11-13-2016, 04:24 AM
Yes I hope those foxes and their descendants will be treated with kindness and compassion. To make money they have been selling the foxes as pets, so let's hope that continues successfully....
I feel very sorry for the ones who didn't quite 'make the grade' in the breeding program though. Any vestige of their natural Selves, and they were made into fur coats. Sad. But of course in Soviet Russia, the only thing that could keep the project running was the fact that it was basically a fur farm.
However the experiments do show that it doesn't take many generations to breed a domestic animal from a wild one with selective breeding. It's fascinating.
Misty was a dog who was Alpha, in a very gentle way but an Alpha type nevertheless. She tolerated no nonsense and would put other dogs in their place. Many people on walks came up to us for her to teach their wayward pups a lesson! One person said his pup had never behaved badly with another dog again since Misty taught it a lesson!
It was good that he understood. She was not aggressive, just had a motherliness which was tough love sometimes.
She would not have happily shared space with that female wolf dog. There would have been ructions.
I feel very sorry for the ones who didn't quite 'make the grade' in the breeding program though. Any vestige of their natural Selves, and they were made into fur coats. Sad. But of course in Soviet Russia, the only thing that could keep the project running was the fact that it was basically a fur farm.
However the experiments do show that it doesn't take many generations to breed a domestic animal from a wild one with selective breeding. It's fascinating.
Misty was a dog who was Alpha, in a very gentle way but an Alpha type nevertheless. She tolerated no nonsense and would put other dogs in their place. Many people on walks came up to us for her to teach their wayward pups a lesson! One person said his pup had never behaved badly with another dog again since Misty taught it a lesson!
It was good that he understood. She was not aggressive, just had a motherliness which was tough love sometimes.She would not have happily shared space with that female wolf dog. There would have been ructions.
