All Animals Are Domesticated/Playing With

Basic Trope: Any animal can be tamed and taught to live like a house pet

• Straight: Bob has a pet grizzly bear that sleeps in Bob's back garden, eats honey from his hand, and comes when he hears his name called.
• Exaggerated: Bob has a pet Tyrannosaurus Rex that acts like an overgrown lap dog around him.
• Downplayed: Bob has a pet squirrel, that is tame but generally acts like a squirrel.
• Justified:
  • Bob has raised his bear from since it was a cub, he knows how to read the bear's mood, knows what food it likes and has a generous amount of land for him to roam in
  • Bob is a Fluffy Tamer with a supernatural ability to tame any animal.
• Inverted: In a Scavenger World, there are no domesticated animals; even dogs and cats run wild and are wary of humans.
• Subverted: Bob approaches a wild bear with honey, who seems to react to it, but then attacks Bob.
• Double Subverted: But he was just playing. After eating the honey, he licks Bob's face affectionately.
• Parodied: Bob enters his bear in the American Kennel Club Dog Show, the bear gets disqualified for not being of breed standards.
• Deconstructed: The bear was not meant to live the life of a pet, Bob inevitably has to release him into the wild but the bear has lost his ability to survive in the wilderness and dies.
• Reconstructed: Bob hires a professional bear tamer to train the bear as much as is possible, and builds him a large enclosure where he can live as a bear without being released to the wild.
• Zig Zagged: Some wild animals can be domesticated, while others, not so much.
• Averted: All wild animals are depicted as wild.
• Enforced: "We need more cute animals. Bring in a bear!"
• Lampshaded: "I didn't know it was even possible to tame a bear..." "Yeah, isn't it awesome?"
• Invoked: ???
• Defied: Bob refuses to get anywhere near a wild animal, recognizing the danger.
• Discussed: "I hear Bob has a pet bear." "Really? He must spend a fortune on honey and salmon!"
• Conversed: "Oh, come on! Why do wild animals never act like wild animals in these shows?"
• 'Played for laughs: The bear acts like an upper class twit, relaxing on posh chairs drinking tea and eating crumpets.
• Played for drama: The bear dreams of the wild and the mate he left behind, causing him much misery and sorrow.

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