Woman Finds Out The Strange 'Japanese Spitz' She's Been Raising For A Year Is Actually A White Fox

A woman in China discovered that her pet, believed to be a Japanese Spitz, was actually a white fox. 

This unusual case began when Ms. Wang purchased what she thought was a Japanese Spitz puppy from a pet store. 

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She welcomed the pup into her family, showering it with love and attention.

However, as the months passed, she noticed more and more strange things about her fluffy companion over time.

As reported by the Daily Mail, the puppy began refusing dog food by the age of three months and developed noticeably thicker fur. 

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Its face also grew pointier and its tail grew longer than on a normal dog.

Another odd detail was that the pup never barked.

Ms Wang found all of this very strange but was not expecting to find out that her beloved pup was not only not a Japanese Spitz, but not a dog at all.

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According to the Daily Mail, it was people from the park who finally suggested to Ms Wang that her “Japanese Spitz” was actually a domesticated fox.

Ms Wang had noticed that the other dogs at the park tended to avoid her pup, and so she decided to take her pet to the zoo to find out whether the other park-goers were correct.

Ms Wang took her pet to Taiyuan Zoo where it was confirmed that her furbaby was, in fact, a domesticated fox.

This was heartbreaking news for Ms Wang who loved her pup very much and had spent nearly a year caring for him; she loved it so much, but she knew the fox wouldn’t be happy living as a pet

Ms Wang decided to hand her fox over to the zoo in order to give it a better life.

It was a tough decision, but now the fox is able to receive the correct care and get to live in an enclosure with other foxes and Ms Wang is welcome to come and visit.

All in all, that’s probably the best way that this strange story could have ended.

This, for the record, is what an actual Japanese Spitz looks like. It really does look a bit like a white fox!