Hello and welcome to the side guys, the show where we talk about the crazy, weird and wonderful stories from the science world.

I'm Corey, and as always, I'm joined by my co-host, Jamp, and Luke Cutforth.

Hello. Hello.

Thank you. And Luke Cutforth. Hello. Hello. This week we'll be talking about fixing foxes and producing puppies. Fixing foxes and reducing.

Reducing.

Ah, nice. Okay, nice happy. Nobody would want to reduce puppies. No. No. Well, unless you're reducing puppies to make more dogs, because they grow into dogs. Oh. Yeah. Dogs are nicer. Well, you know, they've both got their merits. Before we started this episode, I said to look off off my... You did. We are recording this about half an hour before the exit poll for the UK general

election comes out. And I am feeling so anxious. And Corrie said to me, don't worry, Luke,

there's nothing in this episode that will make you sad. He will find something. We will see. Look, if you find something, you've made yourself sad. You can't put that on me. But I'm in my anxious brain, Corey. That's not fair. Quite often it's a positive story, but you always find something negative about it. I'm just so miserable. I think that kind of explains your mental state, doesn't

it? Anyway, dogs are man's best friend. Cats are man's rude flatmates and foxes are these

kind of weird, wild cat dog creatures. I love foxes so much. Yeah, I love them too. But, uh, you

know, we bred dogs from wolves, but what would happen if you tried to make a dog out of a fox?

It would be a dog. As in you tried to breed a dog from fox. You tried to domesticate fox.

Domesticated fox. Um, really cute. That's what it would be. It would be cute, wouldn't

any little faces. I don't know what would happen. I'm gonna tell you what would happen. That's what

today's story's about. Yay!

Have you guys seen those videos on YouTube of the man who has a fox in his back garden?

Probably.

He just comes up to him and goes, hey, it's so lovely.

No.

You have...

How dare you?

I've seen videos of cute foxes and people going, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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