Tamed fox of Irina Mukhamedshina
Young Siberian scientist Irina Mukhamedshina, 22, has trained a fox to be as obedient as a dog. The experiment was on her own initiative, she used foxes from a special Novosibirsk Institute of Cytology and Genetics farm. ‘I had seen these foxes daily, wiggling their tails and jumping to get a tiniest bit of human attention, and got really curious about the possibility of working with them the same way as I used to do with dogs’, said Irina. I moved on to the classic commands, such as ‘stand up’, ‘lie down’, ‘sit down’. It took me about three weeks of daily 15 minutes sessions to teach them do these commands.’ The foxes recognized their own names. Both foxes worked very well. Psychologically I understand them better now. Tamed foxes are not quite like dogs, they are more in between dogs and cats in how they respond to humans’.

Tamed fox of Irina Mukhamedshina

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