VIDEO: Foxes on a trampoline

These foxes are having a grand old time on a trampoline. (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!)

[Anonymous February 12, 2009 3:45 PM]

great blog. i am definitely going to add this to my site

http://manspage.blogspot.com/

keep it coming

[Clemoh February 12, 2009 3:46 PM]

This is the Unicorn Chaser chaser.

[Takuan February 12, 2009 3:48 PM]

someone underneath scratching the underside was there?

[ErikO23 February 12, 2009 3:51 PM]

anybody else think "ending credits for the man show"?

[Jake Bullet February 12, 2009 3:55 PM]

How long before we get an animated "Foxes Inspired by Kittens After the Dentist" remix?

[Antinous / Moderator February 12, 2009 3:56 PM]

Are they pets? Or wild? Or kitsune?

[bat21 February 12, 2009 4:04 PM]

It's about time this site lives up to it's name.

[DewiMorgan February 12, 2009 4:06 PM]

THIS is the best video ever, this week, fersure.

If only it were longer.

[DomoDomo February 12, 2009 4:07 PM]

Oh man...I used to do IT for the company that makes this trampoline (the 'Bazoongi' brand star in the middle...oh the time I spent making it a transparent gif to play nice with web backgrounds).

I can't even enjoy a foxes on a trampoline without thinking of my old job. Awesome.

[DomoDomo February 12, 2009 4:08 PM]

Oh man...I used to do IT for the company that makes this trampoline (the 'Bazoongi' brand star in the middle...oh the time I spent making it a transparent gif to play nice with web backgrounds).

I can't even enjoy a foxes on a trampoline without thinking of my old job. Awesome.

[Stefan Jones February 12, 2009 4:08 PM]

Fox A, while clearly fascinated, doesn't actually bounce much.

Fox B seems impatient to get back to play fighting.

[DewiMorgan February 12, 2009 4:11 PM]

From another site:
(http://theridiculant.metro.co.uk/2009/02/foxes-on-a-trampoline.html) - which also has another fox-trampiline vid,

Hello! I'd just like to let you know that you are posting MY video without asking me, the original owner!

I OWN this video, and I would really like some credit for it.

Please don't make it get anymore annoying than this!

Here is my original posted video, of the foxes jumping in MY backyard. Please credit, and link me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xJtH6UcQY&feature=channel_page

Thanks,
Samron (Jessica)

(Endquote, because boingboing's CSS doesn't seem to show the endquote right)

[Stefan Jones February 12, 2009 4:13 PM]

I think Boing Boing TV should start a "Charismatic Megafauna on a Trampoline" short film series.

Coyotes on a trampoline would rock.

Pumas on a trampoline would be terrifying. ("Oh, shit, he's cleared the fence!")

[arkizzle / Moderator February 12, 2009 4:18 PM]

Silly foxes, can't use a trampoline. Don't bend your knees!

Pshew! :)

[Adam Stanhope February 12, 2009 4:20 PM]

Oh - I wish it was longer!

[arkizzle / Moderator February 12, 2009 4:23 PM]

Adam, expecting a good dismount?

[Brother Provisional February 12, 2009 4:24 PM]

What's the term for when you watch something the day before it hits BB? PreBoinging? Boingjà vu?

[Takuan February 12, 2009 4:32 PM]

they can hear those rodents pretty good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pMZi-MY8Vw

[TedJohnson February 12, 2009 4:33 PM]

@9 In defense of Fox A, I think anyone who's been on a trampoline alone, and also with other people knows that its harder to bounce when there are two or more people. I'd like to believe that Fox A discovered the trampoline alone earlier, and then tried to share it with his friend.

Fox A: Dude, I've discovered this amazing thing and I can leap higher than ever before!

Fox B: So? Let's wrestle.

Fox A: Seriously. I've got to show this to you.

Fox B: Okay, I'll look at your stupid bouncy thing. Then can we wrestle?

Fox A: Sure. Here it is. [Jumps on.]

Fox B: Wow. You could wrestle up here.

Fox A: Knock it off. Watch this. [attempts to bounce a few times.]

Fox B: Whatever. Let's wrestle.

[Stefan Jones February 12, 2009 4:38 PM]

Note that if the "foxes on a trampoline" meme goes too far it will inevitably lead to some kind of regrettable furry thing.

[Guysmiley February 12, 2009 4:51 PM]

That looks like the behavior they use when hunting for prey under snow cover.

[jeffjonez February 12, 2009 4:52 PM]

longer version here, with fun rant and comments too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xJtH6UcQY

[Takuan February 12, 2009 4:56 PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQmZ7WmzBsw

[franko February 12, 2009 5:01 PM]

the foxes are cute, and samron is really really possessive. the one youtube comment is right: MINEMINEMINE!

how does she expect anyone to see it if people can't link to it? serendipity?

[Tom Hale February 12, 2009 5:23 PM]

On YouTube she says: " This is MY video, it is taken by ME, do not use or take this video, don't post it anywhere else, or link it to anything without giving me credit, and linking it BACK here to it's original posting. Thank you.
Copyright © Samron."

Like I posted on YouTube - I believe once you post something there, its everyones.

[devophill February 12, 2009 5:32 PM]

IIRC, the regular terms of service for youtube lets anyone on youtube use elements of another users video in their own video... I don't know if she can really control it's use if it's on youtube. (Well, practically, she can't control it at all, obviously, but on top of that, she's likely clicked through some type of agreement that does not cover her ass the way she thinks it does.)

