tamable

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But Mr. Carlson wound up being entirely tamable, while the more diminutive Mr. Loughlin lived like a wild man until his tragic death.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2015

Take, for example, the common English name of this low-flying falcon, the most tamable and affectionate of his tribe, and therefore, I suppose, fastest vanishing from field and wood, the buzzard.

From Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by Ruskin, John

It is more tamable and docile than the Himalayan Sun Bear, and is even more eccentric in its ways.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

How is it, en passant, that some animals are naturally fearless and tamable, others not; and that even in the same family? 

From At Last by Kingsley, Charles

A hawk or an eagle is never tamed, but a crow is more easily and completely tamable than the gentlest singing-bird.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various