Foxy Photographer

fairy tale about a girl who found dead animal in the forest and shared it with her warmth, a photo by laura makabresku on Flickr.

I really love this photo and would like to do a painting based on it, but always wonder about how the photographer got the shot. Did the photographer find a dead fox and somehow convince the woman to pose with it? Or could this have been planned shoot with a taxidermied fox?