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daydreamer wrote:Griffinlover wrote:
Actually its saving them from being made in to coats. The left over foxes are sold to fur breeders.
“Saving” them? Why are they breeding them in the FIRST place is more my problem. Just to sell as a novelty pet?
(okay, maybe you guys already went over it, i just don’t have tons of time to read each post right now)
Hehehe
I was going to not bother with this but I will touch a bit.
No they weren’t originally bred for Pets (& probably still aren’t, it is after all a Russian experiment). What happened was they tried to breed Foxes that were more Docile & easier to handle for the Russian Fox Fur Trade. However they discovered that when they tried to bred them to be friendlier that their Fur colour/pattern is actually highly linked to the genes responsible for Personality. Better Colour for Fur Trade from more vicious Foxes. But the friendlier ones often ended up in the Pied patterns. They also discovered that Foxes are incredibly receptive to Tameness breeding, just again for a Fur Trade that coat colour is a HUGE problem.
So in Russia they’re trying to find a way to separate out & build up the more docile fur animals.foxfeather wrote:skeeterdeee wrote:Last week it was between 45 and 70 degrees all week, it was GORGEOUS! In the past two hours we have gotten 8 inches of snow (SO FAR!). WTF? Make up your mind, weather!! 🙄
That sounds like Calgary. We have roller coaster weather. It’s cold for a few days, a chinnok blows in, its warm for a couple of days and then its cold again. repeat. It’s not uncommon to get temperature changes of 20 degrees in a few hours when the chinooks blow in
Monday was +1 (33F) yesterday was -15 (-5F), today is -25 (-13F)Yeah Edmonton is hovering down around -20C/-4F & below, before wind & down below-30C/-22F for the next 2 weeks. Well with the exception of Saturday where we’re supposed to pop up to -3C/27F for the Day & plummet right back down on Sunday. 🙄 I have become quite the Winter Wuss & I hate this shit like the Black Plague!
Oh & to rub salt in the wound, My Mom’s currently in Barbados, with 3 of my Aunts & a Brother-Cousin & his Girlfriend. If we didn’t have New Baby, we probably would be with ’em. 😥
I’ve “researched” this “Line” of domestic foxes for nearly 2 decades (yes I’m only 30 if that tells you anything) & the stuff that goes with it(Snap may have seen me with some of my Genetic researching once in a while). Every couple months I start hunting more info, but also with other captive/domestic lines.
Whatever else (& I’m going to steer clear of it) the Importation part is a MAJOR part of why they must be sold to North American’s Fixed. That way there is little to no chance that they will escape & interbreed with “Native” North American Fox species, muddying up the Gene Pool. Yeah look at “Invasive Species” to see that fun.
Dragon & Ruffian- These being Fixed we may be able to get Permits to keep them, even here in Alberta (Yeah I’ve been looking it up 😆 ). But if I move back “Home” I’m getting one, weather from the Russian Programs or from my Uncle who breeds/rescues them. I was promised one way back when(I think it was ’88, could have been earlier), & the only reason I didn’t bring my Kit(s) home was because I was a Little Kid, & my Mom had say on my Pets.
Oh my am I ever in love with the Numbat colouration!
That baby.
That Male.
& Oh *squeak* That little Numbat bat!!
I thought I was loving the Okapi,m but not half as much!eaglefeather831 wrote:Thank God she only had a UTI, but it was a really bad one, and so I feel really bad about not taking her to the vet sooner when I did suspect blood, but I didn’t see any in the snow or after I wiped her. I asked the vet what the other signs were, and she wasn’t showing any of those signs. Poor baby is probably in pain (she isn’t showing it) but the vet said that larger dogs don’t tend to show pain. 🙁
It worried me so much when I saw it! But I am so glad it is something that is being treated with antibiotics. We go back in two weeks because, since it is advanced, she isn’t sure that only two weeks of antibiotics will clear it.Jube’s had her on a Kidney food for a year(to help be easier on it just in case she did some real damage. since I didn’t notice until she wasn’t just peeing little bits of Blood but big Pools, since the Male had been walking her & I had just whimed on taking her out for a walk that day) & back in less than a month for a second one. But she’s been clear for over a year now & off actual Kidney diet for just about 6 Months.
Here’s hoping everything comes along even better for you guys. Hopefully you caught it earlier!Poor Puppy.
Went through this a couple Summers ago with Jubilee.
It turned out that it was a Vicious UTI & they were surprised that she wasn’t in any pain, or well any that absolutely anyone could tell.
I was expecting stones since she is a High White Dalmatian.
Note she turned 12 that Summer & will turn 15 this summer & is still going very very strong. (Except for a really nasty Ear infection right now.)DantheDragon wrote:Lupin wrote:Ok so I managed to get in, but then it told me my Graphics Card is incompatible with it. 🙄
Doooh! Totally incompatible, or do you just need to update your drivers? D:
Ask Snap, he was the last to work on Franken-Comp, but it said Complete Incompatibility. 😥
Lol, apparently my Beta’s were always spoiled rotten. I jkept them in 50Gallon tanks. The 10 Gallon was for water changes/cleanings.
But then again I somehow managed to keep Goldfish, Betas, Glass fish, & Zebras alive in the same tank(for 4 years), & used Bleach to clean it weekly, also completely dumped my Tanks water then too. Then I learned that I was Doing it wrong. & well yeah they didn’t live to long after I knew all that.So a few rather unflattering pics of my Puppy-Butt Jubilee.
Conehead!
“Khym!! Screw off & Leave ME the Hell ALONE!!! “
“Momma, get him to leave me alone”twindragonsmum wrote:You have an absolutely BEAUTIFUL family! I like the haircuts too 😀
twindragonsmum 😀
Thanks I believe they deserved a Heck Yeah! 😉
DantheDragon wrote:There’s an open beta going on this week, so if you sign up on the site, hopefully you can still get in. I recommend playing to at least level 15 to get a feel for the dynamic content.
It wont let me sign up at this moment.
I was hoping to, since I have been playing WoW since Original Beta Testing. My Ex was one of those who’d called in work sick to get into it, which was an advantage for me since I couldn’t do so with University at the time.OMG
I just love that little white spot on Titan’s Forehead, off all on it’s own.
Made me Think all the world of a Cocky little gentleman with his hat to one side!!We got a Family Picture taken to show off our new Hair cuts. It’s our current Household minus the “Girls” (Dog & Cat).
Maga (My Mom)
Momma, Dadda
Princess Tiny, & Bug Boo
& more pics of the Princess
Going home from the hospital brand spanking new but in the same dress I wore home from the hospital nearly 30 years earlier.
Just on the Outside
First time in her Cloak, which she inherited from me, My Mommy made it for me.
Her First Christmas & Santa pic (Ok 3rd there were 2 others with her proud big brother taken before this)
VERY Proud Big Brother!
