Scientists Turn Silver Foxes into Pets

The term "silver fox" is often used when referring to senior citizens and it is used in a funny, ironic way. The term silver fox is used to indicate that just because you have reached a certain age, this does not mean that you are ready to throw in the towel. Instead, silver foxes are out there living life to the fullest and enjoying themselves. Silver foxes are not tame at all...or are they?

In contrast to the term silver fox in its use to describe fun and feisty seniors, the tame silver foxes of Russia are just that: tame. It has taken almost fifty years for this to happen, but scientists in Russia have domesticated the silver fox.

The silver foxes, once wild and unafraid to show their teeth, have now taken on the personality traits of your average domesticated dog. Some of the changes that these newly tame silver foxes went through were that they: become increasingly friendlier to human beings, started to wag their tails to indicate happiness, started to bark as dogs are prone to do and they list their musky fox scent.

Some of the funds to keep the project of domesticating silver foxes came from selling the silver foxes as pets, but towards that end of the 1990s the were having some financial difficulty.

Still, it is quite amazing to think that a team of scientists worked for years to take the wild silver fox and turn it into the kind of animal you would welcome into your house as a pet. It must have taken quite a lot of work to take a creature like the silver fox and turn it into an animal that behaves like a dog.

Maybe you know of some other amazing experiments involving not silver foxes, but silver itself…Did you know that a silver refiner can take you silver objects--silver jewelry, sterling silver flatware or silver coins--and turn it into cash for silver? And here is the best part—it will not take fifty years worth of experimenting to make this happen.

You will not have to brave the cold of a Russian winter or even the cold of a winter in your neck of the woods either. You can contact a silver buyer online and they will send you a postage paid envelope. Put your silver objects into the envelope and send your silver in to be evaluated and the silver buyer will give you instant cash for silver.