History Main / DomesticatedDinosaurs

Given [[ScienceMarchesOn recent advances in scientific knowledge]], birds are considered LivingDinosaurs and we humans have domesticated them. We even eat them on a regular basis. The most common real-life domesticated dinosaur is thus [[CluckingFunny the chicken]].

* There is one familiar example of a domesticated "dinosaur" so common and successful that they outnumber humans more than three to one, and has been raised by humans for millennia, first for brutal bloodsports, then later for its delicious meat. [[CluckingFunny It's called a "chicken".]] Yes, being birds, chickens are considered living dinosaurs! (Making dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets very ironic, in hindsight.) [[TastesLikeChicken This means that chicken tastes like dinosaur]].

* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'': In "[[Recap/PowerRangersDinoChargeEndOfExtinction End of Extinction]]", the series finale, the Rangers go back in time and, in the course of [[spoilerdefeating the BigBad, unintentionally prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs; when they return to the present, they discover that dinosaurs survived into the present day, and the museum where they work is now a dinosaur zoo]].

* ''Literature/TheEnormousEgg'': A ''Triceratops'' [[ArtisticLicenseBiologyis hatched from a giant hen's egg]] and becomes the pet of a boy named Nate Twitchell, who names it "Uncle Beazley." Nate walks him like a dog every day, and once Uncle Beazley gets big, Nate starts riding on his back.

* ''Literature/TheEnormousEgg'': A ''Triceratops'' [[ArtisticLicenseBiologyis hatched from a giant hen's egg]] and becomes the pet of a boy named Nate Twitchell, who names it "Uncle Beazley".

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' sometimes has this, courtesy of Doraemon's "Momotaro-brand rice cakes" which turn any wild animal friendly to its feeder. One episode involve a mammoth, another involves a whole host of extinct animals, and a BigDamnMovie and its remake involves a dinosaur that befriend Nobita... and a ''T. rex''.

Given [[ScienceMarchesOn recent advances in scientific knowledge]], birds are considered LivingDinosaurs and we humans have domesticated them. We even eat them on a regular basis. The most common real-life domesticated dinosaur is thus the chicken.

* ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/the-fellowship-of-heroes-0042/ The Fellowship of Heroes]]'': A supervillain overran the southwest states with dinosaurs, many states were evacuated, Texas decided to domesticate them. It's first mentioned when Crusader wrangles up a baby brontosaur that escaped from a traveling rodeo.

Also see HorseOfADifferentColor and CoolPet, as well as AllAnimalsAreDogs for when the dinosaurs act just like real-life pets, and FluffyTamer for the sort of human character who keeps these things around. Typically occurs in a OneMillionBC setting, a LostWorld, in MedievalPrehistory, or as a result of TimeTravel, but can also appear in a present-day setting with LivingDinosaurs. A pretty severe inversion of the PrehistoricMonster trope, too, since it relies on dinosaurs being just another class of animals. The dinosaurs may be treated as FantasticFaunaCounterpart to varioius domestic animals. Related to NonMaliciousMonster and to an extent, BenevolentMonsters.

* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'': ''Literature/DutyCalls'' features dinosaurs used as livestock. Unfortunately, the Tyranids are on the planet, meaning that the huge herbivorous beasts are also excellent sources of biomass for the 'nids to make new troops with.

Also see HorseOfADifferentColor and CoolPet, as well as AllAnimalsAreDogs for when the dinosaurs act just like real-life pets, and FluffyTamer for the sort of human character who keeps these things around. Typically occurs in a OneMillionBC setting, a LostWorld, in MedievalPrehistory, or as a result of TimeTravel, but can also appear in a present-day setting with LivingDinosaurs. A pretty severe inversion of the PrehistoricMonster trope, too, since it relies on dinosaurs being just another class of animals. Related to NonMaliciousMonster and to an extent, BenevolentMonsters.

* The earlier chapters of ''Manga/BlackCat'' has Madam Freesia, an aristocrat who really likes to collect rare objects, including a pet T. rex named Flora, who escapes and causes much destruction.
* ''Anime/GarzeysWing'', has villainous knights mounted on big dromaeosaur-looking animals.
* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' sometimes has this, courtesy of Doraemon's "Momotaro-brand rice cakes" which turn any wild animal friendly to its feeder. One episode involve a mammoth, another involves a whole host of extinct animals, and a BigDamnMovie and its remake involves a dinosaur that befriend Nobita... and a T-Rex.

* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', the residents of the prehistoric-themed planet Guling are shown to own dinosaurs as pets and ride them to travel around.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Gert has a pet ''Deinonychus'' named Old Lace. She was genetically engineered in the distant future and is given orders via a psychic link.
* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' ran with this idea by having the Cursed Earth – the post-apocalyptic wasteland between the Mega Cities of North America – infested with reborn dinosaurs. A long-running strip followed a pioneer "wagon train" leaving ComicBook/JudgeDredd's Mega-City One to search out an unspoilt corner of the continent in which to build a better life; they encountered both raptor packs, some of which had been "tamed" by sub-human mutant tribes as riding beasts, and by others as beasts of burden.
** Elsewhere in ''2000 AD'', tyrannosaurs repeatedly turn on humans who try to tame them. A story arc revolved around a bull tyrannosaur with a certain sentience, who absolutely hated the humans who'd treated him sadistically.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'', the Robinson family ends up adopting the ''T. rex'' used against them. [[AllAnimalsAreDogs He acts like a dog.]]

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* ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi''. An old west rodeo makes a successful sideshow out of an eohippus, and then they find an allosaurus and try to put him in the circus. Naturally, he escapes and eats a lot of people.
* The ''Film/{{Prehysteria}}'' series of kids' movies involve pet dinosaurs.
* Complex example in ''Film/JurassicWorld''. Raptor handler Owen Grady is on very familiar terms with the park's four ''Velociraptors'', and has raised them from birth to gain their trust, but he'll emphatically deny ''controlling'' them. When another park worker falls into their enclosure, Owen's able to get the raptors to stay back long enough for the other man to flee, then even he has to make a run for the exit before he's eaten. Owen may be the pack's alpha, but that just means he has to always been on guard for challenges to his authority. [[spoiler:Sure enough, near the climax, the raptors briefly switch sides and help the part-raptor ''I. rex'', but hesitate to attack Owen and his partner Barry. Owen ultimately convinces them to help, at which point three of them give their lives fighting to protect him.]]
** The park includes a dinosaur petting zoo containing young herbivores, including ''Triceratops'' with saddles that kids can ride. [[FridgeBrilliance Which is a good way to assure your visitors that the dinosaurs are safe, and if the baby dinosaurs grow up around their human counterparts, they'd be less inclined to be hostile towards them as adults]].
* As of the sequel to the above, ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', Owen is reunited with Blue, the last surviving member of the original Raptor Squad. While she is initially hostile after being betrayed and captured by the mercenaries, she later warms up again to her human 'dad', and later fights the hybrid ''Indoraptor'' to protect Owen and his friends. However, she doesn't take well to captivity, [[spoiler: and at the end departs once more to the Grand Canyon (refusing to come home with Owen) where she can live free once again.]]
** Much of the plot to the film also revolves around powerful people from all over the world trying to acquire the dinosaurs, including for military purposes.
* Kate in ''Film/DinosaurIsland2014'' has a pet dinosaur that acts a little bird-like.
* While under the care of the protagonist couple, the baby sauropod acts like a domesticated puppy in ''Film/BabySecretOfTheLostLegend''.
* Yoshi in ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' is a pet of the royal family, and while Koopa mistreats him, he quickly bonds with Daisy and helps her escape captivity.

