Probably red pandas. I'm still a bit surprised they are wild animals, they seem too silly to be like...doing their own thing out there.
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I too want to domesticate a Firefox
Is this a rabbit hole I want to go down?
Pallas's cat
Manul
They are just irl pokemon :)
A bear. They are just adorable and silly and cute until they eat you completely for no reason.
It's nice to be on even terms.
Capybara
x2 for the chillest little dudes
Straight up, chill coconut,
WHAT THE FOX SAY?
Crow/raven!
I am trying to befriend crows right now so I agree with this haha
Howโs it going? What are you doing to try?
This is on my wish list of things to do, but I always forget to start.
So far its only been a week and I'm starting to realize that I haven't chosen a good spot to place food and should find a spot or feeder where I can have water and the food in a nice open part of the yard raised in the air a bit and hopefully in a spot I can aim a camera at. I was playing with dogfood and saw 1 juvenile crow only because I had set up a camera from a old phone, today I got some unshelled unsalted peanuts. I think to get the ball rolling better I need to go walk around and find some crows and lead them towards the house. I grabbed a old broke plant pot made of ceramic and broke the ceramic into small pieces so I can offer some shiny objects to the crows so maybe they either see the food better or take this as a gift and start connecting with my spot more. I don't think I am on their normal route and we have a lot of other miscellaneous birds and dogs and cats and some small predator wild animals around and in a suburb so i don't think it will be very easy to get them to come regularly, I was surprised to even get the one bird once.
Penguin, I want to see a penguin wearing thigh highs and an arch linux shirt :3
those would be the shortest thigh highs ever
Quokka.
I need that type of positivity in my life.
Fruit bats. Just no ebola, please.
Zebras. It's just a bug that we can't, right? It's just a stripey horse!
Zebras are extremely aggressive and violent
I'm assuming the hypothetical domestication process proposed by OP is magical though.
I've read somewhere some have been successfully (more or less) tamed.
Opossums.
the human one
Don't know quite how things would work out, but definitely domesticat the North American beaver because they're one of the coolest animals and you can't convince me otherwise.
Red fox would be great assuming domesticated would render them not smelly xD
One that's big enough to cuddle us. They also should get along fine in the increasingly small environments we are being shoved into. Having a newly domesticated animal that is limited to the ultra rich with giant estates is pointless, right? Bonus points if we can make it an environmental win as well.
Just about everything 'big' fails at being in an apartment though. Big cats, even the smaller ones among them, need more room. Same with bears, moose (cooool, dudes, am I right? Imagine lounging with a moose), elk, whales, dolphins... bah.
My idea, then? Giant birds. Big enough to lay on you when on the couch, but could be let loose to fly around while you're at work. It would take an incredible amount of domestication to get them to go and come back, but if we're talking hypotheticals and theoreticals and blue fantasy, I think giant birds would be the way to go. Take your pick of them. The steller's sea eagle and especially the phillipine eagle speak to me, but I wouldn't turn my nose up at a swan, a goshawk, or a red kite. Feed them well at home, pretend that during the domestication process we made the nesting area easy to clean, and imagine being able to set it loose on stupid fascist leaders.
Snow leopard
I'm gonna have to go with a miniature elephant, maybe the size of a Labrador.
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Having a pet sloth would be pretty cool
It will be a long process.
Otters
Gorillas and monkeys. Just to watch them evolve. I think it would be nice to see them with glasses.
Is this what you want?
Monke
I was thinking more like the tv show The Umbrella Academy but this is definitely worth a laugh! I don't know how to post a photo or I'd send you one back for reference. None the less if I see a monkey push up their glasses every so often as they slide down. I'd have to laugh.
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Cat
Tiger!
Zebra or giraffe. Not to ride, just to go on walks with.
I think a wombat would be cool to have around the place, assuming domestication allowed for some level of trainability.
One of my old uni lecturers was very keen on the idea of domesticating the spotted quoll. He reckoned they would make a great pet for those who would otherwise get a cat (a convincing argument actually).
Foxes. They're like a cross between cats and dogs, with their cute fluffy tails.
Russians inadvertantly did that, when trying to rear blue foxes for fur. Selecting for tameness altered the coat.
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Sparrows.
Sparrows are already semi domesticated due to living near human settlements basically since we started farming.
Well, they're not domesticated enough to let me pet them unless I catch a chick which fell off a nest.
Domesticated microraptor. It would be cool as hell, and also imply that we've somehow resurrected a dead species.
Get a chicken. They still know they're dinossaurs.
Wasps; I'm going to be a supervillain now.
Edit: Scratch that. Termites have better crime potential, if that's the idea I'm going with.
Even if not, a large quadruped is the wrong answer when we already have dogs, horses and elephants. Something flying, digging, tiny or aquatic is where we should all be thinking.
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