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>I don't know what kind of dog that is, but I would definitely ride it into battle.
That's a Caucasian Ovtcharka. Also known locally as "wolfslayer dogs". And it would probably be down with letting you ride it into battle, providing you can hang on after it enters the blood rage.
I don't like to make sweeping general statements about the dispositions of dog breeds, but the Caucasian Ovtcharka tends to bond closely with its owners, and assume everything else is a treacherous fucking wolf in disguise. Consequently, everything they don't perceive as family, they hate with a stark homicidal fury so intense we have no words for it, because any person who ever feels that level of unmitigated psychotic rage is morphed into a Caucasian Ovtcharka by it. This is where we get the legend of the werewolf, and this is why the breed is known to sometimes grow up to 220 lbs, exactly as large as an adult man.
Their anger's caused them to evolve lightning breath and heat vision; they simply never use it because they enjoy the taste of blood and the tactile sensation of limbs rending in their jaws too much.
We're never going to find other life in this galaxy, because the dog the Russians sent into space was an Ovtcharka and it murdered all other living beings in the Milky Way while it was out.
In general terms, that is, although again, I don't like making all-encompassing statements regarding the disposition of any given breed.