* ''Literature/JurassicPark'' is about a failed attempt at creating a dinosaur zoo. Certain spin-off video games let you succeed, though, by focusing on the upkeep of such a park if it really worked.
** In the book (although dropped from the film), one of [=inGen=]'s long-term plans was to breed small dinosaurs for children to keep as pets. [=BioSyn=], a competitor, worried they would make it so that they could only survive off of food produced by [=inGen=], giving them a nice monopoly on them.
* ''Literature/{{Dinotopia}}'', despite being the page image, is actually a subversion. The dinosaurs are every bit as intelligent as the humans and live in a LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy society.
* In ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'', the "pseudosaur" is listed as one of the hideous steeds of the molemen. Actually a subversion, because although the mole-men think that pseudosaurs are dinosaurs, they're actually [[{{Slurpasaur}} just oversized iguanas]].
* Creator/SMStirling's ''[[Literature/TheLordsOfCreation The Sky People]]'' has the Earth outpost tame dinosaurs via neural implant.
* Oliver Butterworth's ''The Enormous Egg''. [[ArtisticLicenseBiology A triceratops is hatched from a giant hen's egg]] and becomes the pet of a boy named Nate Twitchell, who names it "Uncle Beazley".
* In Creator/GeraldDurrell's children's book ''Literature/TheFantasticDinosaurAdventure'' (the sequel to ''Literature/TheFantasticFlyingJourney''), the Dollybut siblings and their great-uncle Lancelot travel back in time to the age of dinosaurs. By the end of the story, they adopt two juvenile animals: a female ''Diplodocus'' and a male pterosaur.
* ''Literature/TheStoneDanceOfTheChameleon'' takes place in a world inhabited by a lot of prehistoric animals. The local population has domesticated ceratopsids called huimur, small versions of which serve as pack animals and giant versions of which are ridden to war like war elephants, and theropods called aquars, which are [[HorseOfADifferentColor ridden like horses]].
* In ''Literature/ChronoHustle'' Jack gets himself a pet ''Triceratops'' while in the Cretaceous.
* Robert Mash's ''How to Keep Dinosaurs'' is a full book on dinosaur care with elaborate CG enhanced photo illustrations featuring dinosaurs in the modern world. The book covers dinosaurs as house pets, guard animals, livestock, and as zoo animals with a sense of BlackComedy throughout.
* One of the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels features dinosaurs used as livestock. Unfortunately, the Tyranids are on the planet, meaning they're just walking PowerUps for the 'nids.
* The book ''Literature/TheWayThingsWork'' is a children's book about how various machines function. The framing device is from the perspective of a visitor to a society that domesticate and use woolly mammoths in ''everything''. The machines explained in the book are operated by, used upon or represented by the mammoths.

* ''[[Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries 3001: The Final Odyssey]]'': [[FishOutOfTemporalWater Frank Poole]] is more than a little shocked to learn that, in the 31st century, ''raptors''[[note]]Given that his source material is stated to be [[Franchise/JurassicPark the "Jurassic" movies]], it was more likely a ''Deinonychus'' or similar[[/note]] are employed as gardeners, among other things. Apparently carnivorous dinosaurs, with a touch of genetic modification, make excellent laborers; they're even employed as ''babysitters'', which leads to the ObligatoryJoke:
-->"Would you trust your kids to a dinosaur?"
-->"What - and risk injuring it?"

* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' is about a successful attempt at creating a dinosaur zoo. It's just a documentary series about the management and construction of a zoo, but the zoo happens to be [[RecycledInSpace for dinosaurs and other prehistoric critters]].
* On ''Series/{{Primeval}}'', Abbey kept a ''Coelurosauravus'' (not a dinosaur but a gliding reptile) as a pet. His name was Rex.

** The episode "Dinosaurs On A Spaceship" has the Doctor taming a ''Triceratops'' and then riding it around the ship.
** Spinoff series ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' gives the main protagonists a pet ''Pteranodon''.
* Inverted on ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', where the ridiculously-suburbanized dinosaurs keep pet humans.
* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'': [[spoiler:In the series finale, the Rangers go back in time and, in the course of defeating the BigBad, unintentionally prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs; when they return to the present, they discover that dinosaurs survived into the present day, and the museum where they work is now a dinosaur zoo.]]
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', in the season 11 episode riffing "The Land that Time Forgot" Kinga and Max start a dinosaur BBQ bar and grill "Moon 14 Mesozoic Ranch", all human remains powerwashed out. Then Max forgets to lock the ''Allosaurus'' cage and they run for it.
* In ''Series/LandOfTheLost1991'', Annie has a baby ''Parasaurolophus'' named Tasha.

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* As with the source, this is invoked in ''Pinball/TheFlintstones,'' complete with a ball-spitting Bronto Crane.

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* The ''Podcast/TwilightHistories'' miniepisode “Beyond the Indus” takes place in a world where dinosaurs somehow survived in India, and were domesticated by the Indians as sources of food and beast of burden.
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** On the mammoth side of things, some Chaos tribes are able to use mammoths as war beasts. Although being Chaos tribes, it's less "domesticated" and more "beaten, abused and possessed by daemons".

