Can someone prove to me that dogs are canines?

[quaker bill]

60. Russians have done so with foxes

For many generations now they have been running an experiment where they have been cross breeding the most tame foxes in captivity as well as cross breeding the most aggressive.

Over a dozen generations they have developed some very tame and some very aggressive foxes. The very aggressive foxes breed more or less to type, except that they become nasty hyper aggressive, they otherwise look and sound pretty much like the wild animals.

However the interesting bit comes from the tame x tame crosses. Not only do these foxes become more or less completely domesticated, the body shape changes, the coat coloring and patterning changes to look more like patterns commonly seen in dogs, even their vocalization changes to something more dog-like. Another dozen or so generations breeding for body type and coat pattern and they likely would have any number of different appearing models of pet foxes, just like dogs, but generally smaller.