Foxes do lead you to the interesting place near by. I tried this the other night based on another thread on Foxes. Each time I followed one, it lead me right to something worth investigating, be it a shrine or a cave or vein or a chest or a corpse or whatever. Most of these things were unmarked so those trying to find all the places in the game would be well advices to follow the foxes around.

And following fish leads you to water. Oh, wait.

LOL.

I dunno OP... correlation does not imply causation.

That's how superstitions are born.

I follow'd a fox down a dark ally and he... touch me.

See that dirt slider? Follow your nose, it will lead you to a Nord's armpit.

Every time I see a bandit, it leads me to an arrow in the knee.

Everytime i follow a fox it usually gets killed by a bear or wolfs......

Exactly. I might try this "foxes-lead-to-gold-ore-veins thing", but it would probably end up like that.

foxes lead to ore veins? .... what is this witchcraft !

Ok I followed a Fox, untill it got killed by a Mudcrab.

I can believe this.

Dammit! Now I wont be able to resist following those foxes next time I play!

No, only death and destruction. They are evil creatures indeed.

Horrible creatures, I avoid them whenever I can

Oh yeah and follow giants leads to bandits, true story.

I been attacked by fox one time you imagine my surprise when a fox challenged my powerful mage (of DOOM). It sadly died near
winterhold, poor foxy, why'd you do it?

A fox does not simply lead you an ore vein.

I don't know about that I watched a fox jump off a cliff one time, it seems more like coincidence.

I follow them because it's for some reason fun to do like playing headbutt the sign in Whiterun.

I once followed a fox for 10 minutes. It led me nowhere.

I saw a rabbit the other day. Nasty creature. I steered clear of it.

Yeah, those rabbits are evil and dangerous! I have proof!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg

I chase those cute foxes all over the place and I don't remember having one lead to me to ore before...

Fox run in random directions, but normally away from you. They also stop quite often. There are ore veins ALL over skyrim. The probability of a fox taking you relatively close(easy to spot) to an ore vein within a 5 minute span of time is fairly high, really high if you give him 10 minutes and there are no enemies. Now if following them always resulted in a silver or gold ore, and they always walked over the ore then stopped on top of it for exactly 10 seconds then they ran to the next ore vein that would be interesting.

Seeing that if you follow an NPC who says they are going to X, and they normally don't actually end up going there I highly doubt they made the fox go somewhere special.



If you follow mudcrabs you find boredom. If you follow chickens you find eggs. If you follow Mammoths you find Giants. If you follow butterflies you find yourself running off a cliff to your death!

Follow the white rabbit and it will show how deep the rabbit hole goes