Bulls vs Horses

ok this is really off the topic but...i guess this was silly a while before i got here.... ~:dizzy: i am sure all familiar with the game...tenchu:stealth assasians.......will one day i was walking through my yard and i heard two cats screaming.....i live by some apartments and i followed their screams to there.i soon discovered that the screams were coming from a third floor balcony.i scaled the building and rescued the two kittens.(the apartment was empty,they were abandoned...one male kitten ,which was all black...one female tiger stryped mostly grey and brown.i soon discovered that they were intelligent animals and they would play and wrestle as kittens do.so i started to train them.i trained them to climb in some apple trees in my yard and behind the orchard there is some grass i was too lazy to cut.ten years later it is a field and a mini forest.i taught them to hide.they first started to bring back mice and then they got better.they started to bring back rabbits and squirrels.i thought about making them little ninja outfits but they didn't seem to like them all so well...lol.and it wasn't too long after that they began to mate and the next spring....i had a clan of ninja!the best fight they were ever in was when a raccoon tried to eat their cat food and rikimaru(the male,black kitten)got the raccoon away from the food and ayame(female )started to chase it away.when the raccoon started to walk away and that is when it got fun...ayame jumped and with four feet of claws,she jumped in the middle of that raccoon's back and it squatted,screamed,and took off running and it dragged ayame with it until it was away from the cat food.
cats are extremely intelligent and make good warriors.i was so happy that their training finally came in to good use... :jumping: ...ayame swooped out of no where, that raccoon didn't know what hit him...lol...it took about a year for them to be what i would call ninja...the three males out of their first litter were quite amazing as well...one yellow and orange tiger striped..he was called...rayz...,one orange tiger striped. he was called ....strykes...,
and one black one with brown tiger stripes..he was called...illusion... .
well one day strykes and rayz were fighting/playing and illusion ran up to them..rayz was on top of strykes and illusion jumped in the air kicked rayz in the head..he tried to stryke back but fell as illusion grabbed on to a tree...
and as soon as rayz hit the ground illusion jumped on strykes and he was done for.....illusion walked away ,sat down...and started to lick his paws.....
cats fast agile deadly... ninja cats..assasians of the animal kingdom

My friend has a killer cat with no front claws. It is frightened of everything, including laser pointers (which drive most cats mad) and insects (she runs and hides from crickets), but the last time they let her out of the house she brought back a rabbit and spread its dismembered body all over the basement ~:eek: ~:eek: ~:eek:

She is a soft-gray applehead and she is fat but evidently she can run when she wants to. And has found a way to kill without claws. ~:eek:

DA

cats are very resourceful animals.

Hi all, back on the original topic there are a few things that havnt been mentioned. I grew up on a farm and we had bulls/cows, horses, sheep, etc.

Firslty - warhorses are not only trained to charge, but kick as well. A warhorse in a melee is actually a formidable opponent and with its powerful kick can do a lot of damage. A Bull simply does not have the agility to pull off such manouvers - it would charge into a pike wall and die. A horse's agility at least will let it jump the first row perhaps.
Also their [horse] speed advantage is critical when used for flanking and other such manouvers.

Secondly - (this has been mentioned) Stamina, you've got to remember that an army has to travel long long distances and I'm not sure if a bull has the stamina (being much heavier with shorter legs) to go the distances required, let along navigate some of the terrain required.

People have also bought up the intelligence factor which is probably a key part of it as well, however many people believe that cows are dumb, which is not true. Cows (not bulls) are actually very intelligent but their docile and relaxed movements can be misleading. Cows would very often get the better of sheep dogs back on the farm by outsmarting them and luring them into traps.

On an interesting note, a tactic used in medieval times was to actually charge herds of bulls into enemy formations to try and break them up, so someone did think of using bulls in combat - just not riding them.

Also the first horses to appear on this planet were about the size of a small dog, amazing what selective breeding over thousands of years can do huh?