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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

NGL - I'd take in a fox.

Their giggle is contagious!

https://youtu.be/fQVhppRP4Wo

[-] runjun@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Ya, until you hear its scream In the middle of the night.

[-] StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

And smell what their pee is like.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 20 points 5 months ago

I’ve heard their scenting is pretty unpleasant.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

This is true, you might have to breed for that.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Even the great arctic fox experiment couldn't seem to breed that out.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Curious, I looked it up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

It was done in the 50-90s. So I think we should take another stab at it, now that we know more science!

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Now we can GMO that right out!

[-] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

They also lost their 'musky fox smell'."[6]

From the wiki. So seems like they did breed that out?

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That's news to me. But it's probably been over a decade since I last looked into it. At one point they were even selling domesticated foxes to people as pets but were warning about their scenting. Thanks for the update!

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 5 months ago

Shiba Inu’s are kinda close, and a lot less loud and smelly. They’re like dogs with cat software.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

I want a dog to care about me more than I think they do. But their facial expressions almost make up for it.

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago
[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

Zomg both of my endorphins lit right up watching this 🥰

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 5 months ago

I want a dog to care about me more than I think they do

That would be pretty much any dog, really.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

This is the best fox segment I’ve ever seen on tv

[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 23 points 5 months ago

This is funny, because I just read something the other day that said we started out by domesticating foxes

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

I swear a scientist in Russia already domesticated foxes once.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

This is probably, in the long term, a bad thing. But damn if I don't want a pet fox, raccoon, and capybara. 😍

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The real Russian invasion.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Naruto did it.

this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2024
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