That’s my point, 99.99% gentle is fine when they’re mostly harmless, the problem with large predators is that .01% event puts you in the hospital if it doesn’t kill you outright. A tiger’s excited pounce can break half the bones in your body, an excited swipe can disembowel. If those little kickers start going, you lose everything below the waist.
Having large predators for a pet pretty much always ends badly unless they get taken away in time.
You’re saying that like cats socialized with humans never once bite or scratch hard enough to harm. It’s not the thousands of play bites that are the problem, it’s when they randomly crunch down and unmake your shoulder instead of making you dig out the neosporin.
What? It’s literally the opposite. Do you remember the discovery that owning horses extends your lifespan by several years, not for any merit of its own, but because it strictly excludes the poor and most of the middle class?
The more money you have, the healthier you are, the longer you live, and the happier you tend to be. It’s straight propaganda that being rich is somehow a burden or requires people of exceptional mental strength to struggle on.
Yeah, I excitedly checked out the environmental, non-google, private search engine I’d never heard of, only to discover that Ecosia “only” shares all your data with Google and Microsoft Bing, as it uses their search engines and ad services. They do plant trees, but, their website doesn’t even pretend to be interested in privacy or avoiding Google.
No idea what that walnut is smoking.
Even the most well trained and socialized cats will still bite or scratch sometimes when excited or startled. Pretty much every cat owner has a story where their cat suddenly zoomed across them with claws out or randomly chomped instead of play biting. It’s going to happen eventually, and that goes double with an undomesticated predator.
There’s a reason why zookeepers are extremely careful with large cats, even when they raised them from cubs. No amount of professional socialization makes them safe.