** Certain Imperial Guard regiments also use Cold-One-like steeds instead of horses for their cavalry units. Experimental rules for them were released, but never made it into a codex.
** Dinosaur-like creatures called Grox are kept as livestock on many [[Characters/Warhammer40000Imperium Imperial]] worlds. A more dangerous creature called Carnosaurus (possibly the same creature used by Warhammer Lizardmen) is also mentioned to exist on a number of planets.
** The [[Characters/Warhammer40000TauEmpire Tau Empire]]'s Great Knarloc is very much like a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' with a big gun mounted on its back. The Kroot also ride smaller Knarlocs into battle.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', the halflings of the Talenta Plains are a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Central Asian nomadic tribe]] of dinosaur riders. Their most common mounts are ''Leaellynasaura'' ([[CallARabbitASmeerp which they refer to as]] "fastieths"), though other species like "glidewings" ([[PteroSoarer pteranodons]]) are also known.
** The standard rules also make this definitely possible, with druids and rangers given access to various prehistoric animals as their companions. Additionally, the 3.5 supplements ''Frostburn'' and ''Sandstorm'' suggest that paladins in arctic or desert settings might use ''Megaloceras'' and ''Diprotodon'', respectively, as mounts, and the book ''Arms and Equipment Guide'' offers the "axebeak" (a distinctly phorusrhacid bird) as a steed.
** Module [=WG6=], ''Isle of the Ape''. One of the groups of cavemen had phorusrhacids that they used as "hounds" to hunt down prey.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' also gives druids access to dinosaurs and pterosaurs as companions, and the Kellids are a steppe nomad culture who ride domesticated mammoths.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' and ''Jadeclaw'' have dinosaurs substitute for cows and horses. The text refers to them as "lizards," but the illustrations clearly show dinosaurs.
* In ''TabletopGame/MyriadSong'' many planets have dinosaurs for some reason, ''Troodons'' are a playable race, the descriptions for some species mention that they're often domesticated.
* In ''TabletopGame/Space1889'' several species of dinosaurs on Venus are used as work and riding animals by both the native venusians and human colonists.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Predation}}'' is built around this trope; the game is set in the late Cretaceous, and every player has a companion dinosaur. Various types of dinosaur have been integrated into society; ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambiraptor bambiraptor]]'' is a common pet and also used for pest control.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'':

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giants]] herd woolly mammoths. The relationship is said to be symbiotic, with the mammoths allowing the Giants to milk them and create cheese in exchange for the Giants' protection.
* ''VideoGame/ZooTycoon'':
** In the first game, the expansion pack ''Dinosaur Digs'' let you create a Jurassic Park of your own, though the expansion pack also included several Ice Age animals.
** ''Zoo Tycoon 2'' has the similar expansion ''Extinct Animals'', but with a wider variety of other extinct critters besides dinosaurs.
** However it's subverted in that like ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', the dinosaurs and prehistoric animals will escape their enclosures given the opportunity and attack or eat any helpless human they come across.
* In ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', the Voth, a race of RubberForeheadAliens descended from Earth dinosaurs (from [[Series/StarTrekVoyager VOY: "Distant Origin"]]), use [[MemeticMutation dinosaurs with freaking laser beams]] as pack animals and, for lack of a better term, living armored vehicles.
* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', Ayla's caveman tribe keep (four-legged) pterosaurs as flying mounts while the [[LizardFolk Reptites]] keep Tyrannosaurs.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', trolls often ride giant raptor-like creatures, while the tauren typically ride the brontotherium-like kodo. The trolls of Zandalar also use the apatosaurus-based brutosaurs as transportation (and one of said brutosaurs ended up the [[MoneySink most expensive purchasable thing]] in the game until it wasn't available anymore).
** In addition, there are also several dinosaur-like beasts that can be tamed by hunters, including [[RaptorAttack raptors,]] [[KillerRabbit compsognathus-like saurids,]] [[VertebrateWithExtraLimbs diemetradons,]] [[PteroSoarer pterrodaxes,]] [[WarElephants mammoths,]] [[RhinoRampage wooly rhinos,]] [[ToughArmoredDinosaur stegodons]] [[MixAndMatchCritters (picture a stegosaurus with the head of a rhinoceros),]] [[TemperCeratops ceratopean based direhorns,]] and [[TRexpy devilsaurs.]]
* The ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' franchise gives us Yoshi, who is referred to as both a dinosaur and a dragon. "Domesticated" might not be exactly the right word, as they're intelligent, have their own culture, and aren't treated as animals at all; but they [[SapientSteed do give people rides]].

