Leonie's just wild about this fox Leonie Bunch with her pet fox Ally / Pic: Toby Zerna Source: The Daily Telegraph FOXES are by nature nocturnal, skittish and cunning. But to Leonie Bunch the human-shy predator is misunderstood. She believes they are as devoted as dogs. The 23-year-old student and emergency services dispatch operator adopted red fox Ally six months ago with the help of Sydney Fox Rescue which re-homes them in an effort to reduce the number of wild foxes preying on native wildlife. "People say 'you have a pet fox in the city?' and I always say 'no, it's more like a fox lives in my house'," Ms Bunch said from her home in St Peters. I don't consider him a pet, he's a non-returnable rescue. We can't put him back in the wild because he'll target native wildlife but he's perfectly happy here, he's nosy and curious and likes to roam the house. Ally was found in a Campbelltown backyard early last year.