I mean they’re not like horses I don’t think they could carry a proportional tiny house amount of weight.

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    I think How To Train Your Dragon was basically a documentary about this. I’d recommend sizing yourself similarly. You’d want to make sure you didn’t bog down the maneuverability. I’d probably think GI Joe sized, possibly up to a barbie.

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      Really? I mean, humans can ride horses and I think aa horse would struggle to eat an adult human being. For this example I am assuming that horses are predators and as such are equipped with claws and fangs of course.

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        Pumas and lynxes both go after things that are outweigh them several times over, so I maybe wouldn’t count myself safe if I were small enough to ride a domestic cat

        Also anecdotally, having lived with pet cats most of my life, god damn they are fast and they’re stacked with more knives than the average kitchen. I would not want to fight a cat that was bigger than me.

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          If a domestic cat with claws intact wanted to kill you, it would be hard to stop it.

          I’ve only had brief encounters with truly angry cats, and they are nasty. One did a single swipe with its paw at my hand and just scooped out a chunk of flesh like I was made of soft serve ice cream.

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            Animals fight all-out. Humans usually don’t. If you were in a real fight for you life with a house cat–or even a bobcat–it would be pretty easy win for a human. Lynx or larger? No.

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              True, the human’s fight level would increase as death approached so a cat probably couldn’t kill them after all.

              But a cat could probably blind a human before the human realized how serious shit was.

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            Cats are extremely dangerous for their size but unless you were infirm or a child you’d have no trouble defeating a cat - it might leave you scarred and injured but if it’s you or a cat you win.

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              Yeah, at the end of the day I have something like a twenty to one weight advantage here. Yes it will hurt a lot every time the claws catch me, and they will catch me, but it will only hurt. The poor cat isn’t faring so well once I land a kick or a punch

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                If you land a kick or a punch.

                I bet a cat could open your carotid artery before you could touch it with your hands.

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                  I’d say I get about a one in four win rate against my cat when I try to tap him on that head without him catching my hand. I’ve got a big reach advantage

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            “Like soft serve ice cream” hahahaha, I actually chuckled. Because yes, I too have been a victim.

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        A lion would eat a human and is smaller than a horse. A predatory horse would wreck the shit out of a human.

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            No. There aren’t. That statement is a thought exercise to let us imagine a situation wherein there might be a predatory horse.

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              That sounds like something a predatory horse would say. How can I be sure this isn’t a trick?

              Fill in the blank. If you wanted to vote against a bill/law, you would not vote yay. You would vote _________.

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            Well, horses (and most other herbivores) are actually opportunistic carnivores, so they’re only a few generations away from switching from opportunistic to actively hunting some of their food.

            And by opportunistic carnivore, I mean they’ll chomp an unsuspecting small mammal or bird if the mood takes them.

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        And also, horses don’t regularly go vertical, upside-down, climb trees, etc…