#not stamping approval or whatever it’s honestly more unsettling like a horror reveal that the same must’ve happened with wolves

[dozydawn]

thinking about mechta (dream) the first of the domesticated foxes to have floppy ears

“In 1969, the 10th generation of foxes was born, and among them was a pup that she named Mechta, the Russian word for dream. In wild foxes, a pup’s ears are floppy until it is about two weeks old, at which point its ears take on the ramrod-straight look we tend to picture when we think of foxes. When Mechta was three weeks old, her ears had not yet straightened. They still hadn’t at four weeks, nor at five. Mechta looked exactly like a dog pup.”