the bolded being the operative word. Mine, just as much as yours, thinks I'm (you are) its servant. And it's right. Had I not humiliated myself into that role, it would have gone in search of somebody else who's more in line with its egomaniac sense of own grandiosity.
With wild cats that doesn't work, incidentally. They never become domesticated even where they'll eat what you lay out for them.
Well, I'm not going to bond with any Tiger, believe you me.
Actually they do it only because they're accustomed to us. If raised by us from puppy- respectively kittenhood. Hence my example above of wild cats. Try even getting near a wild wolf. Where we haven't bred any feral instincts out of them completely, we're suppressing thos all their lives by keeping them puppy or kitten permanently. Since it benefits them it doesn't occur to them to mind that.
Objection, yer honor. Orcas savaging other whales is not my idea of bonding, nor is chimp gangs doing the same to another. In the latter case, come across one like that in the wilds and you'd better make tracks. Every single one if them is stronger than you are. Horses, devoid of claws and hooves, are by necessity animals of flight. They won't bond with you in the wild, you need to break them. In the more modern method "persuade".
Etc., etc.