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.

[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!"

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.