 May. This culminated in the discovery of two foxes in the garden of an empty house, with 40 pairs of shoes scattered around a burrow, the Mainichi reported.
“Kyoto city zoo’s chief, Naoki Yamashita, speculated that the foxes ‘could have been…
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Same instinct as a dog and slippers?
Makes sense. They must be cousins.
I think they are both canines. In Russia they did an experiment training and breeding foxes. They can become domesticated as dogs did.
Only one explanation: The foxes are shape shifters and need the shoes when they are in human form. 😉
Now, that’s an explanation that makes sense to me!
That’s the way my mind runs. 😉
Next time I misplace something, i’ll blame the fox. Cute videos.
A handy scapegoat. Like one my sister had when she was about 3. Whenever she felt she was getting blamed, she’d say, “Goofy did it.”
I’m for the shape shifters–isn’t there a legend about that somewhere? this was the perfect repost; all the videos and the story itself are exactly what the doctor ordered for this moment in time.
Even the darling photo of the little fox, probably unaware that stealing shoes is going to be a big part of his future.