* In ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' , Aptonoth (large herbivorous Monsters with traits from different kinds of dinosaurs, generally resembling duck-billed dinosaurs) are sometimes used as working animals by [=NPC=]s. In ''Monster Hunter Stories'' riders, including the protagonist, can tame any monster, and you can see Velocidromes being used as working animals as well.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Any dinosaur-like Pokémon under the control of the player or an NPC counts.
* One of the biggest selling points of ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'' is giving the player the ability to tame dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts. Those that are big enough can be fitted with saddles so that the player can ride them.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with the Giganotosaurus. You can tame them, but if they take too much damage at once they become enraged and will begin attacking anyone and anything around, including their tamer.
** Some creatures, like Titanosaurus and Liopleurodon, only remain tamed for a short while. Titanosaurus [[DespairEventHorizon goes off its food once tamed]] and will starve in a few days (this can be changed in server settings, but it still starves faster than it eats unless force-fed), and the ''[[WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn magical]]'' Liopleurodon decides it's had enough and teleports away.
** It's also [[AvertedTrope averted]] with some creatures, mainly bosses and alphas. These cannot be tamed at all without cheating.
* ''VideoGame/OriginalWar'': In this game set 2 million years ago (and thus too late to have actual dinosaurs) all three factions can boost their meager numbers by training local "[[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman apemen]]". The Arabs can also tame sabertooth tigers and mastodons.
* In ''VideoGame/KingOfDragonPass'' various dinosaurs exists alongside the setting's Bronze Age culture. They aren't normally domesticated, but there is a random event where you can find some Triceratops and tame them as beasts of burden for your clan.
* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn''. The dinosaurs are mechanical, and while Aloy can [[HollywoodHacking override]] them in order to make them fight by her side, there are only a few robots she can actually use as mounts (namely, the horse-like Striders, the bull-like Broadheads, and the bighorn-like Chargers, so no, you can't grab the reins of a [[KingOfTheDinosaurs Thunderjaw]] and munch on enemies). The sequel ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'', on the other hand, lets you ride the raptor-like Clawstriders, and furthermore, the Tenakth also seem to have figured out how to override machines and have used this ability to create, among other things, mecharaptor cavalry.

* In ''Webcomic/GiftsOfWanderingIce'', technology allowed for easy and widespread genetic manipulation. Ash's pet "Bitey" might look like a small raptor, but she's essentially a large bird whose latent "dinosaur" qualities (clawed forelimbs in lieu of wings, sharp teeth) have been "switched back on" and combined with parrot-like intelligence, ability to mimic sounds, and bright feathery plumage.
* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' the Empire of Blood uses a lot of dinosaurs in their military and in their gladiator arenas.
* In ''[[http://www.rhjunior.com/the-fellowship-of-heroes-0042/ The Fellowship of Heroes]]'' a supervillain overran the southwest states with dinosaurs, many states were evacuated, Texas decided to domesticate them. It's first mentioned when Crusader wrangles up a baby brontosaur that escaped from a traveling rodeo.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Turns out there was a sapient dromeosaur species that domesticated [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-07-25 other dinosaurs]], including [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-09-08 T. rex]].

* The very first cartoon character of all time, ''WesternAnimation/GertieTheDinosaur'', was a sauropod who did tricks on command, and would metatextually interact with live actors. If you're having trouble picturing this, imagine the "Hello John" scene from ''Film/JurassicPark'', which was a ShoutOut to this.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', famously. The prehistoric humans kept dinosaurs as pets and used them as industrial machines (e.g. a brontosaurus was used as a steam shovel). Bizarrely, many of these were sapient and would even remark on their lot in life with "It's a living." Dino and the unnamed Sabertooth Tiger were Fred and Wilma's pets, acting like a dog and cat respectively. Dino in particular was particularly fond of Fred and would tackle him to the ground when Fred came home.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders'', which was about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin guys who ride dinosaurs]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPig'' short "Prehistoric Porky" cave-Porky has a pet ''Brontosaurus'' named Rover.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** In the episode "I Dated a Robot", Fry fulfills one of his dreams: riding a ''T. rex'' in the Jurassic Kiddie Park.
** Not dinosaurs, but still prehistoric. The episode "Fun on a Bun" sees cavemen riding mammoths and using other Ice Age critters as war beasts.
* One future episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' featured a zoo of resurrected dinosaurs and pterosaurs where the dinosaurs could also perform tricks a la Ride/SeaWorld.
* {{Conversed}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' when Arthur, Buster, and the Brain are writing a fanfic sequel to Myth/RobinHood. Buster wants to write a scene where pirates ride an ''Apatosaurus'' into town and crush buildings. Brain points out that "dinosaurs and pirates never coexisted."

