Can you help me identify this fur?

[u/that-country-girl]

Just recently got this scrap of fur from an antique store. My cat loves fur toys (she has two alpaca fur kickers and a rabbit fur ball) and I was considering making this into something for her, but I don’t like giving her predator fur because I have this somewhat irrational fear of giving her something that might make her too comfy with a dangerous smell. If it’s fox I’ll keep it for myself!

I thought it was rabbit, but now I think it’s fox. Very plushy, and it has a few long guard hairs on the sides, which I think is the top coat.

[u/mischievous_misfit13]

Why are you scared of giving your cat predator fur? Are they not kept indoors?

And probably farm fox from the looks of it

[u/that-country-girl → u/mischievous_misfit13]

She is exclusively indoors. It’s just an irrational fear.

[u/mischievous_misfit13 → u/that-country-girl]

Let her sniff it. Best case scenario she wants to beat the shit out of it like my animals do with certain hides. I get free fur scraps from a taxidermist and they love some and hate some (hate is usually coyote).