I feel like bears is the most obvious answer. In this scenario it would have started thousands of years ago. We’d have dozens/hundreds of breeds with different shapes,sizes and characteristics. What do you think would be the most interesting/cool?
Red Pandas
You could have the most cuddlest creature with you.
Yeah, red panda would make for an adorable pet!
- They’re cute and fluffy
- All they want is to nom nom on their yummy leaves.
- Have you seen that thing they do where they put up their arms to make them look more menacing? That doesn’t really work, and to me, it just looks like the cute little panda want uppsies.
I want a red panda
For me, it’s Racoons, Squirrels, or Crows.
I used to have a Robin friend, who would keep me company while I gardened, so he could grab a juicy worm from the ground I was turning. I’m currently friends with a pair of Sand Hill Cranes who spend every night in front of my house. I talk them nearly every night. They know me well, I stand right next to them, they aren’t afraid of me at all.
While I envy your ability to get close to wildlife, loosing their fear of humans is really very dangerous for Sand Hill Cranes especially.
Sand Hills aren’t very afraid of humans anyway. I’ve just gotten to know these two well, because they sleep in front of my house every night, for the last several years.
The only time we don’t see them, is when they have an egg at wherever they have their day time spot. For the last few days, only George has been showing up, which means Martha is probably on the egg somewhere. Soon, he’ll stay with her, and we won’t see them for a couple of months, until their new babies are old enough to fly to our house, their normal nighttime spot.
The first time they returned with two babies, my mom opened the door, and there was George, most of the way up the driveway, which he had never done before, with Martha and their two babies at the end of the driveway. George wanted to introduce me to his new family!
So I said “George! Welcome back! Are these your new babies? They’re beautiful!” And I walked up to the babies and stood right near them. They got nervous, but Martha and George were fine, so the babies settled down.
They don’t always show back up with babies, which is sad. They laid one in front of our house one year, but it disappeared after a few weeks. We think a coyote took it. George was very sad, and when I approached him after it disappeared, he lifted his head and called loudly. He was sharing his grief with me.
I know who all the animals around my house are, every bird and mammal, and even a couple of gators, but we don’t have relationships. George and I are true friends.
Sand Hills aren’t very afraid of humans anyway.
Yes, that is the vulnerability that you are exploiting and making worse for an entire family of cranes.
I’ve seen this story before. It usually ends in tragedy for the cranes. You’ve likely already seen the results with the loss of their chick. You blame it on a wild animal without proof, but it’s just as likely that the reduction of their fear response to humans (as a direct result of your “kindness”) led to their death.
Like it or not, we have to share the world with them, so being kind to them isn’t being abusive or exploitive. I don’t feed them, chase them, bother them. But they are there in my environment, and I’m in theirs, and we are aware of each other, and get along. That’s all.
Tapeworms. Lil’ butt-buddies.
… Is this bestiality?
It’s could help lose weight, I guess.
You already have demodex mites living on your face.
Whatever the Chihuahua version of a giraffe is.
Opulence, I has it.
Hell yeah
If you could miniaturize them I would totally take a house hippo
Pitbulls already exist
Kinda different, one is a miniaturised hippo, another is mr worldwide.
He told me he was Mr 305
Check out pygmy hippos. They are about the size of a donkey.
The murderous insanity would be more funny if it was in miniature against, like, a beetle.
Maybe a large seal species. Something to ride in the water, but that could still come on land and fall asleep by the fire.
The Liger. It’s pretty much my favorite animal.
Giraffes of course.
Silly question.
ferrets are already domesticated, but i think that having more of/some other domesticated weasel would be neat. imagine pet stoat, or mink, or perhaps wolverine
Wombats, they are super cute and apparently quite smart.
https://youtube.com/shorts/IdgFAIo6NMA
I would also love to see people riding a diprotodon, which is a distant relative
Not domestication per se, but we should teach our ape cousins how to control fire and develop technology. Ascend, my brethren! Come and join your furless kin! Reach out your hands and grasp the tools that are your salvation! Reject the weakness of your flesh!
Bears!
If I had a pet grizzly bear, I’d ride that dude around town all the time.
I’d love a bear as a pet. Not to ride necessarily, but just for hugs.
I mean, they look very cuddly irl. I know they’re dangerous and I would probably be mauled alive… but I’m just saying, there’s a reason why one of the most popular and beloved toys of all time is a cuddly doll made in the likeness of a bear cub
People
we already have consumers.
yes I’m criticizing myself too.
I think that’s just called a sub.
Raccoons, foxes.
Quokka of course.
