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    – Monica Cellio
    Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 1:36
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    $\begingroup$ This book has dog cavalry. I thought it worked quite well. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_series $\endgroup$
    – Ewan
    Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 8:57
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    $\begingroup$ @Ewan Dogs are not bears, so that's irrelevant to the question at hand. $\endgroup$
    – Thomas Jacobs
    Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 11:18
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    $\begingroup$ I would like to mention that using elephants as cavalry was anything but common. Only really sophisticated and complex societies were able to sustain War Elephants. $\endgroup$
    – mathgenius
    Commented Mar 28, 2016 at 16:18
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    $\begingroup$ @Ronk They aren't, actually; they're in the Ursidae family. They do share the Caniformia suborder with the Canidae family, which is perhaps what you were thinking of, but so does a walrus, so calling them "canine" based on that is a bit of a stretch. $\endgroup$
    – azurefrog
    Commented Mar 29, 2016 at 3:38