The 24th movie in the list of Disney animated movies , the movie is about two unlikely friends , a red fox and a hound dog , who have trouble preserving their friendship because of their emerging instincts . The 24th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series , the film tells the story of two unlikely friends , a red fox named Tod and a hound dog named Copper , who struggle to preserve their friendship despite their emerging instincts and the surrounding social pressures demanding them to be adversaries .