Are Hyenas going be the next hipster pet replacing pitbulls?

breadmaker · July 2, 2019, 4:23pm

If Nerdy gets a panda, I want one too!!!

Codtrawler87 · July 3, 2019, 10:40pm

Black_Swan:

False.

The pictured Hyena is a spotted Hyena, by every account from anyone remotely familiar with these, they can’t be domesticated. Everyone who uses these as a sideshow in Africa pretty much abuses them and keeps them muzzled and drugged at all times. Because of their time to maturity, selective breeding of any sort would take human lifetimes. These things are an intelligent but weird animal kept in check by a violent social hierarchy and will never be kept in the US as pets, it’s currently illegal.

Striped hyenas are smaller and have more potential although by and large you still wind up with the same suite of problems and require a specialized diet that most people would be unable to procure / afford.

These animals belong in the category with jaguars which are considered technically untrainable.

pretty sure this is the greatest post on WC since I became a member. Pure gold given the context.