Maks Rosebuster 💙💛🇵🇱🏳️🌈How do I explain it to you, guys? You should absolutely never try to get wild animals as pets. There's plenty of domesticated ones you can choose from. As much as you love the look of something more exotic like a caracal, they have hunting instincts and belong in the wild. Stop.
Odoben@rosebuster I should read up on those domesticated red foxes I heard about a few years ago. Not because I'd want to have one but to see how legitimate it is.
@odoben In their unmodified wild form, they are absolutely unsuitable as pets. Wild instincts don't go away just like that. Those are not just developed environmentally, but they're in the DNA. To remove those instincts from a wild animal, you need several generations of controlled breeding, to alter their DNA. At which point you may discover also physical changes as a part of their adaptation to a different lifestyle and you'll have a different animal. And in any case there are serious ethical concerns in keeping wild animals captive for generations to breed them selectively, rejecting unwanted offspring.
@rosebuster And it would also take a lot of time. I don't think something like this couldn't be done in decades or even centuries, which is why I'm skeptical of things like this
@odoben There are many people who want to justify doing things like this, because they want to have their favourite animal as a pet. But if you care for animals more than for your own enjoyment, you will do the right thing and let them live in the wild. Making animals behave against their own nature is just wrong. If you raise them from the beginning, they won't know any other life, so they will have to accept the one you give them. On the outside they may seem happy with it, but it's always going to feel off to them, because it's not what they are. I know people often mean well, but they really don't understand.