Pet foxes
Apparently scientific boffins are breeding foxes as pets. All that science makes them lonely you see.
(Via National Geographic)
Friday, March 04, 2005
Apparently scientific boffins are breeding foxes as pets. All that science makes them lonely you see.
(Via National Geographic)
8 Comments:
How cute. Wish They would breed some of these changed foxes in the U.S.
wait they are breeding foxes as pets...so what are they mixing them with to make them not so....RAWR or w.e.
are they breeing them with dogs? cause i havent seen a black and white fox before
really looks like a dog and fox mix
OMG!!!!!! They are so adorable!!
They're breeding them with other foxes, kelsey.
See, there's this 45 year old study being conducted in Siberia where foxes (that were originally being bred for fur) were being bred for tameness. Only the ones that were the least aggressive when humans approached them were allowed to breed (with other non-aggressive foxes). That's how they became semi-tame. Besides, you can't cross-breed foxes and dogs. Their DNA is to different. They won't breed.
An interesting thing they found with these foxes is as they became tamer, their appearance started to change too. The developed a white blaze on the forehead, their tails started to curl, their ears started to droop and their coats became spotted. Yeah, they started to look kinda dog-like (although I think it's pretty certain that dogs came from wolves, not foxes).
Just google siberia domesticated foxes and see what you get.
is it really a fox?it lookes sooooooooooooooo much like a dog!oh well i love both
Uhh. All these people have know idea that they just shaved the dog exept for that one stripe and then they just dyed the stripe.
Yah sure a fox/dog. right.
Anonymous, before you go trying to sound superior to the rest of the commenters, please get your facts straight. Your correction of Kelsey's statement is completely false. Foxes could most certainly breed with other dogs. The common house hold dog (canis domesticus) shares DNA that parallels that of the fox (canis vulpes). As you can see by their proper "scientific" names, they have an identical genus (even if the species are seperate). Any so-called "dog" of the canine family is capable of breeding with other dogs; including foxes and "pet dogs". And I wouldn't be so sure dogs came from wolves only (and not foxes) seeing as foxes are, in fact, dogs.
Wowsers! ( Hahaha! Ms. Bartok) cute! Gimme one!
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