Silver Fox (Black or Melanistic Red Fox)...Ever seen one?

[6x6 elk]

Friend of mine got one trapping about 30 years ago. Had a full body mount done of the fox, black with silver tips at the end of the fir with a little white tip at the end of the tail. Amazing looking animal. Taxidermist who did the mount said one and 10,000 grey Fox are black.

 

[asd9055]

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No, this is NOT my picture...I got this off of the internet

I questioned my sanity for a while after I saw it....

But this is definately what I saw...broad daylight...no alcohol involved...

Saw one a couple of times in Castle Rock, CO back in July

 

[Jeffrey Van Zandt]

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No, this is NOT my picture...I got this off of the internet

I questioned my sanity for a while after I saw it....

But this is definately what I saw...broad daylight...no alcohol involved...

yes we have a lot of crossfox silvers ect some on the Ilands come from old fox farms that closed we have them in the yard all the time summer winter ect

 

[lyotehunter]

I have seen lots of them a friend had a fox farm

 

[mnshortdraw]

We get a lot of color phase fox here.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Have seen one in my 73 years.

 

[mnshortdraw]

Here are silvers, cross fox, and a red

 

[asd9055]

This is the one I saw. A couple of days later, same neighborhood I as the brown one with the white on tail, was not able to take the paicture.

 

[Ak_Hobie]

I saw this while hunting deer in Kodiak and was able to get a quick shot off before it disappeared. It's been at the taxidermist for a long time but hopefully I'll get it back one of these days.

 

[mnshortdraw]

This is the one I saw. A couple of days later, same neighborhood I as the brown one with the white on tail, was not able to take the paicture.View attachment 488212

That looks like an escaped farmed fox. Wild silvers tend to have much smaller white tipped tails and courser coloration.

 

[asd9055]

That looks like an escaped farmed fox. Wild silvers tend to have much smaller white tipped tails and courser coloration.

It was in a neighborhood early morning on my run. The brown one, came to the back yard of the house I was staying, about 5 blocks away from where I saw the black one. Never saw them before, I had to google to find out what they were.

 

[skipglo]

This one had a lot off darkness ,legs, head,tail.When on the paw was pretty dark, the taxidermist said he was a cross foxView attachment 487964

Yup....looks to me like it was NAILED TO A CROSS! I think he was right!

 

[Gundog74]

So you were bow hunting and saw a fox and coyote then decided to call your wife? Instead of hunting buddies??? Oh man Admin we can't have this here!!!! Lol just kidding. I've seen a couple over the years here but a fella used to raise artic fox when I was growing up down the road. Figured just a strain of dna that prolly got loose.

LOL! Sorry my wife is my best buddy. I was afraid any of my hunting buddies would laugh at me!

 

[tt35]

This one had a lot off darkness ,legs, head,tail.When on the paw was pretty dark, the taxidermist said he was a cross foxView attachment 487964

I took a cross fox a few years ago. I heard some pretty wild stories of what a "cross fox" was. It turns out it's a melanistic variant of a red fox. The extra black over the shoulders and down the back form a "Cross". Exceptionally beautiful as is yours, sp6X6! No, they aren't a silver x red, red x gray, coyote x red (Really! I heard this!), but they are really beautiful. The Gov't Trapper said that 25% of the fox he trapped on the ranch I hunted were color-phase.