Dog X Fox, New species?

[Triggermortis]

The world's first known dog-fox hybrid discovered in Brazil

Scientists from local universities performed extensive genetic tests and determined the unusual animal was half-half - her mother was a pampas fox and her father was a domestic dog.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[finnbear270]

Won't take long before someone gets a litter going.

 

[One on top of two]

Want one

 

[Smellydog]

I always thought this was impossible but what do I know...well come to think of it folk from Wrexham can and have bred with folk from Stoke on Trent so....

 

[Triggermortis]

Is it a biological dog/fox or has it self identified?

 

[Foxyboy43]

I always thought this was impossible but what do I know...well come to think of it folk from Wrexham can and have bred with folk from Stoke on Trent so....

Yu-up - that’s the game all the family can join in boy! T’aint nuthin wrong with it - jes you ask Mama Whittaker - she’s the purdy one in the middle….

 

[Greenmist]

Pampas fox, also known as False fox.
Despite their name, they are not true foxes, but are a unique canid genus more closely related to wolves and jackals than to true foxes; some of them resemble foxes due to convergent evolution.

 

[Rhodesianjess]

I've always thought that foxes and dogs had different numbers of chromosomes, hence impossible to produce a cross breed.
Stand to be corrected @Buchan maybe

 

[User00040]

I want a wolf-lab cross, could be an interesting deer dog...

 

[StephenToast]

I've always thought that foxes and dogs had different numbers of chromosomes, hence impossible to produce a cross breed.
Stand to be corrected @Buchan maybe

You are correct.

It's not a dog x fox at all. It's just the press being the press.

 

[Buchan]

I've always thought that foxes and dogs had different numbers of chromosomes, hence impossible to produce a cross breed.
Stand to be corrected @Buchan maybe

You can get animals with different chromosome numbers breeding - mules (64 horse, 62 donkey) but they are usually sterile. A better source than the mail: First Documented Case Of Hybridization Between A Dog And A Pampas Fox