Despite a couple of rounds of Cowboy Pinball with a mule named Deke, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for mules. While I’ve had some good horses over the years, I’ve never owned a mule. This is the kind of mule I want, a true bad ass. I’ve had two horses in my life that were fairly hard on dogs, but nothing quite this extreme. Extreme enough though, that this doesn’t seem outside the realm of possibility.

As the lion approached the dogs the mule snatched him up by the tail and started whirling him around. Banging its head on the ground on every pass.

I had a quarter horse that would grab a dog, take a half turn and throw, but never the whirling tactic. Since I’ve seen that quarter horse throw a hundred five pound dog well over twenty feet uphill, I have no doubt of the devastating effect this mule would have had. Impressive mule.