The correct answer here would be the first option.
The foxes definitively are not leading Dixon anywhere, it is just a figure of speech, a figurative language that is used here. Figurative speech uses something like a metaphor to explain or show something by using something that resembles the thing being shown or explained. Here the it is shown that he is so well known that even a thing that even the foxes know him and trust him.
In standard english, there is a set of rules that one has to follow to make perfect sentences that MAKE SENSE In non-standard english, some of it wouldnt make sense as in a sentence, however, the listener would still understand the message (hopefully)
hope this helps