Mathison's+Myth

=**Why Foxes Have Tails**=

Long ago, way back when, when animals and humans could talk, when hedgehogs were different colors besides brown, when echidnas had a white symbol on their chests and were various colors, when animals had human-like characteristics, when humans could morph into animals and animals could morph into humans, foxes had more than one tail. Many had 2 or 3. Some had 5 or 7. If the fox was lucky, it had 9 or 10. Then how did the foxes get one tail?

Well, it all started in the spring time, way back when. There was a known fox named Vixie. Now Vixie had two tails. These tails were a method of defense and transportation. She could slash her tails in a fight against enemies and she could fly using her twin tails as helicopter rotors. But how did Vixie end up with one tail?

It all started in one spring time. Vixie was in bit of a jam. You see, foxes have many predators, but the one that was chasing Vixie was a gray wolf. Then, Vixie came across a huge oak tree. Using her twin tails, Vixie flew up to the tree so that the wolf couldn’t catch her, since wolves weren’t very good tree climbers. Vixie stayed in that tree all day since she couldn’t go back to her burrow, not with that wolf just below her at the base of the tree.

The next morning, Vixie noticed that the wolf was gone. However, Vixie didn’t know how to get down. The reason is that foxes are not natural tree climbers and was too afraid of fly down because of the height. When looking down, a woodpecker (one that she didn’t see) began pecking the tree beside her, startling her. Vixie, enraged, tried to capture the woodpecker. But as she tried to catch it, it flew just above her, causing her to fall to the ground. She and the woodpecker continued to fight until Vixie’s one tail was caught between two rocks. As the woodpecker flew away, Vixie tried to get her tail out, but it broke from her body, leaving her with one tail and to this day, the tails that broke off decayed and is no longer there.

Later on, during mating season, she was attracted by a male fox who also had one tail. The reason was that his other one never developed before his birth. The two then had 2 fox cubs with one tails. Later, they mated and had fox cubs, and those cubs had cubs and so on and so forth.

However, the many foxes with multiple tails became banned into the fictional world. There, they mated and shared their unique trait and these foxes are those we know very well today. One fox with 2 tails is, of course, Miles “Tails” Prower. Another one is the mythological Kitsune, a nine-tailed fox. These multiple-tailed foxes only exist in fiction and the foxes with only one tail are in the real world. This is how foxes got one tail.


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