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Domestication isn't necessarily an objectively symbiotic affair. Pets are already a much more commensal thing tha they were.
I might argue Raccoons may just be parasitising on us by overflooding our dopamine receptors with cuteness. I think animals all over the world are slowly doing it.
And I'm not complaining.
But if we get our dopamine receptors juiced from the deal, surely that makes them symbiotes