#arctic fox pelt

[kvroii-arts]

I finished sewing my second sealskin capelet!

As well as dark green dyed sealskin, it has a rabbit fur lining and trim, as well as an arctic fox tail as the collar. The strap is genuine leather and adorned with a mother of pearl button.

It is entirely sewn by hand.

[yapping-fox]

My favorite pelt! A violet blue fox. A comparison shot is with my arctic Pearl fox. It’s much smaller. This blue fox is bigger than all my coyotes!

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

being in a class where i regularly interact with animal specimens is such a time sometimes, because we've got stuff that makes sense for us to have (coyotes, foxes, raccoons, etc.), some stuff that isn't typically what you'd find locally/is not as common (armadillo, marmosets, sperm whale mandible), and then there's the human baby skull that no one is really sure where we got it from

[apiswitchcraft]

altars for nordic gods

keep in mind that altars like these have very little historical backing, and this information is mostly for the use of the modern pagan. also pretty much every god can be honored with offerings of meat, mead, wine, and your own blood.

ODIN

Colors: grey/silver for justice; deep blue, black for magic; red for war

Offerings: nine sacred herbs (chamomile, nettle, fennel, crab apple, mugwort, plantain, watercress, chervil, betony), runes, food for ravens, poetry

Crystals: sodalite, lapis lazuli, amethyst, lepidolite, obsidian, labradorite

Animals: his ravens (Huginn and Muninn), his wolves (Geri and Freki)

THOR

Colors: yellow, white, grey for thunderstorms; red for war; blue for the sky

Offerings: rainwater, hawthorn, oak, garlic, onion, hearty meals

Crystals: fulgarite, blue quartz/calcite, yellow jasper, sodalite, obsidian, hematite

Animals: goats

LOKI

Colors: black, green for mischief; yellow/gold for wealth; red, orange when he is combined with Logi

Offerings: yellow rattle, birch, mistletoe, snake shed, cinnamon, dandelion, coins/money

Crystals: labradorite, jade, malachite, pyrite, citrine, bloodstone, gemstones, serpentine

Animals: birds, horses, snakes, foxes

TYR

Colors: dark blue, silver/grey for justice; red for war

Offerings: holly, mustard seed, bread, oak, ash, good deeds are especially emphasized with Tyr

Crystals: lapis lazuli, sapphire, red jasper, bloodstone, obsidian, hematite

Animals: wolf, dog, bear, eagle

BALDR

Colors: gold/yellow, white for opulence; sky blue, pink for beauty

Offerings: chamomile, daisies, white blossoms, honey, juniper berries, laurel leaves, sunflower

Crystals: sunstone, celestite, selenite, pearl, rose quartz, pyrite, milky quartz

Animals: foal

FRIGG

Colors: blue, silver/grey, white for the moon; yellow/gold for opulence

Offerings: cardamom, allspice, sweet wines, milk, handspun fiber, feathers, moss

Crystals: moonstone, selenite, celestite, pyrite, milky quartz, rose quartz, agates

Animals: falcons, hawks, geese

HELA

Colors: red, orange, black for the underworld; white, grey for the dead

Offerings: white flowers, apples, willow, dark chocolate, coffee beans, mushrooms, clove--leave food until rotten

Crystals: bloodstone, jet, onyx, obsidian, black tourmaline, volcanic stone, red jasper, hematite

Animals: owl, raven, dog, wolf

FREYJA

Colors: red, pink, white for love; green, brown for nature; gold/yellow for her cape; purple, dark blue for magic

Offerings: jasmine, rose, verbena, collecting cat whiskers, honeycomb, fruit, fresh flowers, chocolate

Crystals: amber, petrified wood, agates, garnet/ruby, pyrite, lapis lazuli, rose quartz, emerald, jade, tiger's eye, cat's eye, amethyst

Animals: cats, pigs, horses, falcons

FREYR

Colors: green, brown for nature; yellow/gold for sunshine

Offerings: grain, apples, bread, nuts/seeds, venison, anything phallic, antlers, birch, hawthorn, coins/money

Crystals: green aventurine, agates, petrified wood, jaspers, jade, citrine, zoisite, pyrite

