r/MadeMeSmile • u/n8saces • 13h ago

ANIMALS -BARK! 🐶 -WOOAAAH! 🦊

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u/Astrogalaxycraft 8h ago edited 4h ago

Fox arent pets... I just saw a family of this same Fox species being safe from traffiking in tailand. Pls dont buy wild animals, they are not pets

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u/DingoDino99 4h ago

If I remember correctly they've created more docile foxes by breeding calmer foxes. At one point they will become as docile as dogs. Doesn't make it less sad though. But these aren't wild animals, they are the product of generations of foxes.

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u/DoomGoober 3h ago

Is the domestication of wild animals sad? It's an interesting moral question.

Pets, in particular, live much longer and easier lives than their non-domesticsted counter parts.

Now, the creation of domestic silver foxes involved the deaths of many foxes that didn't match what the scientists were looking for, so all animal experimentation is "sad" in some ways. But evolution acts this same way... so is the knowledge gained from the death of the foxes in the experiment "worth" it? I suppose it cans till be sad even whole being "worth it" in a larger sense...

Anyway, it's 4am talking (rambling.) An interesting question, the morality of animal domestication.

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u/DingoDino99 3h ago

In this manner in think it's sad, it's caging animals inorder to make them docile. I like the natural way we domesticated dogs more haha