>>37726264Here's the thing. You said a "fox is a dog."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies dogs, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls foxes dogs. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "dog family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Canidae, which includes things from coyotes to dingoes to wolves.
So your reasoning for calling a fox a dog is because random people "call the small ones dogs?" Let's get dholes and tanuki in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A fox is a fox and a member of the dog family. But that's not what you said. You said a fox is a dog, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call jackals, dingoes, and other carnivores dogs, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
