Absolutely a form of domestication, just in the way short wheat and buff chickens are instead of the way floppy-eared friends are. "Ignore everything else to s

Absolutely a form of domestication, just in the way short wheat and buff chickens are instead of the way floppy-eared friends are. "Ignore everything else to single-mindedly go after prey" is, in the wild, a great way to get eaten by slightly larger predators.