Hope this is the right place and just wanted to share because I think it's cool.
You can buy a fox as a companion here that has bred for many generations as a part of an experiment in domestication. I encourage reading up on some of the details of the experiment. Fascinating stuff, though the "failures" were sent off to fur farms to be killed for fur which is sad.
I have seen a TV show on this experiment. It is fascinating...its like they fast forwarded the domestication of dogs. While I don't really care for how the foxes were kept, I think there are definite benefits to what they learned/are learning. Those little fox pups are adorable!
Now they just need to start selectively breeding the smallest foxes so we can have the vulpine equivalent of a chihuahua. ..
If I am correct in guessing part of how chihuahuas were originally created.
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Thanks, I do know that, Maybe my post wasn't clear enough.
If chihuahuas are basically mini wolves, then mini foxes could also be created?.
Then again along this same line, I'm not sure I would want it done if more rejects go to be killed for fur.
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Kitty I used to really think they came from Fennec's! LOL actually about a year ago on here I posted asking what people thought...since then, I actually learned more about the DNA, and it seems impossible to me that they could be related to the Fennec...sad But I considering the amount of DNA they share with wolves and the inability to be bred to something like a Fennec makes me think they just resemble each other.
Domesticated foxes.
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