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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wasps; I'm going to be a supervillain now.

Edit: Scratch that. Termites have better crime potential, if that's the idea I'm going with.

Even if not, a large quadruped is the wrong answer when we already have dogs, horses and elephants. Something flying, digging, tiny or aquatic is where we should all be thinking.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, obviously a lion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Foxes. They're like a cross between cats and dogs, with their cute fluffy tails.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Congrats, your wish was granted a few years ago.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Russians inadvertantly did that, when trying to rear blue foxes for fur. Selecting for tameness altered the coat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You should listen to and smell a fox before embarking on that kind of project.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh I listen to them every night, believe me. I don't mind it anymore. It is true though I've never been close enough to smell one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Domesticated microraptor. It would be cool as hell, and also imply that we've somehow resurrected a dead species.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Get a chicken. They still know they're dinossaurs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'd take a unicorn or dragon.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Lana! He remembers me!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

How do you titilate an ocelot?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sparrows are already semi domesticated due to living near human settlements basically since we started farming.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, they're not domesticated enough to let me pet them unless I catch a chick which fell off a nest.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm gonna have to go with a miniature elephant, maybe the size of a Labrador.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Pygmy elephant.

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