[quote=@WilsonTurner]
And stop taking everything so literal- what is a dog? "Man's best friend." A horse to a giant is  a similar relationship, though more intelligent in many ways.

God, if I knew there would be such hard understanding of giants that aren't ten stories tall, I wouldn't have bothered.

Scratch Declan, I'm not in the mood to put up with a small crowd of skeptical criticizers.
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I apologize if you thought our responses were harsh, but you made some pretty bold and aggressive claims. The relationship of dog and man was created by certain needs of both parties, security for us and steady food for them. Horses are not predators, outside of the context of labor and transportation there is little that could foster a relationship of the sort that exists between men and dogs.

[[i]For more on the load bearing capacity of horses, see my response to Fillet on the bottom of the previous page[/i]].

We're not trying to be "skeptical criticizers" we're just taking this [i]seriously[/i], and considering the [i]how[/i] and the [i]why[/i] of things through historical and physical context.