1. I chose a story about domesticating wild animals and its history that starts 30 to 40 thousand years ago. Link: http://www.theonion.com/article/study-humans-began-domesticating-animals-comfort-c-51391

2. The Onion`s argument is that people are domesticating wild animals, like wolves, in order to “comfort” children whose parents had separated. According to The Onion, our ancient ancestors first tamed and bred gray wolves 30 to 40 thousand years as a means of providing their children with a companion to keep them occupied and feeling less alone as they dealt with the emotional trauma of their mother and father splitting up.
The funnies part of this article is in its arguments about taming wild animals. Nowadays, we can rarely see a tamed wolf, all because they are wild and dangerous. I can`t possibly imagine a wolf instead of a cat for example, as a friend for children.
In my opinion, The Onion`s article is parodying a story about Mowgli from “The Jungle Book” series, where a boy whose name is Mowgli was found as a baby and raised by the wolves.

3. I chose this story because I found it unrealistic and funny. It also reminded me about a story of Mowgli that I read in my childhood.

4. I know that people always tried to tame different animals, including wild ones. Taming a wild horse is difficult; taming a wild elephant is even more difficult. However it`s almost impossible to tame a wild hunter, like wolf or lion, unless you do it since their first days of life so they would trust and sometimes even consider you as their own parent.;

5. As previously mentioned, the funniest part of this article is about taming wild animals. There is also another funny part about wild animals being a “travel” companion for children while they travel between their parents 30-40 thousand years ago.

6. An article about wild animal domestication I found explains the reason why they can never be domesticated, or in other words become “pets”. The main argument of the article is that wild animals are usually “tamed” by way of abuse, fear or starvation, in which case, they can never be fully domesticated or become a pet of your children. While there are other ways of taming and domesticating wild animals, most of the time they are too aggressive, and that`s why people use different methods like fear or starvation. Link: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/why-exotic-animals-can-never-really-be-pets/

7. These two arguments are completely different. One states that people tamed wild animals thousands of years ago, another states that it`s almost impossible to tame a wild animal.