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Anonymous
>>360016 I never said I thought keeping wild animals was wrong, I said it was stupid. It IS stupid, in the same way that skydiving without a parachute is stupid. It will lead to your grisly death. People who get wild predators as pets do so only for shock value and because they are small and cute as babies, and they almost never have the slightest clue what they are doing and freak out when they see how quickly they become massive and dangerous and expensive to feed. THAT's why I rage; they are dumb and ignorant.
Trainers on the other hand do not attempt to domesticate these wild animals or make them "pet material" because they have enough knowledge on the subject to know it is impossible to accomplish within the next dozen human generations, and they know how to best handle and care for the animal and have the resources to do so. Domestication takes hundreds/thousands of years of dedicated selective breeding and is completely different from training. They will die, or get mauled, but not as soon as the attention-whores.
And dude, you cannot compare modern dogs to wolves. Everything about them from their temperament and biology to their intelligence and sociology is very different. It has absolutely nothing to do with what I was talking about anyway. "Cavemen" didn't just randomly take any ol' wolf and decide they wanted it as a pet because it was cute. There were canids who gradually became habituated to humans and made themselves useful so they went a step further, taking the most behaviorally agreeable/helpful animals and bred them, keeping the offspring with the traits they preferred and then bred those offspring, and so on. Totally different.
tl;dr = you're dumb
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