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Article: House of Horrors: Pet-Shop Window A Vision of the World.(The City)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2005
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Byline: Regan Good
Last summer, I saw a man with a leash dragging a strange, scuttling creature across the big lawn in Prospect Park. Its ears were big, its tail was bushy, its face feline, but its body was hound-like.
"Excuse me," I said. "That's cute, but what is it?"
"It's an aboriginal fox," the man answered, trying to pull it closer to him. The fox dug its paws in and balked at the tug, twisting its head back and forth.
"He's not much fun to walk, though," the man sighed as he continued tugging. "He's afraid of birds and trees and is constantly looking for cover."
The fox was skulking as low as it could get to the ...