This fox is only about the size of a house cat, standing about 30 centimeters high and weighing about 2.7 kilograms. The swift fox gets its name because it can reach speeds of 40 km per hour. The swift fox is about two thirds the size of the red fox. The most common places where you would find foxes are in northern areas such as Canada. They like living in winter temperature zones, especially in meadows and coniferous forests.
Foxes like to live in forests near rivers, and sometimes in mountains, hills and rolling meadows.
Adult foxes have home ranges that vary in size depending on the quality of the habitat. During some parts of the year, adjacent ranges may overlap somewhat, but parts may be regularly defended. In other words, foxes are, at least partly, territorial. Ranges are occupied by an adult male and one or two adult females with their young. Individual foxes and family groups have main earthen dens and often other emergency burrows in the home range.