Ceiridwen accompanies Anastasiya Kharlamova to Novosibirsk fox farm.MOD

The fox farm in Novosibirsk, Russia, site of the most famous domestication experiment in the world, currently houses 3,000 silver foxes. Each open-air wooden shed holds 100 or so animals in adjacent wire cages, each measuring one cubic yard. All wire above, below, and on both sides, the cages have no toys, no stimulation of any kind, except for a cast-aluminum food tray that rotated like a lazy Susan on an axis so that food can be placed on the tray from outside the cage.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Belyaev
• silver fox
• domestication experiment
• genetic tameness
• Siberia
• Russia

[IOmegadUrMom]

@whee38 Its not like money grows out of thin air and allows them to get better living conditions. They lost their main funding years ago from what I know and have to make due, you for for science.

[whee38]

Started by the Soviet Union, what do you expect?

[LuverDog12]

Do they even EVER get out to run?

[LuverDog12]

Wow. Those poor foxes need to get out and run. And not be in those cages, those cages are SO cruel and hurt their paws. That place needs to be shut down or they need to make KENNELS for them. That have CONCRETE ground and not WIRE ground. I feel SO bad for those foxes.