It can be argued ether way as I shall attempt to demonstrate.
The dictionary definition includes several aspects so depending on which one you use animals such as cats and horses can be removed from the domesticated animal list. Here are a few that are relavant.
- "to tame (an animal), especially by generations of breeding, to live in close association with human beings as a pet or work animal and usually creating a dependency so that the animal loses its ability to live in the wild."
- "To accustom to household life or affairs."
- to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
Tame has the following definitions - "without the savageness or fear of humans normal in wild animals; gentle, fearless, or without shyness, as if domesticated" and "changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated"
If you go off these then horses and cats and several other animals generally considered domesticated can be removed from the list right off the bat as they can survive fine in the wild. That said by using those definitions you can consider many animals domesticated if you keep them as pets because if they don't have fear of humans and are accustomed to household affairs then they are tame and a domestic animal.
It depends entirely on what definition you use and how they are generally viewed by joe average. A little thought is also required, if I said show me a wild Bactrian camel you would actually in all probability show me what could be described as a feral Bactrian camel. The never captive bred camel has a genetic difference between it and the domestic one that is about as much as seperates us from chimpanzees as well as a visibly different body shape and several different features including different genetics to domestic Bactrian camels incuding salt tolerance.
links to my point about camels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bactrian_camel and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrian_camel
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