Eli5: Why can’t you make a pet out of a wolf, a bear or a lion?
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Domestication takes a long time over several generations. Iirc there have been attempts to domesticate foxes, but that’s a process that requires selective breeding to get the kind of animal you want.
Sure you could make a pet out of a bear in the sense that you take care of it and benefit from it some how, but is still a bear. I had some neighbors who wanted to rehab raccoons, and bless their bleeding hearts they loved those animals, but they were still wild creatures that tore up their house and ended up causing serious issues with the neighbors. They treated their raccoons like pets, but they weren’t really… Pets.
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