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That's a bizarre standard to judge an animal by. Do you think bears and moose, or wolves not habituated to humans, are less "wonderful" because you can't cuddle with them?


I think so. If you can’t cuddle with an animal then they’re significantly less wonderful. Majestic, perhaps, but there’s nothing like fluffy cuddles.

Bears are sometimes pretty cool. There’s a lady on tiktok that scratches one behind the ears with a rake whenever it shows up. Which is apparently a frequent thing for her. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRv5qd55/

Somehow she trained it to sit… https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRv5yDQk/

But I don’t think bears are domesticatable through selective breeding, whereas there’s some evidence that wolves are.


Not all animals are able to be domesticated, right? Wolves are, so something must separate them from other un-domesticatable animals.




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