I'd come back to the burrow and get licked all over by tiny fox tongues.
In recent years, humans have managed to pull a weird parrot, a tiny fox, a rare tiger, an ancient tortoise, a threatened gorilla and a rather handsome mountain goat, among other creatures, from the jaws of extinction.
(And is that a tiny FOX-emblazoned PS4 on the left?).
Somewhere else they will grow thick and terrifying and wise, then eventually they will die, and vultures or hyenas or tiny foxes will pluck out their eyes and then all those vultures and hyenas will die, too.
Liars, all of them, according to Jo Hamlett, the mayor of this tiny Fox River town just north of the Missouri border, who fills many a day soaking up the stories spun around the long table here at A.J.'s.
Its 250 square kilometres (96 square miles) are home to 12 species found nowhere else in the world, including the tiny Santa Cruz Island fox and the brilliant blue island scrub jay.
(In each case the networks are watched by the opposing party loyalists in tiny numbers: Fox's index of Democrats is just 79; MSNBC's for Republicans is even punier, 65).
Another explained that his favorite travel experience was, "Accidentally coming upon a tiny outdoor fox shrine that had a mysterious door into a hill in Arashimaya, Kyoto, after visiting a small moss temple".
As I talked, I got deeper and deeper into the life of the fox so deep that I could imagine the hair on my back, the long teeth in my mouth, my tiny little fox dick brushing between my bushy legs.
Though the wildlife of the place is rich, and though we saw dall sheep on a steep, stony slope, a tiny white Arctic fox at the end of the journey, bald eagles, hawks, common merganser ducks, eider ducks, arctic terns and various kinds of gulls, we did not see the caribou we had hoped for.
Taj brought along a weird little fox with tiny legs.