* ''WesternAnimation/DinoBoy''. The title character had a baby ''Brontosaurus'' named "Bronty" as a pet. The villains in various episodes sometimes had dinosaurs as beasts of burden, mounts, attack animals and so on.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Rock N' Roar", Buster tried to get his soccer ball back when it fell down a hole, but instead, he picked up an egg that hatched into a dinosaur. He tries keeping him as a pet, naming him "Rover", and [[VegetarianCarnivore raising him to be a vegetarian]], but Rover's massive size made a mess of Acme Acres and Monty tried to trap him. At the end, Buster had to return Rover to the cave where he found his egg.
* On the Creator/HannaBarbera Cartoon ''WesternAnimation/MightyMightor'', Sheera has a pet mammoth calf named Bollo. Little Rok also has a pet dodo bird, although that's a borderline example, since the dodo went extinct relatively recently. Plus, the villains of the show regularly used dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals as mounts and attack animals.

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', Bubba the Caveduck has a pet ''Triceratops'' named Tootsie.
* Due to OneMillionBC being subverted, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' had a version of Bubba and Tootsie that met for the first time. Bubba did attempt to tame her, but [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome calming down an angry]] ''[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Triceratops]]'' [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome isn't all that easy.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'', Chomps is Knuckles' carnivorous pet dinosaur who serves him by devouring intruders who came onto Floating Island.

* There's a popular photoshopped image floating around the internet of Napoleon Bonaparte riding on an allosaur. Images of Jesus riding a dinosaur or of Bible-era farmers riding triceratops are also often used to advertise, or satirize, creationism.

* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn''. The dinosaurs are mechanical, and while Aloy can [[HollywoodHacking override]] them in order to make them fight by her side, there are only a few robots she can actually use as mounts (namely, the horse-like Striders, the bull-like Broadheads, and the bighorn-like Chargers, so no, you can't grab the reins of a [[TyrannosaurusRex Thunderjaw]] and munch on enemies). The sequel ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'', on the other hand, lets you ride the raptor-like Clawstriders, and furthermore, the Tenakth also seem to have figured out how to override machines and have used this ability to create, among other things, mecharaptor cavalry.

*** Guar are vaguely theropod-like dinosaurids, about the size of a cow, which the native [[OurElvesAreDifferentDunmer]] farm for their hides and use as beasts of burden. Despite their awkward and clumsy appearance, they are NotSoHarmless and are quite capable of defending themselves. Concept art for the game shows them being ridden by armed and armored Dunmer as [[BeastOfBattle Beasts Of Battle]], but this was not present in the game itself. (There are still mentions of Guar being ridden in the lore, however.)

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', trolls often ride giant raptor-like creatures, while the tauren typically ride the brontotherium-like kodo. The trolls of Zandalar also use the apatosaurus based brutosaurs as transportation (and one of said brutosaurs ended up the [[MoneySink most expensive purchasable thing]] in the game until it wasn't available anymore).

Given [[ScienceMarchesOn recent advances in scientific knowledge]], birds are considered LivingDinosaurs and we humans have domesticated them and we eat them on a regular basis. The most popular real-life domesticated dinosaur is thus the chicken.

Given [[ScienceMarchesOn recent advances in scientific knowledge]], birds are considered LivingDinosaurs and we humans have domesticated them and we eat them on a regular basis. The most popular real-life domestic dinosaur is thus the chicken.

