uh, none of that in any way negates the fact that there is a MASSIVE difference between a domesticated pet and a wild animal, but ok
Good. It wasn't intended to. The point was that those two cougars in the video are essentially domesticated pets.
No, they are NOT domesticated AT ALL. They're wild animals that were brought up as domesticated pets. Again, MASSIVE fucking difference. Domesticated animals have had hundreds, in some cases thousands of years of selective breeding to enhance the best traits and subdue the less desirable ones.
These animals have undergone no such selective breeding. They could turn on their owner for the most innocuous things.
Don't take my word for it, just watch an episode or two of Tiger King for chrissakes. You cannot consider an animal like this domesticated because they've undergone no selective breeding or extremely limited selective breeding. At best they might be two or three generations removed from actual wild animals. In other words, they're still wild animals. Completely unpredictable and very, very dangerous.
Correct. Those animals are not domesticated. They have been conditioned. Completely different. You can condition a wild animal. You can beat the shit out of a bear until it will pedal a bicycle around in a circus for decades. But it is still a wild animal. Always capable of doing what it is genetically designed to do.
It would be like if you had a wife with Borderline Personality Disorder. You may learn to believe she is quite stable all of the time, but at any moment you might come home and find her banging your friends. That butterfly tattoo will always make her unpredictable. (It's a joke guys. just a joke....settle down.
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