garrote -  I just watched Dogs Decoded the other day. Pretty cool stuff. Wish it was longer though. They were talking about how they mapped out the genome of a boxer, then went on about how they use that info to find out about diseases and such. But I just wanted to see how they got a boxer from a wolf. Ya know?

Missing Glove Tape - Beautiful animals, but you don't want to fuck around with a coyote as a pet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqVE9qfg7yI

Missing Glove Tape - Beautiful animals, but you don't want to fuck around with a coyote as a pet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqVE9qfg7yI

kinkle - Awesome..... well until it gets loose and eats a fucking kid.

Wicked Enzo -  I have a 1:4 coyote and she is the nest dog ever. Loyal as any dog and is crazy smart plus very protective of me and her yard but generally good with people. If u come into the basement through the house no problem but you try and go through the back door you better watch out unless I'm there.

The Persian Devil - So there are people who breed foxes for 8 generations so they can say they regularly cuddle with a fox?

Fox 'may have been prehistoric man's best friend'

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 8:43 AM on 28th January 2011

Early man may have preferred the fox as a pet rather than dogs, new findings suggest.
 

Researchers analysing remains at a prehistoric burial ground in Jordan have uncovered a grave in which a fox was buried with a human, dated thousands of years before dogs were kept as companions.

Their research suggests that the fox may have been kept as a pet and was being buried to accompany its master, or mistress, to the afterlife.

If so, it marks the first known burial of its kind and suggests that long before man hunted foxes using dogs, our ancestors were keeping them as pets.

The cemetery, at Uyun-al-Hammam, in northern Jordan, is about 16,500 years old, which makes the grave 4,000 years older than the earliest known human-dog burial.

However, the close relationship between man and fox was probably short-lived. Writing in the journal, PLoS One, published today, the researchers say it is unlikely foxes were ever fully domesticated and, despite their early head start, humans took to the more companionable dog for pets as time went on.

Studies carried out on foxes suggest that they can be brought under human control, but that the process is not easy because they are skittish and timid  - so perhaps for that reason, the researchers suggest, dogs ultimately achieved 'best friend' status among humans instead.