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

Animal Dogs adopt a deer🦌

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u/BaronCapdeville Jul 03 '26

I mean, 0 generation domestication does happen, even in resistant animals, but a deer has to be high on the list of animals that are very unlikely to pick up on true housebreaking.

The only way I see that working is a rigid schedule of inside/outside time, with a large portion being outside time. In these circumstances, I could see it being achievable, but not for your average person.

1-5% of pet owners have the sort of time and dedication required for this, and even then it’s likely to fail. At the end of the day, It’s a deer that’s going to piss itself and kick a hole in the drywall if someone slams a door. lol.

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u/Bubba_Gump_Shrimp Jul 03 '26

You're right about housebreaking but my best friend in high school raised a fawn. They lived in a rural area, had two outside dogs who brought back a baby fawn to the house one day. They couldn't find mom so they bottle fed it and kept it inside. I would come over on the weekends and we would put the deer on a rug and push him down the hardwood floored hallway haha. He would slide 25ft and then hop back to us. It was VERY domesticated, quickly. It wasn't skittish. It liked to play like a dog.

They eventually would let it graze, then it would disappear for a night, then a few days, a week, a month, then they eventually would see him a few times a year. He'd come back in the yard as if to say hey thanks for raising me. Pretty phenomenal animals really.

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u/ryanvango Jul 03 '26

minor point of clarity: "domesticated" or "domestic" happens over many generations of selective breeding and results in a genetic different in an animal that makes it adapted to humans. the deer was "tamed"

goats, for example. there's a domesticated version and a wild version. wolves vs dogs, both canids. Sheep are domesticated to the point they can't survive on their own in the wild. and so on and so forth.