they also chose tiger ( not enough food , mallory thought , or sometimes they made you do silly tricks at circuses ) , lion ( still not enough food and you had to run to catch it and it was usually too hot where you lived or you were caged ) , a wolf ( people were scared of wolves and mallory liked people ) or a horse ( mallory had been there and done that , although he 'd done it well , very well , it was a lot of lugging his big warrior around and then there was the blood on those battlefields ) .