Soylent Druid

[Tor the Fallen]

Not to mention, will your DM even allow riding dogs in a jungle setting? Dogs? Doesn't seem to be very jungly to me. And then, who trained them for riding/fighting? Especially the riding part seems rediculous... riding any animal in (besides maybe a giant gorilla) a thickly jungled environment just seems to be a bad, if not impossible, idea. I won't even go into the barded leather...

Remember your setting, cuz your DM wont forget. You might want to think of some good jungle type animals and prepare yourself along that route.

Have you ever been to the tropics?
There are plenty of canines.
Dogs have been trained for war since ancient times, too.

As a medium sized creature (human), you can't actually ride the dog. Besides, riding the dog means you'd have to forgo its attack, unless you wanted to sink a bunch of skill points into ride, which become useless at level five. I don't think my DM would go for the dire ape riding a dinosaur + string of riding feats.