Animals: deer/stag, boar, horse, bee

NJORD

Colors: white, blues for the sea

Offerings: fish, sea salt, shells, beads, tobacco, fishing gear

Crystals: aquamarine, larimar, gemstones, pearls, malachite, sodalite, azurite, iolite

Animals: seabirds, sea mammals

SKADI

Colors: white, light blue for winter; brown for the hunt

Offerings: raw meat, berries, nuts, clear liquors, pelts, antlers

Crystals: milky quartz, bloodstone, blue calcite, chalcedony, jaspers

Animals: arctic fox

[orangelionfurandtaxidermy]

Hi, I have some fur farm questions if you don't mind answering.

I've seen you mention that Sapphire is questionable. Why is that? Is it bc of the bleeding and CHS? If so, is Mansfield's Pearl also questionable to breed? And can CHS or bleeding issues be bred out or are they inherently part of the color?

On that note, do you have information on other color mutations that are linked to health issues?

Lastly, how does one get into fur farming? It seems really expensive to set up and buy all the foxes, and I struggle to find fur farms to follow online bc of how taboo it is let alone finding farms to buy live stock from, especially of rare mutations. Is finding farms to buy from more of a word of mouth + trust thing? And is mentorship of new farmers a thing or is fur farming too competitive for established farmers to want to do that?

Bonus: feel free to talk about your favorite mutations or anything else you wanna share.

Hi!

Yes Sapphires seem to all carry genetic illnesses. Some look to be only mildly affected, I’ve been following a few foxes friends of me carefully bred after they discovered some of their Pearls are Mansfield Pearls. So far the animals look to be doing ok, so it’s surely not a death sentence.

However I fear not all farms will be so careful about their breeding or using unhealthy animals because they want to get that special color. You’ve probably seen or heard about Mouse, the Sapphire fox Save a Fox bought from Northern Fox and Fur (a fur farm) several years ago.

Sadly Mouse did have severe CHS and had to be euthanised. There are very strong suspicions the farm bred “special needs” animals so the rescue could profit from the sob stories. Eventually Save a Fox bought out the whole farm. As of today it’s still about half filled with foxes because they can’t place the animals anywhere. Every rescue is full.

Mansfield Pearl alters the way in which blood behaves, foxes of this color seem very prone to excessive bleeding. I acquired this female Pearl Cross (suspected Mansfield Pearl Cross) “secondhand” a few years ago from the US. From what I see in the picture, it’s not a place I want to support. However this girl had already been culled for killing her whole litter of pups. When my tanner skinned the fox, they found that the bones were super weak and easy to snap. The skin had an unusual amount of bloodvessels and also the gums and teeth were quite funky. I’m still waiting for the cleaned skull.

In red foxes there’s not that many bad mutations luckily. Pale eyed foxes do experience sensitivity to the sun, we’ve seen them squint in direct sunlight. Mixing Whitemark/Ringneck/Platinum/Georgian (Snow) creates a lethal effect in homozygous form. Platinums can be anemic but it does seem to be worse in certain breeding lines than others. There’s probably others I’m forgetting but sadly there’s not much research being done anymore.

Finding a farm to work with is very hard nowadays. I somehow got myself a contact 5-6 years ago and it’s snowballed from there. The number of farms is very low now though, many of my own contacts have decided to stop farming because it’s essentially two full time jobs for the pay of half a job.

At least here in Europe it’s pretty much impossible to start up your own farm unless you have serious cash. No bank will want to provide you a loan because there’s little money to be made in the industry. Mutation foxes are very rare, most of what is produced is mink fur, arctic fox fur (‘bluefox’) and some raccoondog fur. You’ll find some Silver and Gold fox, but even those pelts are currently being sold in bulk at rock bottom prices to overseas buyers.

A picture of a Smokey Platinum pup for those who read this whole thing lol. This is a newer mutation for us, last year we had one male and this pup is one of his. Can you see the differences between this cage vs the one the female Pearl Cross lived in (she could barely turn around)? The cage in the background gives a better view of the size. There is also a nest box attached.

