My takeaway from this thread is that people who have spent their lives within the confines of the city do not understand the penchant for wild humans to collect the creatures they stumble across out in the wild.
Some would do well to actually read the data collected on that fox farm in Russia, to understand how few generations it took to create a semi domestic fox simply by selecting for less aggressive pups. Not only did the animals behavior change within the adult lifetime of one human, the animals' physical characteristics changed also. No selection was made for physical characteristics, only for behavioral.
I guess their will be no proof until someone puts several hundred grey wolfs into captivity and selects for behavioral characteristics over twenty or thirty generations. One could make a lot of lovely coats from the culls, and sell the carcasses in the meat markets of Korea.
