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- [Dave Mullican] I just got attacked by a mountain lion.
Good boy Chaos. You keeping the hook off of me.
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Holy s...
That was the scariest s... I've ever seen.
Motherf... bit me.
Shredded the back of my shirt.
Keep him off of me boy.
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Good boy Chaos.
Keep that f... away from me.
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Best come down boy.
You won't be a bad ass now.
Come down. I guarantee this dog will kill you.
That's why you ran like a sissy
after he had you by the neck.
I didn't survive a mountain lion attack.
I was rescued from a mountain lion attack by my dog.
(upbeat hip hop music playing)
My name is Dave Mullican, Real Deal Dog Training.
The day started for me,
I wasn't having such a good morning.
Business wise I was having a little altercation with
one of our border trained dogs.
Me and the wife were arguing a little bit.
So I decided to clear my head
and take off to the mountains and go hike.
Just something I like to do.
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So I went to Lado Creek,
San Marino National Forest.
I'm real familiar with the area
I kind of know it like the back of my hand.
I took Chaos with me, and to be 100% honest
it was out of pure laziness.
I usually take my puppy
that I want to groom up and teach
new things and stuff like that and he was up
on the top arena, and his father Chaos was on the garage
and it was just, like I said, out of pure laziness.
I was just, I got the closest dog, I went to the car
and left.
Nice waterfall up there, nice things to do
beautiful scenery.
We do see a lot of wildlife but is mostly small wildlife.
From quirrels to rabbits, to Bobcats, stuff like that,
never seen a mountain lion, never seen even a ram
that's supposedly up there.
The location I went to is a well traveled area
specially on the weekends, or towards the end of the week.
There's families up there from little babies, to dogs
to old people. I mean is well traveled
probably 1500 people on a Saturday alone
in the middle of the summer go up to the waterfall.
It was blue skies nice day, not too hot not too cold.
Perfect day for a hike, and that morning
I just wanted to be by myself, I was done with people
so I continued forward which I hadn't gone before
probably 300 yards from the falls.
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I started through
the foliage.
I got on a big pile of logs, and people say Spidey Sense
or your intuition, something told me
not to get off them logs, and I just took it as
they're unstable, so I got of the logs, right after
I got of the logs, spidey sense went away per say
and nothing out of the ordinary, continued my hike.
When I'm hiking with my dogs, I let them be free,
You know, they always in either earshot or eyeshot,
these they don't go too far.
So he was ahead of me, you know, maybe 25 yards ahead of me.
Just cruising through the canyon, so I came through
on a everyday hike, dog went ahead of me,
I stopped right here to look at the natural
water runoff in here.
Thinking that there could be gold down in there.
Just thought in my head.
Continued with my hike,
I got to right here
I heard a
noise.
When I heard the pitter patter, actually
is something I never heard before but it didn't scare me
in any way to turn around or check it out.
I just continued.
What got me to turn around is I been hiking up there
for so long that I know
the little tiny pebble slodge usually means the bigger rocks
are coming behind it.
So when I heard that, that's what actually got me to
turn around and look behind me.
(mountain lion growl)
I mean, paws and teeth. That's all I saw.
I literally just turned, screamed against this rock
and basically the fetal position.
The cat hit me so hard it slammed me into the rock.
It wasn't probably a half a second, and the dog was there.
But I could feel it breathing, I could feel it on me.
There's nothing I could have done no matter what
anybody says or think, or weapon
or whatnot. It was such surprised that
you didn't have time to do anything.
So when he hit the cat,
the cat went straight to his back, he had him by the neck
the cat wrapped the dog with all four claws,
he's on his back.
Had him wrapped up.
They're fighting, I was yelling.
The cat tried to bite him in the neck.
"No, no, no."
the dog was laying vertically in the Middle
of the cat's stomach.
And as I'm yelling, I could see the cat trying to push
the dog off a little to bite his neck.
And you can see in the collar
he actually bit
the side of his neck but he couldn't get a good bite
'cause of the collar.
At that time I was screaming and yelling
and then before you know it, there's this kind of
poof bunch of dust and
they're in the bushes.
So as the cat is trying to bite Chaos' neck
Chaos is just digging deeper and shaking and
just putting as much pain
and fighting to that
as he possibly could.
I came millilitering down here
not running by any means.
Screaming at the top of my lungs.
I honestly thought, he wasn't going to make it.
You know, is just them teeth are so big,
and what I was seeing.
Yeah, that's why I was yelling and screaming.
You know, that's my best friend.
I don't want nothing to happen to him.
Saw the dog shake one last time,
and then went in those bushes.
I grabbed my phone
and I actually called my wife
because I left that morning and didn't tell anybody
where I went, like an idiot.
I luckily got cell service and
let her know I got attacked by a mountain lion
and where I was and then the phone cutoff.
And that's when I started my video right there.
Holy s...
I just got attacked by a mountain lion.
Chaos, where is he?
And then finally as I'm calling my dog
I finally see my dog and then I started asking him
where's the cat? Show me the cat
He starts showing me the cat.
I didn't even know you could see, hearing the video
I didn't believe him
He ain't in the tree boy, I don't see him
but he knew exactly where he was, he you know,
I had to go get my dog
Like I said, he would not come to me
which is unheard of.
So I had a visual sight
basically, where I knew the cat couldn't be
so I went to get my dog
and once I got close to leash the dog, I noticed the cat
was above me in the tree .
Got this boy tree
(breathing hard)
Yeah that's the scariest s...in my life right there.
He had my shoulder Chaos jumped him.
Chaos is about half a mile ahead of me.
