The Dragon Age: Origins Website has a new video from BioWare's upcoming role-playing game. They say: "The Mabari are an essential part of Ferelden military strategy. Trained hounds can easily pull knights from horseback or break lines of pike men, and the sight and sound of a wave of war dogs, howling and snarling, has been known to cause panic among even the most hardened infantry soldiers." From the conclusion of the clip we can assume we were observing a male Mabari.