[jynxedshapeshifter]

i feel like a genius, i decided i wanted to make godot a fox in my furry au a while ago (i still havent drawn him yet. rip) but i just got the idea of making him an arctic fox specifically since their pelts are brown in the spring and summer and white in fall and winter. if we assume that for a chunk of his coma he was still going through coat color changes but eventually the poison prevented his coat color from changing (maybe his final coat color change was a few months after he entered the coma even), i think i just came up with one of my favorite ideas for my furry au

[pathologically-mythomaniacal]

[A repeat of the same picture, but the korean girl has been replaced by a dead-of-winter-pelt one-tailed anthropomorphic arctic fox with scarlet mehajiki under her eyes. She's BIG and FLUFFY and maybe kinda looks fat since she has such a big pelt. The peace sign and duckface has been replaced with a grimace and middle finger.]

[davidstanleytravel]

In 1909 the Hudson's Bay Company established Wolstenholme Post along the beach at the south end of Eric Cove, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada. The trading post was operational until 1947 purchasing Arctic white fox pelts from the local Inuit.

[squirrelfrost]

snowfur!!

shes a blue lynx point with white on most of her pelt

she's a bit inspired by arctic foxes since that's always how i used to imagine her lol

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from The Revelator:

Thirty minutes’ drive outside northern Canada’s largest city lies one of its best-kept secrets.

The Yukon Wildlife Preserve spans more than 700 acres and features 12 iconic Yukon species in their natural habitat: wood bison, mountain goat, woodland caribou, mule deer, muskox, red fox, thinhorn sheep, moose, elk, Canada lynx, arctic ground squirrel, and arctic fox. It has a long history of rehabilitating injured animals and breeding rare species, and it also serves as a critical stopover and monitoring station for migratory birds.

The site, which celebrates its 20th anniversary as a preserve in 2024, dates back to the 1960s and a man the Canadian Broadcasting Company once called “one of Yukon’s most colorful characters.”

Founder Danny Nowlan was a former forest ranger and preeminent falconer who grew up skipping school in favor of trapping animals and selling their pelts. In 1967 he purchased the property north of Whitehorse, “determined to build not a zoo, but a showcase for northern species in their natural habitat,” the Yukon Times wrote.

Over the next 35 years, Nowlan and his wife would turn the empty property into what they termed a “game farm,” although they didn’t raise animals for hunting or trapping, as the term typically implies. They raised and sold animals to zoos and game farms throughout Canada and the United States and used the earnings to build a wildlife rehabilitation center. As the years went on, they offered educational tours to allow visitors to see native species in large, semi-wild habitats.

Among the many species the Nowlans raised, in custom-built breeding pens and an avian hospital, were peregrine falcons and other birds of prey. The falcons raised there were either sold — using the proceeds to mitigate the poaching of wild populations — or rewilded as nearby populations declined.

Their conservation efforts garnered a national spotlight, and notoriety, when the couple were swept up in a falcon-trafficking sting, arrested, and charged with laundering wild falcons to Arab royalty. Depending on the telling, Nowlan and his wife were either ruthless masterminds who had found a way to finance their conservation habits by trafficking the very birds they were protecting or arrested without merit.

All the falcons were seized. After three years of a trial that at the time was the longest and most expensive in Yukon history, and the Nowlans’ near-financial ruin, they were acquitted of all charges.

When Nowlan and his wife retired in 2001, they put the site up for sale. Members of the community began advocating for the property to become a public facility, and in 2004 they succeeded.

The site is now owned by the Yukon government and operated by the nonprofit organization formed by those neighbors, the Yukon Wildlife Preserve Operating Society. It received accreditation from the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums in 2012, joining the ranks of the Toronto Zoo and the Vancouver Aquarium.

[kvroii-arts]

Genuine sealskin, fox fur, and rabbit fur capelet, entirely sewn by hand.

[yapping-fox]

My smaller blue fox. Called an arctic pearl fox. It’s white with brown tipped fur. Blue foxes are known for overeating so it’s really hard to find them from humane sources. Both of my blue foxes came from small family farms and homesteads.

