[jmacusa]

I’m a city boy but when I was young rode a horse a couple of times at a summer camp.

When I was in my twenties I took one , or rather it took me at a full gallop.

It only takes a second feeling the power of an animal, a fellow member of the mammal family that size to understand where you stand in the muscle food chain of life.

[EEGator]

Yep. By weight, humans are extremely weak.

I rode horses before, and you certainly feel their strength at full speed.
I’m 200 lbs, and it doesn’t even phase a horse.

[Melinda in TN]

I broke and trained some horses until I was in my 40’s. The most powerful, and last, I broke and trained was a gray mule. I had him green broke, but he hated dogs. I hit the ground one time too many when a dog got close. I wanted to ride him in our local wagon trains instead of my horse but since so many bring dogs on the train, that wasn’t going to happen. We took him to the Columbia Mule Days and sold him green broke with a warning about dogs. LOL

[DouglasKC]

“It only takes a second feeling the power of an animal, a fellow member of the mammal family that size to understand where you stand in the muscle food chain of life.”

Good observation. I felt the same way about water after flipping a canoe and being held under by the force of water against a log. No matter how strong I was I was powerless.

[PallMal]

I can't think of a single animal that is our size where I can say "yep, I can whip that animal with my bare hands".

We're pathetic in the size-to-strength ratio.