An intimate portrait of a mysterious and misunderstood animal. writes in an easytoread style that is full of insight and understanding. I felt like I was sitting beside him as he described fox behavior. Rick McIntyre Yellowstone wolf researcher and author of The Rise of Wolf 8If you look into the foxs amber eyes youll notice vertical pupils. With such feline eyes in a slender canine body the fox is a relative of the dog and the wolf but it hunts alone like a cat. The fox lives close to people both in the city and in the country but its wild shy and secretive.Taking long walks in the early morning equipped with wildlife cameras sometimes with his dog Topsy by his side Tjernshaugen journeys into the forest hoping to encounter the foxes living just outside his small town in Norway.