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I have returned and have refined the fox 'rival' to the cutter rabbit.
While most people would instantly think fences, I instead based it off the thing people used to successfully try and rid of the rabbits - the Myxoma virus used in bait. Not really, a much lighter concept stringing from it though. How about this:
The fox mon 'plants' itself into the ground with it's hind facing the surface, the tail resembles a bush/shrub with flowers resembling flowering vegetables (makes for good camouflage for the fox mon as well as acting like bait) and attracts the cutter rabbits. When the rabbit(s) approaches to eat/cut it, the fox jumps out and using it's agile limbs, promptly chases after the rabbit(s), when it catches up to it/them, it injects poison into the rabbit through its fangs and thorns/pricks/stingers/sharp bits on its joints. But you're probably thinking "Foxy, poison has no effect against steel (one of the most logical choices for a cutter rabbit with head/tail shears/scissors) ,this is stupid." That's where the fox's signiture ability will come in - an ability that allows it to bypass steel type's immunity to poison type attacks. Similar to the virus, it is able to break through the rabbit's resistances. Likewise, the fox mon would/could be part poison? The fox mon could be used by humans to rid of the cutter rabbit pests who keep cutting through fences and eating crops (similar to how the virus was put in bait to rid of rabbits eating crops after the fences failed). Suggested typings by people have been Normal/Fighting (to mirror the rabbit if Normal/Steel), just Fighting or Fighting/Poison (because while the rabbit is 'natural', the fox was specifically intoduced/bred to hunt down the rabbit. Fighting type always felt like an artificial type based on behaviour, which is one of the key things breeding manipulates)(Poison being based on the virus). Not grass as the plant elements are more of a camouflage gimmick. Thoughts?
