aww

It must be unbearable for them.

We also taunt them with solidified gelatine sweets.

At least we put them on pretty 3D animated carbonated beverage advertisements for Christmastime for a while, that must've felt really nice until you consider that humans are exploiting your cute and cuddly experience to increase shareholder revenue due to sales of an unnecessarily sugared beverage made with tropical fruit seeds

The best time to do this was 1000 years ago. The second best time is now!

On a less jokey note, pretty much every living mammal has been subjected to domestication attempts at some point in history. Bears, elephants, tigers, hippopotami, moose... More often than not, there's some kind of inherent physiological reason why it doesn't work.

Some animals don't breed well in captivity (pandas, famously, but cheetahs are another classic case). Some can't handle captivity at all - the few efforts at keeping Great Whites in captivity ended with the animals bludgeoning themselves to death on the walls of their enclosures. Others are consistently too aggressive to effectively tame (zebras, coyotes, chimps, elephants, and pythons are notable for all the historic instances domestication failed for these reasons). And some simply aren't pleasant household companions - skunks, raccoons, and foxes are all notable for their powerful odors and their propensity to destroy the interiors of homes.

There's some speculation as to whether cats ever were actually domesticated successfully, or whether we've simply chosen to ignore their feral habits as such.

Well there are red pandas. I've always wanted to cuddle one

i read that Japan tried for a long time and lost many good people to it before giving up, long ago.

Then why are house bears not a thing? Not fair.

Worth it.

Tigers are fairly common household pets in places like India

Are you sure this statement is true¿? I never heard about any story of anybody having a fucking tiger as a pet

Tigers also kill people way more often than bears.

Stats on this are hard to compare because black bears are responsible for 1.2 kills in the US per year and tigers are like 34 kills per year in India which does have like 4x the population of humans, but also there’s a LOT less tigers to do that killing [like 5,000 tigers to 400,000 black bears] So like… yeah.

Tigers are not common household pets in India

Yeah... the -40° and the opened abdomen

celsius or fahrenheit?

I got another one:

The -40° acute angle of your neck

Seriously, polar bears are one of the few animals in the world that see humans as prey and a legitimate food source.

There are many animals that can kill you, very very few that will eat you.

From what I've heard they're basically like a dog with opposable thumbs, which sounds like an awful pet.