Remember this little dude?

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

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

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.

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Over on Conifer Mountain Leo, Braun Way.

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.

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!

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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.

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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.

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

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

and I think your title is cool as hell.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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very cool stuff...