Mouli immediately barked loudly to warn the owner. Hearing the barking, the dog’s owner, Mr. Nangelil Gangadharan and his wife Vimala, immediately woke up and ran outside, both were horrified to see a large cobra, more than 1.5m long, crawling towards the apartment. home.
However, Mr. Gangadharan said the dog Mouli stepped back as if to prevent the couple from stepping outside, before rushing in to attack the cobra. Gangadharan and his wife immediately called the police for help.
Although police were also present at the scene, no one was able to intervene to stop the fierce fight between the dog and the cobra that was taking place.
After a fight that lasted about 30 minutes, Mouli bit the snake to death and protected his two owners. However, Mouli also died just 5 minutes after the fight from the bites of the cobra.
Dog is man’s best friend, it is said. And dogs have proved this saying time and again.
A pet dog — Mouli — proved it too. Mouli, a Dash, spotted a cobra that was trying to enter his house in Perumbavur in Kerala’s Ernakulam district and decided to stop it. Nangelil Gangadharan, a retired government official, had adopted Mouli three years ago when he was just a month old. Gangadharan and his wife Vimala are the only residents of the house and he told Manorama News that Mouli, now three years old, has been guarding them for a long time now.
Waking up to Mouli barking in an unusual way, the couple tried to step out of the house to see what’s going on. But a barking Mouli stopped him from stepping out and ran back to take the cobra he had spotted head on.
After a furious battle that went on for more than half-an-hour, Mouli killed the poisonous cobra. Police patrolling in the area reached the spot too, but neither police nor Mouli’s humans could intervene or stop his fight with the snake.