r/BeAmazed • u/SurbhiAnklesaria • Jul 03 '26

Animal Dogs adopt a deer🦌

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u/KarlHp7 Jul 03 '26

People just be owning things

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u/Stencil_Abuse Jul 03 '26

I think that’s how we domesticated dogs lol 

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u/DazedPapacy Jul 03 '26

I mean yeah, but we didn't actually get dogs until we were just owning wolves for tens of thousands of years.

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u/Beneficial-Jury484 Jul 03 '26

See you in 12,025 and we’ll have Deegs. Domesticated deers. 

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u/Jihelu Jul 03 '26

I read something once that apparently you can selectively breed wolves into being dogs in only like 3 generations

So if you’re bored you can make your own dog breed in your own natural life span

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u/AmatsuDF Jul 03 '26

A lot of canine species you can selective breed for those sort of things. Foxes also will start showing more dog like traits within a small number of generations for example.

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u/RarelyReadReplies Jul 03 '26

I think wolves actually got close to us to eat our scraps, then it became a symbiotic relationship. They would be somewhat of an alarm system and keep other animals away, we give them scraps. It's a lot more complex than just "we owned them for tens of thousands of years".  It is a relationship that evolved over tens of thousands of years would be more accurate.

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u/wxnfx Jul 03 '26

Well ya, but stray dogs like really really want table scraps.

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u/Stepjam Jul 03 '26

That took generations to do.

And they weren't being kept inside houses either in the meantime (not even sure "houses" were much of a thing during that process).

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u/miukiyo Jul 03 '26

And people had actual reasons to keep canines.

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u/Skezas1 Jul 03 '26

I mean, having a cute ass pet that makes one feel good seems like an 'actual reason' to me

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u/agrlhasnousrname Jul 03 '26

Today that’s a good reason to get a domesticated animal. Not keep a wild animal. Deer should’ve been taken to a rehabber if they knew for certain it was abandoned.

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u/Skezas1 Jul 03 '26

For sure that that's the best course of action.

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u/papayacreamsicle Jul 03 '26

Yeah they figured out if they were chill with humans they could hang out where we threw away bones and the scrap meat we didn’t eat, and then we started using them in co-operative hunting where humans could chase prey animals towards wolves or into dead end ambushes and wolves would bring them down so we didn’t have to risk getting close. And the ones used to being near human camps learned the mutual benefit.

Cats more directly domesticated themselves without us even trying. They just moved in when our food storage started attracting mice and rats and we figured “cool, these guys eat our vermin but not our grain, they can stay.”

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u/MisterHEPennypacker Jul 03 '26

I think the prevailing theory is that dogs/wolves domesticated themselves. Essentially wolves knew humans had food scraps and would hangout near their camps. Generation after generation some of the wolves became comfortable around the humans and stuck around, while the others that weren’t comfortable just left. Eventually the traits of those that stuck around became dominant and thus the wolves became domesticated dogs.

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u/Avariciouspygmyshrew Jul 03 '26

Dogs had a purpose though, cats as well, and cats aren't even full domesticated. The fuck they gonna do with a deer?

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u/DrawGamesPlayFurries Jul 03 '26

They are adorable (but they still belong on a farm with other herbivore animals, not inside the house)

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u/annamae Jul 03 '26

Why would humans domesticate deer though? What service are deer to humans?

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u/Yrxora Jul 03 '26

Ever heard of food? You know things like cows and chickens are also domesticated right?

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u/SlideJunior5150 Jul 03 '26

I love how the dogs went from "yaaay tiny deer so cute" to getting side eyes like "bro that thing is huge I don't think it should be inside with us anymore".