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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Pallas's catA bear. They are just adorable and silly and cute until they eat you completely for no reason.
A bear walks into a bar and says "I'll have a ............................. beer." The bartender asks: "Why the big pause?" The bear responds: "I don't know, I was born with them."
(Pic in OP relevant. Even bear cubs have big paws.)
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Foxes. They're like a cross between cats and dogs, with their cute fluffy tails.
Congrats, your wish was granted a few years ago.
You should listen to and smell a fox before embarking on that kind of project.
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.
Russians inadvertantly did that, when trying to rear blue foxes for fur. Selecting for tameness altered the coat.
Penguin, I want to see a penguin wearing thigh highs and an arch linux shirt :3
those would be the shortest thigh highs ever
Crow/raven!
Quokka.
I need that type of positivity in my life.
Zebras. It's just a bug that we can't, right? It's just a stripey horse!
Zebras are extremely aggressive and violent
I'm assuming the hypothetical domestication process proposed by OP is magical though.
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I'd take a unicorn or dragon.
WHAT THE FOX SAY?
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
So, essentially, you chose violence, be it through He-Man (Battle Cat) or the Teenage Mutant Turtles (Rocksteady).
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Fennec fox or fruit bat. Perhaps raccoon, or maybe otter. Seals are neat too if thereβs water. Thereβs a lot honestly
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Tigers are just big cats.
the human one
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.
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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Fruit bats. Just no ebola, please.
Red Panda. I want to steal one from the zoo every time I go.
I'm gonna have to go with a miniature elephant, maybe the size of a Labrador.
Pygmy elephant.
Domesticated microraptor. It would be cool as hell, and also imply that we've somehow resurrected a dead species.
Get a chicken. They still know they're dinossaurs.
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