User blog comment:JoxFox2109/PG Proposal: Judy Hopps/@comment-26083398-20191007133358/@comment-43941699-20191007205117

I can see that. If one had been attacked by a dog, sometimes once can develop a fear of dogs; it's an understandable fear. That doesn't mean that it can never be overcome. And Judy does overcome her fear of foxes as she became friends with Nick and was sympathetic towards him when he tells her his backstory. That is far from xenophobia. Xenophobic people are never interested in the lives of people they fear and hate. By the way, it's tragic when people confuse fear with hate; but it is possible to be feared and respected; special cases when they do go together is that when one feels a bond for the person you fear. Judy never said anything against foxes in spite of her fear of them, but like I said, she overcame that fear when she fully bonds with Nick. I'm not a psychologist or a therapist, but we are all familiar with fear, right? We dread it, but we can overcome it.