In April last year, He Mou from Hejiang, Sichuan purchased the fox for 750 yuan through an online shopping platform and gave it to his girlfriend to help feed it. After identification, this fox belongs to the national second-level key protected wild animal red fox. At present, He has been taken criminal compulsory measures for the crime of endangering precious and endangered wild animals. @cctv.com

It's okay to buy people, but fine for buying protected animals, which is a bit ironic. The law should respect the value of man over things. People who sell second-level protected animals in the name of pets are not punished, but those who buy pets and buy second-level protected animals are fined? This is obviously unreasonable. I went to check, and some species of foxes can be raised legally. So there is nothing wrong with buying a fox as a pet. However, he was fined because the businessman sold him a second-class protected animal, which is too wrong.

A lot of farmed foxes are sold online. If the platform can guarantee the sale, then I will definitely buy it as a consumer. After I bought it for the first time, do I have to go everywhere to find an animal expert to identify what kind of fox it is? I have to find out that this is a protected animal and then apply for a return. Will the seller give me a refund? If I report it, as a buyer, am I still suspected of endangering precious animals and subject to criminal enforcement measures? It's not a buyer's problem at all. He just wanted to buy a pet for his girlfriend, how could he have thought that the red fox, a national second-level key protected wild animal, was in his hand?

This is clearly a seller and regulatory issue. I don't believe that the seller doesn't know the breed and source of this fox. It is also because of the lack of supervision by the regulatory authorities that this nationally protected animal is circulated in the market. Aren't these two the culprits? Instead, he threw the whole pot to the buyer. Do you want to use this incident to catch a typical example, so find a big grievance instead. People buying and selling cases are not caught as quickly as this is typical.

When this store sells, it doesn't always have the slogan Selling National Grade II Protected Animals, right? If he just wrote an ordinary fox, and the regulatory platform has approved the sale, why can't you buy it as an ordinary pet fox as a customer? People who hunt second-level national protected animals don’t look for them, platforms that approve second-level national protected animals don’t go to review, and stores that sell second-level national protected animals don’t go after them. Finally, pick the best customer to bully and arrest them? According to this logic, the next time I buy books online and buy pirated books, do I have to pay a fine for infringement?

And I'm also surprised. In the end, the seller caught all kinds of cases of selling children. The buyer didn't even feel distressed by netizens and raised children for others for more than ten years. Instead of selling a fox, the seller on the capital side has nothing to do with it, and arrests buyers who may not know anything at all? It's just that I'm not as good as a protected canine? Still a secondary. It’s fine without being shot to death by Houlang. What bike do you need?

According to the “Catalogue of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources” promulgated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in 2020, the “silver fox”, that is, the artificially mutated individual of the red fox, is Special livestock and poultry are not wild animals, nor are they second-class protected animals. Similarly, jungle fowls and grey wolves are second-class protected animals, but domestic chickens and domestic dogs are not. By the way, please don't compare this case with the college student digging out the bird case. The so-called college student bird digging case is actually a long-term poaching of wild raptors with guns, and it deserves it.

This case can be compared to the Heilongjiang Muskrat Case, Hong Kong Snail Case, Nanling Sturgeon Case, Jinhua Parrot Case and Nanchang Parrot Case in previous years. Cases of misidentification of circumstances or artificial wild confusion. We oppose extreme animal protection riots as a rush for performance, but we should support reasonable animal protection and environmental protection, and oppose the poaching of truly protected wild animals. Of course, it can also be seen from public opinion that the long-standing various chaotic acts in the field of animal protection have led to the stigmatization of animal protection as a whole.

Finally, unlike the confusion between artificial breeding and wild populations in CITES Appendix II, this case is not a legislative issue (the Catalogue of Livestock and Poultry Genetic Resources has clearly distinguished the mutant individuals of red foxes from wild populations. ), but a grassroots law enforcement issue. This must be clarified. In the short term, the problems of the former are more serious, but they are relatively easy to solve (basically solved within 5 years); while the problems of the latter are scattered, and the short-term harm is small, but it is difficult to completely solve them.

Personally, don't keep foxes. Foxes are really not suitable for pets. It's not that I have any prejudice against foxes. It's really not suitable for raising them in the city. Friends, you can take a good look at this article, and don't jump into the pit. As for whether you have already raised it or decided to raise it, I just hope it can be done well~

Reason 1: The smell I said is not the smell Refers to those so-called body odor, husao and the like, fox itself has no smell, but! Fox's excrement is very, very smelly. First of all, 80%+ of the foxes do not have a fixed point of defecation! This also means that once free-range, there may be excrement everywhere.

Reason 2: Tempered foxes are still wild animals after all. Of course, the foxes we buy now are basically from farms, but this farm is not a pet breeding base, but fur Fox farms, yes, the foxes on the market are basically fur foxes, and there is no specially selected pet fox! This means that the character of the fox itself will be more uncertain, and no one can guarantee it. This fox can grow up to be able to have relatives, but if you do a little more homework, you will find cases of domestic foxes biting people when they grow up, because the fox itself is not small, the bite force is relatively strong, and the canine teeth of carnivores are very real. It's still very scary to bite people, so you have to think about it before you raise it. If a fox accidentally gets vaccinated like a dog, it will be troublesome