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At the age of 20,I had a great idea of raising Silver Fox LOL .I took care of them as good as many good dog owners take care of their dogs .I collected urine from them for my own personal use on the Trapline .Urine that was collected was done from November til February.Fox were fed during that time an assortment of meat (beaver,muskrat,ect.)Learned a good bit about fox in general .Granted ,they were more domesticated than Wild .When time warrants ,I may get back into it a bit .Figured some may find it interesting.

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6 minutes ago, grampy said:

Very cool and interesting!

What was the the most profound thing you learned, from the time you kept them?

Probably their vocalization .I had 13 fox in total.The way they constantly communicate with many different sounds to each other was cool.I know wild k9s do,but to be around it daily was interesting.

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A cool classic neuroscience experiment was done using silver foxes. I think you'll enjoy this fun review: https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-018-0090-x

or https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-best-friend-a-forgotten-russian-experiment-in-fox-domestication/

But also to highlight the importance of open scientific discourse, here you'll see a more recent study that brings some of the methodology into question: https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(19)30302-7

or: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/science/foxes-tame-belyaev.html

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57 minutes ago, Versatile_Hunter said:

A cool classic neuroscience experiment was done using silver foxes. I think you'll enjoy this fun review: https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12052-018-0090-x

or https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-best-friend-a-forgotten-russian-experiment-in-fox-domestication/

But also to highlight the importance of open scientific discourse, here you'll see a more recent study that brings some of the methodology into question: https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(19)30302-7

or: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/science/foxes-tame-belyaev.html

Nice read .

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I once had an old time fur rancher out of Indiana  reach out to me and send me a big box full of Magazines on Fur Farming .

Although I never got involved with the ranching aspect ,the info about mutations ,genetics are awesome to read about .It was truly a different time then .I was born a tad too late .

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