Whar prehistoric extinct animal would have been most attractive as a pet or useful as a houshold animal?Reading about the extinct midget elephant Elephas falconeri of mediterean isles and the dward mammoths of siberian, it strikes me that they would be hard competition for shetland ponies in young girls hearts, in the same way the andrewsarchus might make a junkyard dog that eat rotweilers for breakfast…
A key characteristic of domestic animals is that you can domesticate them. How would you expect to know from fossil records how easy/difficult it would be to tame an animal?