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
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.
Penguin, I want to see a penguin wearing thigh highs and an arch linux shirt :3
Zebras. It's just a bug that we can't, right? It's just a stripey horse!
I'm gonna have to go with a miniature elephant, maybe the size of a Labrador.
Quokka.
I need that type of positivity in my life.
Manul
They are just irl pokemon :)
This is the only correct answer.
Cat
Cats domesticated humans. Mine watches me clean her litter box. It's clearly a power play.
Exactly, mine sees me as a bed apparently.
Tigers are just big cats.
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.
Fennec fox or fruit bat. Perhaps raccoon, or maybe otter. Seals are neat too if thereβs water. Thereβs a lot honestly
Fennec fox
just LOOK AT THESE THINGS
Assuming their domesticated enough to listen to my commands and ignore their pray drive, on like a magical level, Tiger. Hands down. I would go to the Renaissance Fair with them and commission a blacksmith to forge armor for them. I would ride it into battle whenever necessary.
Edit: I was also assuming no one else has a magically domestic animal. If everyone in this thread also has one, I'll choose Rhinoceros
With those conditions I would pick a bear/panda or platypus respectively.
Crow/raven!
I am trying to befriend crows right now so I agree with this haha
Tall horse π¦
Stupid long horse, but yeah that would be a sick
Get me a miniature giraffe and a miniature elephant and I'm good.
Red fox would be great assuming domesticated would render them not smelly xD
WHAT THE FOX SAY?
Fruit bats. Just no ebola, please.
Tiger!
Gorillas and monkeys. Just to watch them evolve. I think it would be nice to see them with glasses.
Mountain Lion, for home defense. Hard to act tough when your buddy just got dragged up to the balcony by their broken neck and stairs weren't involved in getting him there.
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Otters
the human one
Red Panda. I want to steal one from the zoo every time I go.
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.
Opossums.
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