Hunter-gatherers in what is now Patagonia, Argentina, kept foxes as pets before the arrival of European dogs about 500 years ago, a new study suggests. In some cases, the ancient people were so closely bonded with their pet foxes that they were even buried with them.
And while it's previously been proposed that modern dogs in the region are a mixture of foxes and dogs, that probably isn't the case — instead, it seems the foxes died out completely.
