Yeah, and it doen’t take all that much to make a BIG puddle.
I’m just suggesting one way to be sure.
No mention of wounds on the dogs, if their master had been attacked by another animal, I would expect them to have fought it and been slashed or bitten in the fray.
Mountain lions and black bears will generally just take off when faced with large barking dogs.
Neither animal really wants to fight them, unless cornered.