The Fuegian dog, or Yahgan dog, or Patagonian dog is an extinct type of canine. The Fuegian dog was bred and domesticated from the South American culpeo, also known as the culpeo fox.
Two Fuegian dogs: Katekita (female) and Tapan (male)
Skull of a Fuegian dog, photographed c. 1910s, and published in the journal Arkiv för Zoologi
Selkʼnam hunting together with Fuegian dogs
Colorized sketch of Tapan, by Philippe Alexandre Jules Künckel d'Herculais (1884)
The domesticated silver fox is a form of the silver fox, a melanistic form of the wild red fox, that has been to some extent domesticated under laboratory conditions. Domesticated silver foxes are the
Fuegian dog
…the dogs were hunted by European settlers due to its use in hunting and home making among the Selkʼnam. This was the main cause of their extinction. Domesticated silver fox Falkland Islands wolf…
Lyudmila Trut with a domesticated silver fox, 1974
Lyudmila Trut with a domesticated silver fox
Domesticated male fox in a Russian household