Originally Posted by Dave Mustaine

"He kicked my dog. I was selling pot. When I would go play in concert, people knew that my pot was sitting in my apartment just saying, 'Go ahead and keep me company.' So I was broken in on. People stole everything that I had; all my stash. And I figured, screw this. I'm gonna get some dogs to stay in the apartment when I leave.

"So I got two dogs and I took one of them up to a rehearsal one time and she put her paws up on Ron's (bassist McGovney) car. And James kicked it right in the side. I was like, 'What did you do? It's a dog, it's what they do. You don't kick animals.'

"So we went into the house, and we started arguing some more. And I ended up punching him in the face and I think that was the root of why I lost my job."