• Wahots@pawb.social
    45·
    1 month ago

    Probably red pandas. I’m still a bit surprised they are wild animals, they seem too silly to be like…doing their own thing out there.

  • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    35·
    1 month ago

    A bear. They are just adorable and silly and cute until they eat you completely for no reason.

        • confuser@lemmy.zip
          2·
          29 days ago

          So far its only been a week and I’m starting to realize that I haven’t chosen a good spot to place food and should find a spot or feeder where I can have water and the food in a nice open part of the yard raised in the air a bit and hopefully in a spot I can aim a camera at. I was playing with dogfood and saw 1 juvenile crow only because I had set up a camera from a old phone, today I got some unshelled unsalted peanuts. I think to get the ball rolling better I need to go walk around and find some crows and lead them towards the house. I grabbed a old broke plant pot made of ceramic and broke the ceramic into small pieces so I can offer some shiny objects to the crows so maybe they either see the food better or take this as a gift and start connecting with my spot more. I don’t think I am on their normal route and we have a lot of other miscellaneous birds and dogs and cats and some small predator wild animals around and in a suburb so i don’t think it will be very easy to get them to come regularly, I was surprised to even get the one bird once.

  • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 month ago

    Assuming their domesticated enough to listen to my commands and ignore their pray drive, on like a magical level, Tiger. Hands down. I would go to the Renaissance Fair with them and commission a blacksmith to forge armor for them. I would ride it into battle whenever necessary.

    Edit: I was also assuming no one else has a magically domestic animal. If everyone in this thread also has one, I’ll choose Rhinoceros

    • qyron@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      30 days ago

      So, essentially, you chose violence, be it through He-Man (Battle Cat) or the Teenage Mutant Turtles (Rocksteady).

      • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
        1·
        30 days ago

        I just want to be ready, in case everyone else chooses violence.

        If, all of a sudden, there were a handful of people that had a magical connection with an otherwise dangerous animal; I imagine, either those people would fight each other or team up against someone with a robot army. Either way, a tiger would have a lot of weak points, even with armor.

        • qyron@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          29 days ago

          Fair point.

          For a truly scary animal to have on your side, what do you think of wasps? Airborn, vicious and capable of team work.

          • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
            1·
            29 days ago

            You would need at least an entire hive, the rules state only one animal. But if you got a Queen, you probably could control an entire hive🤔 you’ve given me something to think about for sure

      • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        I’m pretty sure a Rhino would wreck any kind of bear, the only animal I think i would need to worry about is an elephant, would a platypus be able to penetrate a rhino’s skin?

        • Ziglin (they/them)@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 days ago

          Hear me out: a bear is useful, fuzzy and could probably squeeze through doors.

          A platypus is just perfect, I don’t need it to have combat proweses when I can play with a platypus instead of fighting.

          Being the only one with a bear would of course make fighting an option but still I wouldn’t want it to get hurt.

          • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 days ago

            I like and really appreciate how you think. I definitely wouldn’t attack you with my Rhino, but I, personally, will not pick something that would leave me vulnerable against someone else who might. I hope you and your platypus-bear live in harmony🙏

            Edit: but just so you know, a platypus wouldn’t leave you completely vulnerable, because they do have poisonous barbs. I’m not sure how effective those barbs are against large animals or humans, but I’m sure it would at least be a good deterrent

  • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 month ago

    Mountain Lion, for home defense. Hard to act tough when your buddy just got dragged up to the balcony by their broken neck and stairs weren’t involved in getting him there.