I will be posting photos from my first National Geographic story, Rescued Foxes in Minnesota, edited by Alexa Keefe @alexa_keefe and written by Kristen Hugo @thestrangebiology Mikayla Raines had studied to be a vet tech, but dropped out of school to start Save A Fox, which became a 501(c)(3)-registered charity in 2017. @mikdolttles_animals Hope you can read to the end about Mikayla and her fox family. The foxes come from fur farms where farmers raise them to kill and sell their pelts, mostly to clothing manufacturers and sometimes to taxidermists. Fur farmers give her foxes that are injured, have damaged pelts, or whose mothers have rejected them. Even though Raines doesn’t agree with fur farmers, she says she has a good working relationship with them. “All of the fur farmers that I get foxes from actually think what I do is like super cool,” she says. At Save A Fox, Mikayla takes in native animals that can’t be released to the wild, including minks, a bobcat, and a coyote. Some of them also come from people who got them as pets but couldn’t keep them because of how difficult they are, or because of changing exotic pet laws, or simply because of unforeseen circumstances. Mikayla has an extraordinary connection with animals, here with her fox family. My story is of Mikayla’s extraordinary connection with animals, and how each fox she has rescued is a unique individual, each fox is to be adopted into a forever home and sponsored in the meantime. Here, Rowyn, Finnegan and Oakley foxes talk to Mikayla, their rescuer, as she sits in front of an oak tree on her property. I was fascinated by how Mikayla held court with the foxes and they all seemed out of a fairytale. #SaveAFox.org #clevyrowyn #finneganfox #Oakleyfox Each Fox has a hashtag instagram page AmazonSmile “SaveAFox Corporation (at Minnesota) https://www.instagram.com/p/Btua-aBA1VG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ehozxbv0vev9