Why Do People Want Wild Animals For Pets?

[Road Runner]

I'm making this thread because it was of MisterBeale's opinion that cats cannot be owned. Which I'm not scolding him for btw as it's his solely his opinion,.. but my question is that yeah even though cats aren't as domesticated as dogs are, why do people want lions and tigers for pets when they could literally kill them and rip them apart when so many cats and kittens are homeless and looking for homes?




You ask a five year old if they want a tiger for a pet and nine times out of ten they'll probably say no that they want a cat or a kitten instead. It's just common sense people!! Wild animals belong in the wild or if they can't be in the wild, to have enough room for them to roam around and not in a cage. If that lion or tiger kills somebody just by acting how a wild animal should that beautiful animal will have to be putdown. People really need to be educated about this.

 

[occupied]

Adrenaline junkie + attention whore.

 

[martybegan]

Because having a tame bear that acts like a dog would be fucking awesome.

 

[Road Runner]

Because having a tame bear that acts like a dog would be fucking awesome.

No wild animal is truly tame. That bear could attack a person at any given moment.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

Because having a tame bear that acts like a dog would be fucking awesome.

Until it has a bad mood and ripping your arms out seems like good therapy.

 

[JoeMoma]

Because having a tame bear that acts like a dog would be fucking awesome.

 

[BasicHumanUnit]

No wild animal is truly tame. That bear could attack a person at any given moment.

Many accounts of people raising and growing up with large wild animals and then being killed or maimed by them.

Rule of thumb.......

If you can't reason with it and it's big enough to rip you into pieces, Trying to coddle it will likely earn you your own personal Darwin award.
That said.....animals are smarter than many people and they aren't all violent psychos...unlike most in NewYork, LosAngeles, Baltimore, Chicago etc

 

[martybegan]

No wild animal is truly tame. That bear could attack a person at any given moment.

Agreed. it would take decades or centuries of dedicated breeding to get a truly tame bear.

 

[Road Runner]

Looks interesting, but that's a fictional TV show. Ever hear of this one?

 

[martybegan]

Until it has a bad mood and ripping your arms out seems like good therapy.

Which is why I don't have one. Truly taming bears would take a few centuries of dedicated breeding.

 

[occupied]

No wild animal is truly tame. That bear could attack a person at any given moment.

Bears can be tamed but the cruelty involved makes anyone who has one a monster.

 

[Moonglow]

No wild animal is truly tame. That bear could attack a person at any given moment.

So can domesticated dogs and cats, horses, pigs, cattle, goats sheep, and worms grown for fish bait.

 

[Road Runner]

Also, this recently made the news.

Man Could Wind Up Facing Charges For Tiger Shooting

Even though this happened earlier in the week, I'm just hearing about this now. Newsflash people! Tigers are NOT pets and they will never be domesticated cute little housecats! He should definitely be prosecuted. Since because of his stupidity a beautiful and (endangered nonetheless) animal had...

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[Death-Ninja]

Because having a tame bear that acts like a dog would be fucking awesome.

Except they don't, they behave like bears, I m far more comfortable working with wild bears in the wild, than I ever would be with a largely domesticated animal in confinement, all bears kept in private hands must be confined! As for the ops supposition about common house cats, and their relationship to humans, those animals have been intimately associated with humans and human settlements from the absolute very beginning of civilization.

Fully comfortable in close proximity with humans from the very first, specifically due to the human practice of agriculture and the draw it was/is upon cats natural prey species, it was assured from the beginning man and cat would become acclimated one to the other. Importantly, where man has leaned that cats are never entirely tame, we must never forget that no wild animal ever is either, especially large felines, bears, wolves, foxes, coyotes, deer, moose, ect ect ect....

 

[martybegan]

So can domesticated dogs and cats, horses, pigs, cattle, goats sheep, and worms grown for fish bait.

We got 99% of that out of most dogs.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

I'm making this thread because it was of MisterBeale's opinion that cats cannot be owned. Which I'm not scolding him for btw as it's his solely his opinion,.. but my question is that yeah even though cats aren't as domesticated as dogs are, why do people want lions and tigers for pets when they could literally kill them and rip them apart when so many cats and kittens are homeless and looking for homes?




You ask a five year old if they want a tiger for a pet and nine times out of ten they'll probably say no that they want a cat or a kitten instead. It's just common sense people!! Wild animals belong in the wild or if they can't be in the wild, to have enough room for them to roam around and not in a cage. If that lion or tiger kills somebody just by acting how a wild animal should that beautiful animal will have to be putdown. People really need to be educated about this.

Why do Democrats love to have gerbils put up their ass?

 

[occupied]

Except they don't, they behave like bears, I m far more comfortable working with wild bears in the wild, than I ever would be with a largely domesticated animal in confinement, all bears kept in private hands must be confined! As for the ops supposition about common house cats, and their relationship to humans, those animals have been intimately associated with humans and human settlements from the absolute very beginning of civilization.

Fully comfortable in close proximity with humans from the very first, specifically due to the human practice of agriculture and the draw it was/is upon cats natural prey species, it was assured from the beginning man and cat would become acclimated one to the other. Importantly, where man has leaned that cats are never entirely tame, we must never forget that no wild animal ever is either, especially large felines, bears, wolves, foxes, coyotes, deer, moose, ect ect ect....

Bears are very common around here, so are rednecks. I'd feel more at ease standing in the yard with a bear than the monster hog dogs these people breed around here.

 

[Moonglow]

We got 99% of that out of most dogs.

Is that why they ban pit bulls?

 

[Road Runner]

Why do Democrats love to have gerbils put up their ass?

As much as I have to agree with that,.. this isn't a political discussion.

 

[1srelluc]

I always had fair luck in "taming" woodland animals if I could catch one young enough. Coons, crows, squirrels, a red fox, possums, were fine. I even had three Screech Owls at one time that stayed out in my dad's shed.

I always wanted to catch a young bobcat but never did.

The exception was a young ground hog I found that nearly drowned when the river had a flash flood.
That damn thing was as mean eight months later as it was when it got it bearings after I found it. I finally just let it loose out in the yard and it ran out into the woods never to be seen again.....Blah, good riddance.