Fleet feet! Fennec fox sprints around owner for attention

For fox sake! Deadpan owner ignores Felix the fennec fox as he sprints around in circles to try and get her attention

Fennec fox Felix runs loops around his owner as he tries to get her attention
But she is reading a book and doesn't bat an eyelid at the astonishing fox
Felix gets bored and stops, leaving his owner smiling at the camera

This is the astonishing moment Felix the fennec fox sprinted around his owner as she sat on a sofa reading at their Tennessee home and didn't even bat an eyelid. The nimble animal was trying to get his owner's attention because he wanted her to play with him. The fox could be seen running around at hilarious speed to try and make his owner put her book down. WATCH VIDEO >> https://www.jukinmedia.com/licensing/view/980783 Sadly for Felix he fails to attract her attention. The fennec fox is a small nocturnal fox found in the Sahara of North Africa, the Sinai Peninsula and the Arabian desert. Its most distinctive feature is its unusually large ears ![47C887B100000578-5239263-image-a-3_1515165922201.jpg](

) Felix the fennec fox (left) can be seen zooming around his owner as he tries to get her attention and make her play with him The footage shows Felix's owner sitting on a sofa with a blanket draped over her legs as she reads Hard Times by Charles Dickens. She must have been reading a particularly riveting passage as she completely ignored the nimble and extremely distracting fox zooming around her. After Felix gets bored and runs away, his owner looks at the camera and laughs, suggesting that she is well used to the fox's ways. ![47C887BF00000578-5239263-image-a-4_1515165972300.jpg](

) The nimble fox loops around, underneath and over the pages of his owner's book but she doesn't even blink Felix looks incredibly fast as he sprints around his owner. The nimble fox loops around, underneath and over the pages of his owner's book but she doesn't even blink at his astonishing display of speed. Felix seems used to not getting his own way and runs off when he realises that she isn't going to play with him