2005 January 12, Steve Wall, Flickr[1], archived from the original on 17 October 2025:
Artic [sic] Fox are nicknamed scruffy because of the way they look when they shed in the spring
Location: Shemya Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
2007 August 2, Crystal M. Trulove, crystaltrulove.com[2], archived from the original on 26 September 2020:
memories…. the Scruffies (Arctic Foxes who would eat out of your hand), the ravens doing carnival rides on the updrafts raging up the cliffs,[…]
Location: Shemya Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
2008 July 29, Art Chase, Flickr[3], archived from the original on 17 October 2025:
"Here scruffy". This arctic fox came around the trail and saw me standing there taking pictures. Hesitated and then proceded to walk right up to me with dinner, didn't offer me any, and kept on going.....cheese wiz, and I was so nice to him! At least he could have stopped and got a rub on the noggin....
Location: St George Island, Pribilof Islands, Alaska
2010 May 3, Dirk HR Spennemann, Flickr[4], archived from the original on 12 November 2020:
Eareckson Air Station, Shemya Island, Aleutians, Alaska, USA Arctic Foxes (locally called 'scruffies') were introduced by Russian fur traders as early as 1750 to neighbouring Attu and in 1775 to Shemya.
2016 March 18, m_o_hannan, Boing Boing BBS[5], archived from the original on 1 November 2016:
Having lived among Russian Blue Foxes in the Aleutians and listened to their incessant mating yelps, this video gave me flashbacks of sleepless nights of ‘scruffies’ barking outside my window. The horror, the horror.
2024 August 17, pfft_innegan, Instagram[6], archived from the original on 17 October 2025:
Aleutian Island Arctic Foxes (affectionately called "Scruffies") were originally brought over from Russia in the late 1800s, and "farmed" for their fur.
