What shall we domesticate next?

What shall we domesticate next?

  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Parasites.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Black bears selectively bred to be about the size of very large dogs as adults, 100-150 pounds.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Harris hawks, already being overbred in captivity. They are awful when improperly imprinted tho, but I’d love to see a morph coloration. So far there have been none that I know of that are born pibald melaninistic or albino. Very small genetic pool to work with they are only found in the Sonoran desert. They are a great falconry bird, but domesticating them may just turn them into glorified chickens. They are also sensitive to cold weather. After all this time breeding them in the UK and America I’m shocked that none of them have hatched out in a different color. Maybe they have and we don’t know the falconry community is super tight lipped and they love to gatekeep everything they can. Sad really lots of stupid stuff goes on and even though they claim to want to keep the sport alive they make it insufferable for a lot of people that genuinely love hunting and hawking.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s only a matter of time before a captive bred hawk or falcon is born with “frizzled” feathers, or some type of weird genetic recessive trait. Raptors seem to be extremely tolerant of inbreeding with few recessive traits that show up if any at all. Even hybrid raptors seem to be genetically healthy enough, if not mentally unsound for most falconry purposes. The future of falconry seems very uncertain and may come down to the treatment of the birds themselves. The us government has proven to make irrational and poor decisions when it comes to the environment and wildlife in general, following emotion or bribery rather than doing the right thing. The domestication of a species of hawk may throw the whole thing in chaos. Most falconers I know won’t give up the sport even if it was made illegal. They would do it on pain of death, that’s how fanatical they are. A bird that shows any signs of domestication like the foxes would be huge. The way these bird imprint would be impossible for selection though. You’d have to hack them out or leave them in the chamber for a long time without human contact and see if you can judge which ones are more feral or not. A long and expensive process .

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      when you put it like that being a namefag sounds nice
      except the naive part
      i wanna be a bnuuy :v

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cats were never properly domesticated

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They were. Go pick up a wild sand cat if you disagree.

      Cats are so genetically fucked by humans they think their owner is their mother. Only SOME dogs are that far gone. The stronger willed breeds just see you as a packmate, not their parent.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There are mini-lions in africa that live in the jungle and will jump onto humans and play with them.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Apparently cats since they can't seem to figure out how to walk on a leash or do anything else

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cats were never properly domesticated

      same homosexual or just the three guys in a discord at 5am (go to bed (i will too okay i know it's early))

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cats were never properly domesticated

      obsession

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Tigers, we're already almost there. There's more tigers in America then the rest of the wild combined.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    petfags are mentally ill
    why can't you people just appreciate animals where they belong? not everything needs to be made into a retarded mindbroken abomination

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Who says where they belong? Are you god? Did you speak to god? Where is he now?

      They belong where I want them to belong. If you have a problem with it eat lead.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        holy cringe
        this is what happens when humans play god

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          thats a bit better than a wolf cub being eaten alive by hawks because it stayed in the open 5 seconds too long, and humans are able to just not breed deformed dogs, but nature will always be brutal and torture everything it's made of alive because killing stuff before you eat it is a waste of calories.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Irrelevant cope

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Not irrelevant in the slightest. You just don't have an argument besides
              >I think animals are cooler this way than that way

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                you having a deformed wolf in your house has no bearing on wolf cubs suffering in nature dumbass

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I don't have a deformed wolf in my house

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                irrelevant

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                pugs existing is irrelevant to the fact that the average pet has a better life than the average wolf

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Pugs are one manmade horror that is totally optional. We don't have to do that. You could start a religious crusade against that easily.

                All wild animals have shitty lives.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          god literally gave man dominion over animals in genesis. cope

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >b-because my israeli storybook said so!!1!

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            the entire bible is a just so story and everything in it conveniently justifies hebrew presence in canaan, hebrew domination of canaan, and everything hebrews do, while demonizing everything else everyone else in canaan does.

            i'm pretty sure if you asked another religion they'd say domestic animals are just the descendants of animals we got along with and leave it at that. meanwhile the hebes were like "everything we do was commanded by god and is unquestionable. we're taking over your country by the way". that's all they've ever been like, self-justifying invaders.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              yes it's a story a lot of people know about it because it was spread widely
              that's just humans work
              infact that's how many animals work, either that breed their predators out
              if indians spread hinduism to the west when they weren't an utter shithole, i imagine you wouldn't bitch about that
              not sayin i'm not sick of christfags spreadin their shit everywhere on this site recently either but frankly i'm sick of atheists about as much; at least they're not as bad as in the olden days, genuinely managed to be annoying than christians which is impressive cause they had the monopoly for a long while

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          i'm pretty sure god didn't domesticate shit, infact there's a part of the bible where he asks a human to do it
          >inb4 it's just a figure of speech, autist
          i know

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Key to choosing a successful species to domesticate is
    >Eats something we don't want (like grass, bugs, etc.)
    >Willing to breed and grows up quickly (preferably doesn't have mating seasons or other breeding restrictions)
    >Isn't extremely deadly or extremely scared (just makes things much harder)
    >Easy to keep (e.g. marine mammals need a lot of water space)
    >Isn't endangered and easily available (because breeding an endangered species for the sake of domestication would put it at risk of the pet trade)
    >Needs an exploitable social structure, preferably with a hierarchy (like herds, packs, etc.)

