a follow-up, "the fox and the hound 2", was released directly-to-dvd on december 12, 2006. the follow-up takes place during the childhood of tod and copper. this is before the events of the later half of the first movie. the story-line is about copper wanting to join a band of singing stray dogs. this puts his friendship with tod to the test. the follow-up received negative reception. critics considered it to be a poor copy of the first movie.