The fox and the hound movie was released 1981, but the book on which it is based was released in 1967. The following is the true story of novel about the Fox and the Hound, and not the Disney censored version The book and the movie are quite different, as the book was adult oriented with the fox's land being taken over by the cities, and Todd the fox ends up as a skin on the hunter's wall and Copper ends up being put down by his owner. As for the old hound that Copper meets up with in the movie, Todd gets him killed by accident.