The Fox and The Hound

What’s your favorite cartoon?

I’ve watched this so many times over the years. When I was a child in the late seventies and early eighties, I had the vinyl with the picture on it. I listened to it, I watched it and I loved it. It was the taking in of a lost baby fox without its mother that stole my devotion. Later as a teenager I would adopt a foal that’s mother had died after birth. I raised that foal as a mother. He would suckle on my fingers. Come when I called. As a day or two day old foal, it was February and my dad put newspaper all over my bedroom and let the baby stay on my room. I woke up every couple hours with a velvet muzzle and a little nicker in my face. So I think the movie prepared me for the raising and loving and heartache of raising an animal as a human

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