Breeding

[Trevor Nutbeem]

Can foxes breed with dogs ?

[Scott Kellogg]

Trevor Nutbeem (tre...@nutbeem.prestel.co.uk) wrote:
: Can foxes breed with dogs ?

Short question: Short Answer.

No.

They're too far apart on the evolutionary scale. Dogs can successflly
mate with wolves and coyotes, but foxes are a different genus.

Scott Kellogg

[Linda Duggan]

No foxes are a different genus and species to dogs.Dogs are generally
Canis,red foxes are Vulpes etc
Trevor Nutbeem wrote in message <79lbh9$al4$1...@phys-ma.sol.co.uk>...

[ta...@my-dejanews.com]

In article <kelloggsF...@netcom.com>,

I also have tried to find out whether a fox has ever been successfully
hybridized with a nonfox canid. Red foxes (_Vulpes vulpes_), gray wolves
(_Canis lupus lycaon_) domestic dogs (_Canis lupus familiaris_), dingos
(_Canis lupus dingo_), jackals, dholes, etc., are all members of the
taxonomic family Canidae. If fox-nonfox hybridization has ever been
accomplished I assume that it was done using artificial insemination. A
fellow interested in wolves just recently emailed me and told me that his
friend had had a fox-dog hybrid. I would like to know if this is really so or
just a myth.

I once read a book dealing with the subject of animal hybridization. In this
(older) book the author had written that chickens and turkeys had actually
been hybridized using artificial insemination. Chicken-turkey hybrids were
produced but they were not very viable specimens, in fact they were quite
sickly birds. Apparently they lived for only a few months before eventually
dying of some disease. Interestingly chickens and turkeys belong to separate
taxonomic families and yet they have been artificially hybridized.

I do not know, but I would like to know, if foxes can or cannot be hybridized
with nonfox canids. They may indeed be too far apart on the creationary scale
for hybridization to be even possible. If this is true their possible or
potential hybridization may be forever precluded, even by means of artificial
insemination.

Hans-Friedrich Tamke
CREATIONARY WORLD
<http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/lab/5985>

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[Florian]

ta...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> > : Can foxes breed with dogs ?
> >

> > No.
> >
> > They're too far apart on the evolutionary scale. Dogs can successflly
> > mate with wolves and coyotes, but foxes are a different genus.
> >
> > Scott Kellogg
> >
>
> I also have tried to find out whether a fox has ever been successfully
> hybridized with a nonfox canid.

No. A fox can rarely be mixed even with a different species of fox.

The only case I heard of was crossing an Arctic fox with a Red by
artificial insemination. The process was difficult and the offspring
were sterile.

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Florian aka E. Raschka (delurking finally)

[Gary]

>No. A fox can rarely be mixed even with a different species of fox.
>
>The only case I heard of was crossing an Arctic fox with a Red by
>artificial insemination. The process was difficult and the offspring
>were sterile.

yes on the sterile
no on being difficult.

Also goes both ways red to artic and artic to red.