Pretty much, yes. People rarely grasp the difference between domesticated and tamed. And thus fail abysmally to understand why it is such a bad idea to trust any tamed/wild animal the way they want to. Hell, half the time you can't trust domesticated animals to act the way you want them to act, and they've been selectively bred to get along with humans for generations.
Which is not to say that I think all wild/exotic animals are bad choices for pets under all circumstances--i have a snake and bruce has a bunch of scorpions--but we certainly don't let them run loose in the house or cuddle with infants! Fuck, I wouldn't even leave my hound dog unsupervised with an infant, and I've had 11 years of training her and learning to trust her. Doesn't make it any less tragic were she to accidentally step on the baby's face and put a nail in its eyeball or something. There is absolutely no excuse for the sort of shit that happened there.
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Which is not to say that I think all wild/exotic animals are bad choices for pets under all circumstances--i have a snake and bruce has a bunch of scorpions--but we certainly don't let them run loose in the house or cuddle with infants! Fuck, I wouldn't even leave my hound dog unsupervised with an infant, and I've had 11 years of training her and learning to trust her. Doesn't make it any less tragic were she to accidentally step on the baby's face and put a nail in its eyeball or something. There is absolutely no excuse for the sort of shit that happened there.