Domesticated foxes

[sholio]

I'd read about this before, but never thought to look them up on Youtube. Basically, a Russian researcher deliberately bred silver foxes for tameness (so they would be easier to harvest for fur). What he discovered, unexpectedly, is that as the foxes grew more tame, they also started to exhibit a whole bunch of dog characteristics along with the tameness -- floppy ears, spotted coats, barking, wagging, and generally acting like dogs.

And the video of them ... my first reaction was OH GOD FREAKY, because they have fox bodies and fox tails, but they move just like dogs, with the wagging and bouncing. And my second reaction was SO CUTE! WANT!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enrLSfxTqZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzTcmE-pMLU

(ETA: Apparently they do sell them as pets. Now I really want one!)

Comments

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

p.s. I tried changing a couple of answers that I'd waffled on, and ended up with this:

Your Type is
ISTP
Introverted 44%
Sensing 62%
Thinking 1%
Perceiving 78%

The descriptors for that one, here (http://keirsey.com/handler.aspx?s=keirsey&f=fourtemps&tab=4&c=crafter) and here (http://typelogic.com/istp.html), sound a lot more like him.

(Oh, for pete's sake! Edited to fix HTML *again*.)

[kuna-yashmaa.livejournal.com]

:D that's better, for I thought *I'm* prejudiced.