Feline and Pet News

Hey guys, just got back to Salt Lake City and I figured it was time to get back to writing: The answer to that dog question in the title is so unexpected, if not for a Russian geneticist named Dmitri Belyaev, the answer might never have been guessed. In Belyaev’s village in Siberia, a group of fox farmers asked him if he could help them to breed a less vicious fox. He started out with the tamest of the group’s foxes. He bred them, and after 10 generations of breeding only the tamest of foxes–a very unexpected thing happened!
The tails of the foxes began to turn up. The ears started turning down. They began to bark–and foxes are not supposed to bark! No need for dog grooming services for them. They started to have variations in their coats. It was theorized that tamer (less easily frightened) animals do not produce as much adrenaline as wilder animals. This was borne out with a test of the foxes’ adrenaline levels. Scientists know that adrenaline is on the same biochemical pathway that also goes to melanin, which accounts for coat color.
It is now thought that the variations in the animals are correlated to hormone levels. As a side note if you need salt lake city dog grooming services in Utah then take a peak at Coddles Critters, they are among the elite such dog grooming outfits, in my humble opinion, in all of Salt Lake City. These hormones set off changes that caused the amazing degree of variation in the foxes. Because it is highly likely that the tamest wolves were the ones who were attracted to man, and vice-versa, that the “tame” hormones were selected-for over the generations, causing the wolf to become the dog we know today. No need for grooming a wolf I suppose.