[neopronouns-list]

any fox-themed neos please? :)

i swear i had a fox neos list lying around... and i was correct, i do! ill copy em over and add a few others; this list is from one of the first posts i ever made on this blog lol. (original list)

under the cut!! \/ change these as you wish o7

vixen/vixen/vixens/vixens/vixenself

vi/vix/vixen/vixens/vixenself

pup/pup/pups/pups/pupself

kit/kit/kits/kits/kitself

ki/kit/kits/kits/kitself

fox/fox/foxs/foxs/foxself

fo/fox/foxs/foxs/foxself

vulpe/vulpe/vulpes/vulpes/vulpeself

vu/vulpe/vulpes/vulpes/vulpeself

sly/sly/slys/slys/slyself

tricky/tricky/trickys/trickys/trickyself

tri/trick/tricky/trickys/trickyself

trick/tricky/trickys/trickys/trickyself

fur/fur/furs/furs/furself

fu/fur/furs/furs/furself

pelt/pelt/pelts/pelts/peltself

pel/pelt/pelts/pelts/peltself

pe/pel/pelt/pelts/peltself

soft/soft/softs/softs/softself

so/sof/soft/softs/softself

kitsune/kitsune/kitsunes/kitsunes/kitsuneself

kit/sune/kitsune/kitsunes/kitsuneself

ki/kitsu/kitsune/kitsunes/kitsuneself

hunt/hunt/hunts/hunts/huntself

hu/hunt/hunts/hunts/huntself

chase/chase/chases/chases/chaseself

cha/chase/chases/chases/chaseself

snow/snow/snows/snows/snowself

sno/snow/snows/snows/snowself

arctic/arctic/arctics/arctics/arcticself

arc/arcti/arctic/arctics/arcticself

vulpine/vulpine/vulpines/vulpines/vulpineself

vu/vulpi/vulpine/vulpines/vulpineself

vul/vulpin/vulpine/vulpines/vulpineself

vulpi/vulpine/vulpines/vulpines/vulpineself

tail/tail/tails/tails/tailself

ta/tai/tail/tails/tailself

tai/tail/tails/tails/tailself

crafty/crafty/craftys/craftys/craftyself

cra/craft/crafty/craftys/craftyself

craf/crafty/craftys/craftys/craftyself

[arctic-whatever]

I’ve always known that my pelt as a wolf would be long and fluffy, and I think that’s why I’ve always felt that I’d be an arctic wolf. The shape of my paws during phantom shifts, the longing for a colder climate, the almost completely-white pelt, I know what kind of wolf I am on the inside through and through.

But then there’s the matter of my phantom ear and wing shifts.

Whenever I get phantom ear shifts, which happen more often then most other shifts, my ears are sharp, longer than an arctic wolf’s, more akin to those of a jackal or fennec fox. The positioning closer to the crown of my human skull doesn’t make sense for an arctic wolf either.

And then there’s the wings. It’s near constant at this point that I feel like there are wings on my back, despite there being no physical presence of these appendages. Often I imagine them shifting and adjusting according to how I sit or stand. The spots on my back always feel strange and like I shouldn’t touch them.

Am I questioning more kintypes? Maybe???? If any other nonhumans have advice for these kinds of things, I would love to hear it.

[megabuild]

i love that arctic fox pelts change over time. thinking about etho adopting sidekit in the winter and assuming he knows so very much about how to take care of her because he has arctic fox genes obviously see his tail see his ears but he made a fatal flaw in assuming his own experiences as a fucked up clone hybrid guy made in a tube mean anything to anyone cause he does not go thru the same pelt shedding (at least not to the same degree) and when summer rolls round and she starts shedding and turning black hes constantly checking on her seconds from throwing up convinced she has like the fox plague. He's a good pet owner he cares guys I promise (COPIUM)

[vagabond-therian]

This animal has the warmest pelt in the Arctic.

ARCTIC FOX

- Arctic foxes have several inches of fur, having fur even on the soles of their feet.

- They quite often follow polar bears and wolves to eat the leftovers of their kills.

- not all of them turn white in the winter. Some turn a grey blue color!

- they are opportunistic feeders, eating everything from fresh prey to leftovers to even garbage.