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Dogs and foxes cannot interbreed, because they have vastly differing chromosome counts.

The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) has 34; the dog (Canis lupus familiaris) has 70.

So no, you can't breed a fox and a dog, and you would call the offspring "impossible".

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