I'm guessing that it preserved the hide, what's fox going for now-a-days, I know I got one big Bob on salt, and I looked up Coyote, and it wasn't worth the trouble, it was like $15.00/hide. Rancher
He is just chillin! I have a pair of mated Big Silvers living here under my back deck, tempting as it was when they first showed up, I instead adopted them and they keep the little pests out of our stuff, so they earn their keep! Fox are actually pretty good "dogs" to have around!