I feel like an off-shoot of bears should've been a 3rd pet for people after cats and dogs. Seems like a missed opportunity.
I feel like an off-shoot of bears should've been a 3rd pet for people after cats and dogs.
I feel like an off-shoot of bears should've been a 3rd pet for people after cats and dogs. Seems like a missed opportunity.
Sure they might be capable of being good pets, But inevitably they will be owned by absolute morons who aren't even capable of correctly raising a dog.
>dog that can climb
enjoy your escape artist
they're also psychotically protective of their young so starting the domestication process would be difficult
Aren't raccoons vaguely related to bears?
bears are solitary animals so they'd make shitty pets like cats.
Don't give the russians ideas
Did you know dogs are literally an off shoot of bears?
Or rather, bears are an off shoot of dogs
Or rather, both shares a common ancestor
Raccoons are ~15 years away from domestication. People in the USA and some in Germany are selectively breeding them.
Skunks are domesticated right now and they make for much better and more polite pets. Raccoons are always up to something
seals are objectively the most domesticable animal around but no one's ever bothered to do it because there's bad utility
>seals are objectively the most domesticable animal around
how so?
I'm not that anon but I'd assume it's something like:
>very social creatures
>vaguely intelligent (or at least not dumb as shit)
>highly reward motivated
>breed relatively fast so domestication would be a ~1-200 year project rather than a thousand years like with elephants or something
I dunno if I'd say they're the MOST domesticable animal out there but there's a good amount going for them.
The closest thing to this is russians in some areas who for some reason ocassionaly feed the bears, even the polar ones.
Foxes.
Too clever to ever be domesticated
D:
Bears claws are too big.
Tell that to the russians
there are some russian foxes in the process of domestication. they're comfortable around people and have started showing signs of domestication like different colorations, but they're not at the same level as cats or dogs yet
cute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuegian_dog?useskin=vector
Foxes ARE domesticated and it turns out it was actually really fricking easy just the people doing it were complete fricking morons about it for centuries
DID YOU KNOW that the people responsible for trying to "domesticate" foxes were doing so by keeping them locked in crates their entire lives and forcefully impregnating them?
Have you ever heard about the monkeys born in cages being eaten alive by their own parents so they don't suffer the same caged fate?
Yeah neither had they
So somebody finally suggested to them to let them run free in a fenced off field and who could have fricking guessed it, they had sex and had babies and after a few generations of living in a fenced off area they became domesticated
They have colors unlike the wild variety and even have floppy ears
You've probably also never heard of fennec foxes
https://youtube.com/shorts/54_3qJRD9fU?feature=share
They're basically dogs
Done. Also bears are more like dogs than cats.
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