* There is one familiar example of a domesticated "dinosaur" so common and successful that they outnumber humans more than three to one, and has been raised by humans for centuries, first for brutal bloodsports, then later for its delicious meat. [[CluckingFunny It's called a "chicken".]] Yes, being birds, chickens are considered living dinosaurs! (Making dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets very ironic, in hindsight.) [[TastesLikeChicken This means that chicken tastes like dinosaur]].

* Young Earth Creationists believe that humans and dinosaurs coexisted in biblical times and that some dinosaurs were domesticated back then. They sometimes create hoax artifacts like the Ica Stones to promote this worldview.[[note]]Initially the Ica Stones were a money-making venture by a Peruvian artist, who carved the stones passed them off as ancient artifacts. Only a few of his stones depicted dinosaurs, with others depicting modern animals or just geometric designs. But when both Young Earth creationists and [[AncientAstronauts Ancient Astronaut]] believers showed great interest in the dinosaur stones, he kept making more. Even after the artist confessed to this, some [=YECs=] continued to pass them off as evidence of human and dinosaur coexistence. And copycats fed into the craze by carving their own "Ica Stones".[[/note]] This has resulted in images of Jesus riding a dinosaur being widely used to mock [=YECs=].
* The project to retro-engineer a chicken to look more like its prehistoric ancestors will result in this as while it may look different it will still be a chicken, albeit a new breed of chicken called a "chickenosaurus" and probably won't act any differently then a regular chicken.

* ''Series/PrehistoricPark'' is about a successful attempt at creating a dinosaur zoo. It's basically just a documentary series about the management and construction of a zoo, but the zoo happens to be [[RecycledInSpace for dinosaurs and other prehistoric critters]].

** In ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', the halflings of the Talenta Plains are basically a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Central Asian nomadic tribe]] of dinosaur riders. Their most common mounts are ''Leaellynasaura'' ([[CallARabbitASmeerp which they refer to as]] "fastieths"), though other species like "glidewings" ([[PteroSoarer pteranodons]]) are also known.

** In the first game, the expansion pack ''Dinosaur Digs'' basically let you create a Jurassic Park of your own, though the expansion pack also included several Ice Age animals.

** In addition, there are also several dinosaur-like beasts that can be tamed by hunters, including [[RaptorAttack raptors,]] [[KillerRabbit compsognathus-like saurids,]] [[VertebrateWithExtraLimbs diemetradons,]] [[PteroSoarer pterrodaxes,]] [[WarElephants mammoths,]] [[RhinoRampage wooly rhinos,]] [[ToughArmoredDinosaur stegodons]] [[MixAndMatchCritters (picture a stegosaurus with the head of a rhinoceros),]] [[TemperCeratops ceratopean based direhorns,]] and of course, [[TRexpy devilsaurs.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Rock N' Roar", Buster tried to get his soccer ball back when it fell down a hole, but instead, he picked up an egg that hatched into a dinosaur. He tries keeping him as a pet, naming him "Rover", and even [[VegetarianCarnivore raising him to be a vegetarian]], but Rover's massive size made a mess of Acme Acres and Monty tried to trap him. At the end, Buster had to return Rover to the cave where he found his egg.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': In the ''Ixalan'' set, the Aztec-inspired Sun Empire have domesticated feathered, [[ThePowerOfTheSun solar]] dinosaurs which they uses as beasts of burden and [[BeastOfBattle battle]]. This is parodied with [[https://scryfall.com/card/bbd/102/raptor-companion Raptor Companion]], according to which trained raptors can follow any order... as long as that order is some variant of "hunt", "kill", or "go for the guts".

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s Ixalan set, the Aztec-inspired Sun Empire have domesticated feathered, [[ThePowerOfTheSun solar]] dinosaurs.

* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', trolls often ride giant raptor-like creatures, while the tauren typically ride the brontotherium-like kodo. The trolls of Zandalar also use the apatosaurus based brutosaurs as transportation.

* Due to OneMillionBC being subverted, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' had a version of Bubba and Tootsie that met for the first time. Bubba did attempt to tame her, but [[RealityEnsues calming down an angry]] ''[[RealityEnsues Triceratops]]'' [[RealityEnsues isn't all that easy.]]

** In ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', the halflings of the Talenta Plains are basically a [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Central Asian nomadic tribe]] of dinosaur riders. They ride dromaeosaurids and herd ''Leaellynasaura''.