okay... dragons are real in that almost any dragon that has been imagined or drawn can take its components from actual dinosaurs that have existed... so you peeps need to pick a dinosaur or be more specific about -what kind of dragon- !!
Ligers are freek'in awesome because they are THE biggest cat. A male liger can outweigh the largest Tiger ever recorded quite easily. I've seen the second largest tiger in captivity (it was in Florida) his name is Ghenghis Khan and the top of his head was even with the top of mine... but if he ever stood up on his back feet... HAH! He could literally fit half of me in his mouth and then like bite me off at the waiste.
I freak'in hate Great White sharks, Bull sharks, and Tiger sharks... swim in the ocean a bit and i get REAAAL freak'in paranoid, becuase i've seen aerial photographs of these things swiming yards away from swimmers (unknown). And i guy right where i lived in florida got killed by a Bull shark just for jumping into the water in the bay. Same reason i hate friggin gators (they are everywhere in florida).
My choice would be a Jaguar. Pound for pound, no doubt, the deadliest cat. They kill things (habitually) by simply biting into the skull. (Same with thick shelled turtles, they just bite right through the shell.) Their teeth are unstoppable.
Wouldn't be too bad being a virus either... since 1 in 4 people now have Herpes !!!! gawd, there's a successfull little fuggin 'animal'. urg. Yes, That's Rigth, I Want To Be Fuggin Herpes !!! HA HAHAHA (But i pray to GAWD that i never catch that shite!) And holy shite dudes... 1 in 4 is like the national average, but i heard that in New York the average is like 1 in 3 ! Man i would be all weirded out if i lived there.