Thread: Domesticating a wild animal

Im not an animal person so i dont have too much knowledge about this shit but I came across some stuff on youtube that got me choked up.









The last video is really intrguing. The lion hugs the women who saved him..


So if you raised the animal from birth, they will never attack you?

I'm against it but sadly things like the examples you posted along with zoo's may be the only place left in the future to see these animals and may provide a way for re-introduction. Lots of wolf hybrids up here and even some that have tried to raise wolves. It never works out well for the animals. A wolf becomes a wolf by design at about six months. Unlike a dog they stop having eye contact with you. There have only been 8 documented cases of wild wolves predating on humans since documents have been taken which is about 300 years. The same cannot be said about hybrid pets or wolf pets.

Interestingly enough I just finished watching a documentary recently on a new species here in Canada that was first seen on the east coast but has moved on west as far as Alberta and British Columbia. I think I may have seen one here a couple of weeks ago. Its called a "coywolf" Half coyote/half wolf. They seem to be a little retarded and are killing horses and even donkeys out west which are fearless and used to protect herds. They seem bold and may be responsible for a couple of fatalities. Anyway I digress. Interesting topic.

Originally Posted by FinitoElDinamita

So if you raised the animal from birth, they will never attack you?

There are dozens of cases of the "loving" friendly wild animal "unexpectedly" turning on it's owner.

Tame Hollywood bear that ripped its trainer/owners throat out. Loving Gorilla that ripped owners face off. Siegfried and Roy getting attacked by a lion/tiger during the performance. Timothy Treadwell (Grizzly Man). Plus a million circus animal incidents.

Just because there's some limited evidence the Animal will bond with the human it doesn't mean that it will stay that way. In the first video (Christian the lion) they went to see it whilst it was still being cared for by humans. They never went back to see if it was still that friendly after it had been let loose to hunt and breed on it's own.

In the 2nd Vid - The Gorilla seemed as comfortable around the other humans as the dude it apparently could recognise.

3rd Vid - Timothy Treadwell?

4th Vid - There's no evidence he recognised the woman. As he's in a South American zoo he probably has no teeth or claws left either.

Wild animals are meant to live in the wild. Not with dopey humans.

There is a difference in a tame and domesticated animal. Obviously you can tame an animal of just about any kind under the right circumstances but it takes generations of taming and correct breeding to get a domesticated animal and even then you still have the occasional pet that attacks. There was a really good story a few years back about pet foxes and the selective breeding it took to produce them as good pets. I imagine most dog breeds went through generations of the one that bit its master ended up in a pot thus removing that aggressive gene.

Domesticated animals are bred that way over generations. All domestic dogs relate back to the wolf. Odds are that Beta Males who were kicked out of packs gathered around human settlements and the humans got the easier to domesticate dogs right off the bat (well easier than an Alpha male wolf) but through years and years of breeding and selecting which traits were good, which traits were bad etc we have the nice doggies we have today. It took lots of time to do that.

Wild animals are WILD...it might seem a bit repetitive but it's true. These animals like the lions and the ape may have had to be re-trained to be "wild" but they were never "domesticated".

For example Koko, the ever so famous sign language talking gorilla....seemingly docile and friendly would every so often rip sinks out of the walls. Which is disconcerting...she did blame that on one of her kittens but just imagine that, if Koko got a little irritated at someone she could quite easily dismember them with only her hands.


In an interesting reversal of this "domesticated pigs" the pink Babe lookalikes can revert to being feral in a matter of hours. And VC can, I am certain, explain how destructive those bastards are.....deadly sob's too!

Even when we have domesticated and selectively bred animals, given the opportunity they
will return to there wild state, pigs dogs cats etc.

Yellow eyes on animals are like traffic signals to me, to be a touch more on guard and leave a safer distance. Same with jet black.

I think a day of two after this thread started a snake ate two kids in Eastern Canada. Two brothers over for a sleep over who's friend live above the pet store his father owned.

Snake that killed two kids had escaped its enclosure before | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

Oh and you cant domesticate wild animals. Performing tricks is not domestication. Shit you cant even domesticate a house cat and they are classed as such.

Originally Posted by IamInuit

I think a day of two after this thread started a snake ate two kids in Eastern Canada. Two brothers over for a sleep over who's friend live above the pet store his father owned.

Snake that killed two kids had escaped its enclosure before | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

Some people are saying the snake was only doing what snakes naturally do so let it live,I can see their point.
I would naturally beat it to death with a bat if they were my kids cause thats whats I do.
It would have more of a shot at defense than they got,the shit of thing cant even eat them,so it was a thrill kill on sleeping victims.
Fuck the snake.