[Anonymous February 12, 2009 5:33 PM]

@#10 posted by DewiMorgan , February 12, 2009 4:11 PM

LOL, she obviously hasn't actually READ YouTube's ULA

[Dani4a February 12, 2009 6:38 PM]

Wow. Having visited the original vid on YouTube and reading the comments from an angry Samron (a 19-year-old who is apparently "uber pissed"), I'd have to say that she is officially the bitch of the internet, at least for this week.
It's an adorable video, but you didn't exactly do anything extraordinary. It's not some great masterpiece, and that (c) means nothing.
I love the video, though.

[holtt February 12, 2009 6:45 PM]

When do we get ukulele players on a trampoline? Actually I suppose it would have to be Hodgeman on drugs with kittens playing the uke.

[Takuan February 12, 2009 6:51 PM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3B6-wnSGgY

[Antinous / Moderator February 12, 2009 6:52 PM]

It would be horrible if everybody who viewed it at YouTube gave it (her) one star.

[Antinous / Moderator February 12, 2009 6:56 PM]

Also, there are at least three different videos of foxes spazzing out on backyard trampolines.

[Summer February 12, 2009 7:03 PM]

#17: You can bounce just fine with two (or more) people on a trampoline provided you synch what you're doing.

Why yes, I did spend much of my childhood summers on a trampoline with friends; why do you ask? ;-)

[Manooshi February 12, 2009 7:11 PM]

Aww. So cute. I wish it were longer, too. I was hoping the other little guy would figure it out and start jumping up and down along with his buddy.

[thisisjason February 12, 2009 7:53 PM]

BoingBoing indeed!

[Summer February 12, 2009 8:01 PM]

#33: WIN!!!

[EH February 12, 2009 8:02 PM]

It smells like bouncy!

[rschndr February 12, 2009 8:28 PM]

That does look like the snowdrift pounce ...
Wild foxes can be as playful as puppies, twice I've seen young ones trying to tease deer into games. Not surprising that they dig toys.

[Doran February 12, 2009 9:08 PM]

Excellent! Bless Samron and her little friends.

[EscapingTheTrunk February 12, 2009 9:14 PM]

Our cat does this exact same pounce. I had no idea it was a snowdrift attack in other species. Usually she tries the same thing on us when we're on our way into another room.

Also, I see no netting, but posts that imply netting around the trampoline. Did someone *put* them on a trampoline, or did they jump up there on their own? Did the little guys ever get down?

...And I'm turning this into the Zapruder of fox-on-trampoline vids. I need to cool out.

[graphicsman February 12, 2009 9:59 PM]

I had to watch it like four times - just for the spot right at the beginning when Fox A realizes he's standing on a bouncy thing.
Now though, I'm Sick And G****mn Tired Of All These Motherf****** Foxes On The Motherf****** Trampolines
(not really. I have to go watch it again)

[GregLondon February 12, 2009 10:56 PM]

That is pretty cool.

[rodbod February 13, 2009 2:42 AM]

Ok, now I need the opposite of a unicorn chaser (I don't know, maybe a Greater Warted Cheney) to rebalance me to reality... or maybe I'll just stay here, with Doctor Doolittle...

[Angstrom February 13, 2009 4:52 AM]

the foxes in my garden play football at night (actually nose-ball)
They collect all of the balls from nearby gardens and bring them into ours and flick them to each other off their noses. Every morning there are at least 4 new balls in our garden, all deflated (from sharp teeth).
It took me a month or two to figure out how all these balls were gathering there (I guessed at clumsy children), until one night I saw the foxes at play.

[Blaine February 13, 2009 6:11 AM]

I'm coming to see you Elizabeth!!!

[acipolone February 13, 2009 7:39 AM]

#38 - Careful. Samron might've copyrighted that pounce, too. Might wanna look into that.

[jimbuck February 13, 2009 8:31 AM]

This video is excellent. It belongs on the news. Maybe Fox news will pick up the story.

[GadgetGav February 13, 2009 9:19 AM]

I will deliberately link to the BB version and not Ms Pissy's YouTube version. What an idiot - post something on YT and then get mad when it gets popular.

[Anonymous February 13, 2009 9:50 AM]

A fox once ate my shoe.
True story.

[mypalmike February 13, 2009 11:04 AM]

I have had it with these m'f-ing foxes on this m'f-ing trampoline!

[Ito Kagehisa February 13, 2009 12:48 PM]

The kitsune play tricks on the geese in my neighbor's yard. The she-fox will hide downwind and the he-fox will drive the flock right up to her - suddenly she will leap up in the air! The geese go berserk, trying to take off and crashing into each other. Sometimes the foxes laugh so hard they fall down and roll on the ground.

[doggo February 13, 2009 2:10 PM]

Foxes love trampolines.

Foxes are cool. Humans should leave them alone. And also sacrifice a chicken or two to them once in a while. Or some dog food.

For more cool fox action watch the movie Grizzly Man. 'Course with the cool fox action you get some very frickin' weird human action. But hey...

[furthur February 14, 2009 4:55 AM]

Apparently foxes jump high so when they land they can tell if there's a tunnel down there, and in the tunnel some tasty mice or other treat. Guess that 'ground' is pretty hollow.