So… Russia attempted (and seemingly succeeded) in domesticating wild foxes via selective breeding.
Via Wikipedia:
The result of over 50 years of experiments in the Soviet Union and Russia, the breeding project was set up in 1959[1] by Soviet scientist Dmitri Belyaev. It continues today at The Institute of Cytology and Genetics at Novosibirsk, under the supervision of Lyudmila Trut.
So why exactly did Russia select this experiment? Because why the hell not!
Photo: Mike Hazzledine, Flickr
