Cameron: Again, I really don't know much about Japandese culture...our family ancestry was largely western Roaropean and so...we aren't well versed in the way of Japandese foxes, and legends regarding them. In terms of a fox's tail, well...I don't think I have to tell you that our tails are sort of a very important...I want to say feature of the fox as a species. It's come to represent virility in both males and females, and to lose one's tail in life sort of puts a fox on the backpaw so to speak. It definitely affects the way a fox is seen by other foxes, even on a subconscious level.
Val: Eh, I don't really care too much for tail envy...
Cameron: Did I ever tell you the doctors nearly had to cut your tail off when you were born?
Val: WHAT!? *Clutches tail protectively*. No way!
Cameron: You're right, that didn't happen. I merely wanted to prove a point.
Val: *Furrows brow* DAAAAAD! *Hisses* Not funny!
Cameron: In terms of being born with multiple tails in Zootopia, generally they are snipped off, regardless of species, unless a parent is adamant about keeping it. Even so, most of those cases end with the kit getting the extra tail snipped off as an adult, as almost all 'extra tails' tend to grow in malformed and stunted. It's rare that a fox would be born with an extra tail, and even more rare for one to be born with two or more healthy tails.
Qali: According to this wikipawdia page online, it says that thanks to the Kitsune myth, most foxes born with a second tail tend to keep them. It's actually encouraged and considered a blessing by the gods.
Val: Wow, so like the polar opposite...
Qali: But your Dad was definitely right about most of those extra tails not forming right...a lot of the examples show little hairless nubs or really kinked-up tails that are like a third of the side of an average fox tail.
Val: It's like trying to grow two plants in one really tiny pot, both of them aren't going to make it...*Chuckles*
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