I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
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Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
I didn't grow up around wild horses, no. But I've appreciated their beauty and their power ever since I can remember.
It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.
Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.
You can be very wild and still be very wise.
You can't just let nature run wild.
If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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