Remember this little dude?

[cebeu]

He's gettin' to be a "fatty" in preperation for the cold season and he's doing well. Hanging-out in the garage this morning. His baby pic is at the bottom from when I initially introduced him to you guys in early 2010.

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/silver10-14-11b.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/silver10-14-11a.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/Gang1.jpg

[Mazin]

He is getting big!

Seems pretty tame.

[nogaroheli]

That's really cool to see the before and after and to see the progress he's made.

I also like your rockin new title :)

[Fentonite]

Great pic - thanks for the update. Do you know what happened to the little red one?

[jackthewall81]

Is that a fox?

[gnihcraes]

thanks for the update, love it! Yes, he's getting fat, but that's good I guess.

[Byte Stryke]

Very cool that you have such a friend.

[cebeu]

nogaroheli - "get off my ass!" [Rant1] [Beer]

Fentonite - "That sibling, there were 4 total in that litter, is doing very well also. I see it quite often but...it's coat/coloring morphed into something extremely weird, nothing else like it that I've seen. Literally looks like 2 completely different foxes with a front half that is very traditional colors and a back half that is this muddled, off-white, gray rough-look and finished-off with a very traditional tail. Ugly if you ask me, pretty skittish but...very healthy and active. More normal size and smaller than the Silver sibling ("Blackie" is big for his kind comparitvely speaking)."

jackethewall81 - "it is."

Byte - "It is cool...another day in the high-country zoo!"

[Lex_Luthor]

I love how he's always looking right at the camera.

[SA Friday]

There's a documentary out there (I've forgotten the name, but probably fairly easy to find from a string search) about testing in Russia on foxes and domestication. The results were pretty amazing. They saw morphological changes when they bred foxes for specific desired personality traits. Essentially, they saw physical change when they bred for lower aggression. They started morphing into..... Dogs.

It's a pretty amazing study and has direct impact on modern gene theory. It implies that in dog species (and others to some extent) the cover can tell quite a bit about the book within certain parameters.

[jackthewall81]

You been feeding him apple and black berries or what! That guy is super comfortable with ya.

[XDMan]

Our neighbors feed the ones around us. Not to keen on that... They just walk around taunting the Pyrenees. He's going nuts barking & trying to break his neck on the lead and they act like they don't even hear him.

"Location: Above Conifer". I'm off Black Mountain. You nearby?

Leo

[rondog]

Next photos gonna be of him curled up in front of your fireplace? That's pretty cool though, lil' foxy hanging out with ya! I'd dig having wildlife coming around, I'm even thrilled with the usual yard bunnies and goldfinches.

[cebeu]

"...You nearby?


Over on Conifer Mountain Leo, Braun Way.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

Nice pics! I havn't seen my foxes for a while. They were getting a little to friendly. Getting in my Dog room, eating my dogs food and Sh*ting on the door step marking thier terratory. Filled in the holes under the fence and pissed on them, havn't seen much of them since.

[Bailey Guns]

Awesome pics! Thanks for sharing his progress. I think the Terriers scare away most of the foxes around here. Had some regulars a few years ago but only see them occasionally now.

You're very lucky!

[Irving]

There's a documentary out there (I've forgotten the name, but probably fairly easy to find from a string search) about testing in Russia on foxes and domestication. The results were pretty amazing. They saw morphological changes when they bred foxes for specific desired personality traits. Essentially, they saw physical change when they bred for lower aggression. They started morphing into..... Dogs.

It's a pretty amazing study and has direct impact on modern gene theory. It implies that in dog species (and others to some extent) the cover can tell quite a bit about the book within certain parameters.

There is a National Geographic at work right now that has this story in it. I think they started the study in Siberia in 1959? There were a bunch of photos of other animals and their changes. There is this one picture of an angry rat standing up in the middle of a rat cage. That study bred rats for something like 23 generations for aggression towards humans.

In the book I'm reading now it talks about domesticable animals and how they are either domesticable, or they aren't. And how every animal that has ever been domesticated changes characteristics. The development of the modern world was done on the backs of domesticating only 14 animals. 5 Major and the 9 Minor. Pretty cool stuff.

[Elhuero]

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r14/cunroe/silver10-14-11b.jpg






"I know you're not gonna just stand there. Go get my food."

[Byte Stryke]

I Still think its cool as hell that you can connect with wildlife like that.

and I think your title is cool as hell.

[Chad4000]

There's a documentary out there (I've forgotten the name, but probably fairly easy to find from a string search) about testing in Russia on foxes and domestication. The results were pretty amazing. They saw morphological changes when they bred foxes for specific desired personality traits. Essentially, they saw physical change when they bred for lower aggression. They started morphing into..... Dogs.

It's a pretty amazing study and has direct impact on modern gene theory. It implies that in dog species (and others to some extent) the cover can tell quite a bit about the book within certain parameters.

very cool stuff...

[Akyla]

Beautiful animal.

[Kmanbay]

There are a couple of dens of the black ones on the west side of horsetooth reservoir, but they are always too shy and run before I get a pic. You guys are awesome, and you sir are lucky.