shadow fox vs. white fox

[Lil Dragonfly]

What's the difference between the 2? I'm confused.

[AKcoyote]

Shadow fox is almost pure white with a small percentage of the guard hairs having black tips. As it looks white until one examines it closely, it is sometimes mis-labeled as white fox.

If shadow fox is brightened (bleached) it can lose most of the dark guard hair tips and thus become basically a white fox pelt.

 

The winter coat of the Arctic fox is almost pure white, but with a much denser underfur than a Shadow fox.

 

To my knowledge there is no White Fox breed (except for the owner of this website ). White Fox is more a description of the fur's color than an indication of a fox breed. Similarly, almost all black fox is dyed as black colored fox is a rare mutation.

[mailonfurs]

Indeed AK is right,

 

if you take a look at the fox pelts auctioned at Finland (SAGA)

 

http://www.ffs.fi/wps/PA_1_082M6NTK4B0K19GJ5S00000000/db2cmfilereader?id=84+3+ICM8+icmnlsdb5+catbe59+26+A1001001A08L12B13005G3455318+A08L12B13005G345531+14+1022

 

they start auctioning the pelts by size and color. Color categories, from darker to lighter are:

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Dark

Medium

Pale

XPale

2XPale

WHITE

 

 

 

So basically, the White Foxes are the brightest Shadow Foxes.