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >-Eats something we want (meat)
      >-Difficult to breed, choosy and has mating seasons
      >-Is deadly and/or skittish
      >-Hard to keep
      >-Endangered
      >+Has a social structure

      The REAL criteria are

      >Humans think it's cool, relate to it easily, and like giving it food
      >OR
      >Humans like eating it and don't want it to run away so much

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        i use animar for both thing, stupid westelna.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Dogs are the exception that proves the rule. They were incredibly useful for nearly everything. Herding livestock, guarding homes, transporting goods and people, hunting animals the list goes on, and they have an extremely easy to exploit social system.
        Cats basically domesticated themselves with little input from prehistoric people.
        Isnt it interesting that out of millions of possible options for domestic carnivores, only 2 species were ever domesticated?

        Isnr it interesting that out of millions of herbivores, only about a dozen were domesticated? Cows, chicken, pigs, horses, goats, sheep, alpaca & llama, rabbits, guineapigs, reindeer and probably smth I'm forgetting.
        All of these animals were domesticated for a reason, for some kind of practical use beyond 'gyuh lookz kewl!!!'.
        This is why foxes will never be domesticated. There's no point other than some idiots think it might be cool. It won't be, but it doesn't matter bevause it just isn't gonna happen.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I vote possums (particularly the Virginia opossum). They arent SUPER sociable, but they tolerate each other like cats it seems. They also breed like rats and eat basically whatever (although getting a good diet for one down is a bit tricky, nothing a good dose of $$capitalism$$ wouldn't fix). Only issue is longevity (4-5yrs max in captivity), but that can be selectively bred out (it's already happened to an insular population of Virginia opossums).

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    God

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    RACCOONS
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    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That would be some next level shit. I'm not joking.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        nice

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Intelligence

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I very much agree. They seem really smart.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Raccoons are too smart for normal people. Retarded white women will give them treats when they start showing aggressive behavior because "It makes them stop being mean"

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing. It's not gonna happen. That whole Russian fox thing was a passion project of vanity that barely succeeded in making foxes only slightly more bearable to human company.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      defeatist mentality

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Minipigs

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    frogs

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wypipo

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Personally I'd like it if some meat animals were more domesticated. Emu, Rhea, Ostrich, Giraffe, Peacock, Flamingo, Gator, Catfish, Crawfish, etc.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    i'm betting boars are pretty close or higher

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Squid

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm now reading up on pet squids
      >Make sure the live prey is no more than one and a half times the length of the squid, as larger fish could be able to eat the squid.
      Based squids, you can just feed them fish that are bigger than they are up until a certain point

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do we need more domestic animals? Those we have are already a lot of work.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ok then we just replace cats with them. EZPZ

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      In absolute numbers there are a lot of them but we don't have many species to choose from. I like my cat but after it dies I'm not gonna get a new cat for environmental reasons.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Really only a handful of the ones we already have are giving use domestication problems.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    hi

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Crows

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Seals

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Armadillos

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Your mom

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Badger or wolverines. Cute and playful but will castrate a burglar. Also smaller than dogs so they would be harder to hit when attacking and could have them in bigger numbers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Wolverines are smaller than dogs?? What kind of dogs are you around...

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Obedient genetically engineered chimpanzees for home defense

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Deer.
    Imagine having a deer that you walk like a dog/doesn't shid up the place and that actually listens and maybe can do basic stuff like sit on command. They already really really want to be our pets so I see no issue here. Also, it would solve the vegetarian pet issue for many people.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. I want a deer wife.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Hi /k, how things are going?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          /K/ doesn't wife deer, they rape.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >/k/

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. I want a deer wife.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        that is not how you clear the table..................

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There are active deer farms/ranches working on it. Look up the North American Deer Farmers Association. Granted, they are mostly focused on breeding deer to be better livestock, not pets.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >ip count didn't go up

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Zebras just to make Blacks look bad lmaooo

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Those roof Koeans had style. Not one of them looked like a slob.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Dude in yellow specifically looks quite cool

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      texans already did it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Taking =/= domestication

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          wrong

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Domesticated is selectively breeding for affinity with humans.

            Taming is making a wild animal bend to your will without his bloodline ever being altered to begin with.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Those are the horse based Zebras. She's basically cheating.
        Try that with the donk based ones.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fucking giga chads all over.

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not domesticate, but we should give pongos full citizenship rights
    And even let them pay taxes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      that hasn't worked out well so far with the other apes we've given citizenship to

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Only the rights, not the taxes

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Every citizen has the same duties before the state. Pongos will be no different

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What are they going to pay their taxes in? Banana? Palm oil?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They can work in exchange of money

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They already give back to society with their mere presence

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    naggers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Impossible. We've already tried.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it actually worked pretty good until we let them become feral again

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      no, you will fuck them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Impossible. We've already tried.

      they literally are too smart to be domesticated

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    scaly water doggo

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I wish.

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