No disagreement there. There is a video of a pet bear who was rescued as a tiny baby and raised like a dog. Comes when called, lives in the house, curls up with people and cats, really cute. I think I found that on Russia Behind the Headlines
I love my squirrels, put nuts out under a big tree for them at night, and they often bring them up on the porch and eat them where I can see them. Guess they consider themselves pets now. My cat disagrees.
I knew this gal who lived in the 2nd story of a Victorian style house in Capitol Hill Denver - she let the squirrels into the house. They would sit on the dining room table. (It was cute but I was scared. Yuck, ok?)
I will let the squirrels draw near and do tricks for food, but they’re not welcome in the house. I constantly explain to them that they might have to look somewhere else for food at some point. I’m not sure if they understand or not but I don’t want to have to snuff any of them.
Birds are all right. In fact, I have a sign up to the effect that the corn I leave out is for BIRDS ONLY. Any deer taking the corn are risking being shot. I note a lot of the deer around here can’t read. Just another sign of taxpayer-funded education failure.