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Originally Posted by Breezeaway  Some of you might like to watch PBS on dogs.
Heres an excerpt from what happened to foxes after taming.
Very interesting. YouTube - Russian "Tame Foxes" |
Thank you so much for posting this!
What a coincidence....couldn't sleep last night, up at 3 AM...low and behold, this show was on. It's very fascinating and made me think a lot about dog breeding and just exactly what all within a dog is genetically altered by breeding for certain traits.
I've said before of my 3 yorkies, the one with the most terrier personality is Razz, my parti boy. My show breeder boy is timid, and Ruby my puppymill girl isn't quite as timid as Reno but no where near the terrier instinct that Razz has. Makes me wonder if by breeding to achieve that perfect blue/tan coat our yorkies may be losing that terrier instinct, which is one of the traits early breeders bred specifically for, because yorkie were originally ratters.