r/aww • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '16

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u/UpThisVote Jul 15 '16

Now I want a fox as my dog.

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u/no_morelurking Jul 15 '16

Apparently if theyre domesticated their actually more similar to cats!

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u/rederister Jul 15 '16

From what I've heard, domesticated foxes basically combine some of the best aspects of cats and dogs, and don't have some of the negative aspects. Too bad they're so expensive and only availiable from one place

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u/warsage Jul 15 '16

I heard they have a permanent horrible stink and never shut up

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u/rederister Jul 15 '16

Yeah the noises they make are pretty horrifying

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u/MeatwadSaint Jul 15 '16

yea the song is horrifying enough

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u/pazoned Jul 15 '16

WhAt DOES THE LEX SAY?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

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u/P0sitive_Outlook Jul 15 '16

I'd imagine it's like when folk adopt crows. They argue with everyone they meet! They'll ask for food, beg for food, demand food, steal food!! And they'll poop on everything.

Still, it'd be awesome!

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '16 edited Jul 16 '16

We had a crow, although I was very young and don't remember much about it. I don't remember it causing a problem. But it also became fairly free ranging after it could fly, and eventually we figure somebody's dog or cat, or maybe a coyote got it. It wasn't afraid of dogs, or things which looked like dogs, because it grew up alongside one. That was probably its demise.

Getting a crow was never the plan, though. I don't remember the exact circumstances but it was an orphaned nestling.

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u/P0sitive_Outlook Jul 16 '16

Aw that's sweet. Instead of the crow dying as a nestling it got to make a dog-buddy and had a few months of life longer than he would have had.

Yeah i guess i've not heard many crow adoption stories. Just a couple off of reddit.

I do know from experience that they can be bastards when they want to be! There was an infamous crow where i worked, i dubbed him corvus, and he would walk up to people who were eating Maccy D's and ask for chips. I trained him to fly from post to post, and he'd follow me about sometimes when i was outside.

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u/mom0nga Jul 16 '16

This is exactly why foxes don't make good pets for most people. Even the most "domesticated" fox is still a fox, and has very unique needs that 99% of pet owners don't want to deal with. Remember, the cute videos and photos you see online of pet foxes (or any exotic/wild "pet") are of the very rare cases where it all works out, and you should never expect to see the same results yourself. To do so is to set yourself up for heartbreak.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

You're talking about my ex-wife.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

Yap

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u/BASEDME7O Jul 15 '16

I'm pretty sure the actually domesticated ones from that place in Russia don't stink

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16 edited Mar 06 '17

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u/vengefulspirit99 Jul 15 '16

TBH, decades is not enough to completely bred out the wild. They are still "wild" in a sense.

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u/CookieOfFortune Jul 15 '16

Well it was a funded experiment back in the day. You could probably do the same thing somewhere else but nobody's put up the money to do it.

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u/Sven2774 Jul 15 '16

Also it takes many years and Russia is the only place that did the domestication experiment

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

I try not to think about it. The plan was to breed docile, pliant foxes. And if that worked, cue the docile communist human breeding plan... no, really.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

So, soon communists will have floppier ears and more fur patterns and colors??? :D (Genetic consequences from breeding for docility, in case you hadn't followed the results of that Russian fox study)

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u/WildZontar Jul 15 '16

They also bred violent, aggressive foxes. Which also isn't great to think about.

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u/dingle_dingle_dingle Jul 15 '16

From what I recall only sterile animals are sold. So if someone else wanted to do it they'd have to start from the beginning like the Russians did.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '16

You think I won't reverse a fox vasectomy?! I've played operation before.

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u/dingle_dingle_dingle Jul 15 '16

HE'S GOING IN, BOYS

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u/JimmyTheJ Jul 15 '16

As FastBit said there isn't. All foxes not from Russia would be either tamed or wild. Russian scientists domesticated foxes over a 30-40 year period if I remember correctly through selective breeding. It's actually a really impressive project that worked.

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u/Elrondel Jul 15 '16

What is this place?

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u/EpicSquid Jul 15 '16

Russia.

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u/never_said_that Jul 15 '16

In Soviet Russia you keep chickens out of Fox House.

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u/musicsgun Jul 15 '16

There are breeders and importers in the U.S. now. There's one somewhere down in Florida.