Pudding the fox poses for the National Fox Welfare Society's Facebook page. Photo / Martin Hemington, The National Fox Welfare Society
Pudding the fox poses for the National Fox Welfare Society's Facebook page. Photo / Martin Hemington, The National Fox Welfare Society
In this age, it's not unusual for almost anything and everything to break the internet, and a recent addition to the ranks of Facebook fame has proved that.
Pudding, a fox adopted by the National Fox Welfare Society in Yorkshire, England, is quickly amassing followers with her "photogenic" pictures postedon their Facebook page, The Huffington Post reported recently.
Since being abandoned by her mother three years ago, Pudding has formed a close bond with her human keepers, being deemed "too friendly" to return to the wild.
"Pudding had no cubs to integrate with and bonded more with me," explained NFWS founder Martin Hemmington.
This came after previous attempts to reunite Pudding with her own species had failed, with a tree blocking the entrance to a pen of other foxes she was due to be introduced to.
It took months to remove, and as time progressed Pudding eventually became more "tame".
Now she has a cult following, with animal lovers flocking to the society's social media page to see the red fox with big, adorable eyes.
And it is all the more important that she gets the publicity. Foxes, according to the Mammal Society, which is also focused on conservation, face endangerment in the United Kingdom, with "much persecution including shooting ... and being dug out by terriers", the society wrote on its website. With Pudding's face being beamed around the electronic world, it can only be hoped that such threats cease in the near future.