Started yelling and fighting
next thing you know Chaps come and jumped him
they were fighting for a good couple of minutes
come down boy, you gonna be a bad ass now
come down, I guarantee this dog will kill you.
I went from the most scared I ever been in my life
to the most mad I've ever been in my life
and you can see my boy is not playing.
He got a few battle wounds but he wants this cat.
And he wants him bad.
Try to explain to people my dog does not play.
You touch me and he will hurt you.
This cat is bleeding from the neck, the side of his face.
He up there moaning and crying.
But you just met a ....
I don't know honestly if I was videoing for
this might be my last video ever
I don't know, I was so scared I just did it.
And after I got that second video,
my anger started
to subside and I went back into fear.
And as I started to leave I took my eyes of the cat
and started to walk away and I heard another noise
I look back up and the cat is going to come
out of the tree on top of me.
And that's when I freaked out. I literally moved
right back to scary like I was in the beginning.
I turned around, I fired up my dog and I walked
out of there backwards.
I got out of the foliage to where, in the opening
where I knew I was going to be okay.
Well, thought I'd be a lot better than I was.
And all that adrenaline, it left,
and I literally collapsed
and started petting my dog and telling him how much
I loved him and checking him for wounds.
After I did that, you know a minute or two,
I wanted to continue on to get out of there to tell people
the ranger, the cops, you know, people that'll warn
other people.
And I really couldn't walk. I didn't understand it
at that time.
But I got to my car, and I loaded my dog.
I drove as fast as I could to the ranger station
to warn people and explain what happened
and
when I got there, I continued to tell the gentleman
what happened.
What I just went through, and at first he kind of laughed
he didn't believe me until he saw the back of my shirt
and then right away, it went from
joking around basically to serious business
he had fish and game on the phone, the warden
everybody within minutes.
So Chaos is Belgian Malinois.
He's my personal dog, and this dog is pretty fearless.
He does anything I ask him to do
but I honestly can't tell you that I would have thought
he would have came
and save me from a mountain lion
I mean, who does that, that's kind of crazy.
I mean, I know he will from a human, he'll do
anything I ask, but
that was like a true testimonial of what the dog
will do for me.
Put his life on the line for me.
I'm a dog trainer.
I think Chaos is a good testimonial to what I do here.
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I don't do it for sport,
I don't do it for play
I don't do it for fake protection dogs.
I like to build the fight in the dog.
I like that my dogs to fully understand
and be confident enough to fight in any situation.
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Let's go easy
easy, easy
easy.
My training philosophy has a lot of controversial
stuff to it.
You can call it a liability.
In my book anything is a liability.
You have a gun, you own a gun, is a liability
you kid gets a hold of it something bad could happen.
If you're a good gun owner, or a good handler,
good dog owner, there's a liability (mumbles) really quickly
yes, the gun could kill somebody, yes the dog
could really hurt somebody
but as we found out in real life
I rather have that liability on my side than not by my side
it's not so much
of the craziness in the dog if the dog is trained for this
just like anything else, is what you do with it,
is how you take care of it,
is how you mentor that dog into how to be a dog
when he's not doing his job,
he's like a real dog.
He plays with my kids, he hikes, he does normal things
but when is time for serious business
he understands
thank god, just like the mountain lion, that is not a game.
No hesitation, 100% hit the tread, and handle it
the best you can.
Pressure and confidence
is a huge thing that I train.
I train for real life whether,
I like to build just like the military
you build the confidence so high
these men think they're indestructible.
We all know we're not, but
with the confidence, along with the training
it's a really good mixture
like with the cat, there was no hesitation
he hit that cat like freight train
I couldn't even really fathom that in my head for a few days
like he didn't even hesitate
I, as a full grown human being coward.
(hip hop music)
With that being said, I want people to understand
you know, I didn't think my dog had
any chance with that cat.
Like I said I was crying, I thought my dog was done.
But if I would have lost my dog that day
and I would have survived,
yes I would have cried
yes, I would have been hurt for months
but in my book that's a good dog.
The dog kept me alive, the dog kept the cat off me.
The dog did everything I trained it to do.
I really believe that
you know,
it was up to god, whether
that dog lived or died.
It had nothing to do with my training or
I mean he's fighting a killing machine, he had no chance.
We're trying to educate people, and it
can happen to anybody.
A lot of people are thinking the same
I thought the same way as you.
I honestly did.
- I'm all by myself
- It won't happen to me, it only happens in this time
and this time, no.
- And I didn't bring my poles
I don't carry a gun but I carry a knife
- You know everybody says what they would do
to a mountain lion.
You know, I was one of those guys
100% to be honest with you, I thought
it wouldn't happen to me.
I carry a knife, I got this, I got that,
I'll stab it, I'll shoot it, all this stuff.
It's far from the truth .
Without the dog I was stuck.
I was at the mercy of that lion.
To be sitting here in the condition I'm in,
and the condition my dog is in, is unheard of.
I've talked to rangers, fish and wildlife,
I've talked to a lot of people.
I truly believed I'm blessed to be here
and nor only that,
it's changed my life a lot
I stopped smoking cigarettes.
It made me realized that life is precious.
That it can end at any day.
I honestly believe if my dog wasn't there that day
I'd be dead.
We wouldn't be having this conversation.
My kids would gave no father, my wife would have no husband.
(hip hop music playing)
I mean, the days look different, the sky
looks different to me, the dogs bark different.
Everything is different to me,
I can't explain it so much as in
I'm just happy to be here.
I'm just happy to be breathing this air
sitting here.
Wake up every morning,
I thank god for a, just being around.
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