Are foxes canines or felines?
>>5050264caninescats are fox software running on crappy hardware
>>5050264They're mustelids.
>>5050266Not so crappy, claws are sharp enough to hurt their owners, but their fur is soft enough to still be loved
>>5050266>immediate cat seethelmaooo
>>5050264Is it impossible to keep foxes as pets? Are they not domesticated? I remember reading posts about some specific bred made to be domesticated, and even accepts leashes.
>>5050328Depends on your definition of "pet"The Soviets started a breeding program in the 50s with the end goal of replicating the canine domestication process but with foxes intially from fur farms as the subject. The program largely fell apart with the fall of the Soviet Union and is now a small pet project by the academic meaning of the term. Whenever you see someone with a pet fox 9 times out of 10 they will be a fox whose bloodline comes from that breeding program. Roughly 45,000 foxes were bred from it over the course of 35 generations and the process was largely a failure.The foxes never became fully or even partially domesticated despite the intensive selective breeding of the most docile and friendliest specimens available. The extent of any behavioral change was that the foxes bred were not wholly skittish or hostile to human handlers, meaning they were often "docile" compared to wildtype specimens. This docility correlated with dark fur patterns which led to a good number of the foxes to form dark or spotted coats, which has been an interesting finding in fairness to the research and people have applied it to how other domesticated animals develop their fur coats. But regardless of how unreactive the foxes were, they were never domesticated. "Tame" is a better way of putting it, and while the foxes don't run off or bite handlers, they don't have an active interest in you unless you go out of your way to interact them, while dogs even as puppies will instinctually take an active interest in you due to being a domesticated species of animal.In other words: you can get "pet" foxes. But what you will get is an undomesticated/feral cat in a canine body and a massive price tag on top of that. You're better off getting a ginger/red spitz or another long muzzled fluffy breed of dog.
>>5050264look at that protrouding snout. ugly. that can't be felines. cats have dainty small noses that is an absolute aesthetic perfection.
>>5050409>cats have dainty small noses that is an absolute aesthetic perfectionWrong.
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>>5050466Snoot and jowls, the perfect combo
>>5050409Cats are ugly brood parasites that half assedly mimic infants to the standard of gays, liberal women, and schizophrenics. Born halfway to being a pug, with a third of their brain missing to boot. No wonder they need mind controlling parasites to get people to like them. Their profile is eerily pitbull like.
