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The Fox and the Hound is an animated feature film by Walt Disney based on Daniel P. Mannix’s novel. Released in 1981, the film was the 24th in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. The story follows two unlikely friends, a hound dog named Copper and a red fox named Tod who stuggle to maintain their close friendship amidst the surrounding social pressures that demand they be foes and their emerging instincts.

There was a recent case in real life where a fox and a dog did become close friends. An abandoned male fox cub was found in a quarry he had fallen into by a family who took him to a fox rescue centre to see wildlife expert Gary Zammit. The almost painfully cute fox cub went on to become close friends with Zammit’s one-year-old lurcher Jack. Regular play fights on the sofa and chasing each other around the garden, the two have become the closest of friends. I bet if there was a cat around the three of them would share its cat beds! Zammit said that Jack had taken over nursing duties for Copper, the cub named after the abandoned fox cub in The Fox and the Hound.