Quote Originally Posted by JLC View Post
Look at those horrible little cages those guys are living in!

I don't know what any tv special might have said about these, but calling them "domesticated" is a HUGE stretch. "Tame"....maybe. I have my doubts about even that. But an animal like that is a looong way from being domesticated.
I'm not sure what "little cages" you saw. I don't see anything that shows the size of their cages at all.

They did have some "domesticated" foxes. They bred the tamest of the tamest for several generations and ended up with foxes that acted very domesticated and their ears tended to be more floppy. All domestication process is, is breeding for tameness. If they act completely domesticated, then what stops them from getting the label of domesticated species? Not just training, they bred specifically for tameness, instead of for color or coat. Just tameness and handleability. There was a couple papers on them at some point years ago, but I haven't seen anything new in years about it.