Foxes. They're like a cross between cats and dogs, with their cute fluffy tails.
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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.
Ocelot
BABOU!!
Lana! He remembers me!
How do you titilate an ocelot?
I'd take a unicorn or dragon.
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.
Sparrows.
Sparrows are already semi domesticated due to living near human settlements basically since we started farming.
Well, they're not domesticated enough to let me pet them unless I catch a chick which fell off a nest.
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.
I mean, obviously a lion.
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.
Is this a rabbit hole I want to go down?
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Pallas's catA bear. They are just adorable and silly and cute until they eat you completely for no reason.
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Tall horse ๐ฆ
I always thought of them as necky camels more than horses
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WHAT THE FOX SAY?
Penguin, I want to see a penguin wearing thigh highs and an arch linux shirt :3
those would be the shortest thigh highs ever
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.
I've read somewhere some have been successfully (more or less) tamed.
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).
I just want to be ready, in case everyone else chooses violence.
If, all of a sudden, there were a handful of people that had a magical connection with an otherwise dangerous animal; I imagine, either those people would fight each other or team up against someone with a robot army. Either way, a tiger would have a lot of weak points, even with armor.
Fair point.
For a truly scary animal to have on your side, what do you think of wasps? Airborn, vicious and capable of team work.
You would need at least an entire hive, the rules state only one animal. But if you got a Queen, you probably could control an entire hive๐ค you've given me something to think about for sure
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