Dog chews off Michigan man's toe, saves his life

[Racerbvd]

WTF?????

Dog chews off Michigan man's toe, saves his life

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DETROIT | Wed Aug 4, 2010 4:47pm EDT

DETROIT (Reuters) - A Michigan man credited his dog with saving his life by chewing off his diseased big toe as he lay passed out in a drunken stupor.

Jerry Douthett, 48, woke up on a Saturday night in late July in his Rockford, Michigan home to find his Jack Russell Terrier, Kiko, had gnawed off his right big toe.

"The dog always lays with me on the bed," said Douthett. "That night, I woke up and looked down at my foot, and it was wet. When I looked it was blood, and there was the dog looking at me with a blood mustache."

Douthett's wife, Rosee, rushed him to a hospital where doctors found he was suffering from Type 2 diabetes. His toe was badly infected and surgeons amputated the remainder of the digit.

Douthett's wife, a registered nurse, had been urging him for weeks to have his infected toe examined by a doctor.

On the night Kiko ate his toe, Douthett said he had been out with his wife and drank about "six or seven beers" and a pair of giant margaritas "big enough to put goldfish in."

"I was self-medicating at this point," he said. "The moral of the story is that the dog saved my life, because otherwise I never would have gone in to see a doctor."

The couple said they were amazed that Kiko appeared to know Douthett had an infection that needed treatment.

"He kind of chewed off the infected part and stopped at the good bone," said Rosee. "We joked that we shouldn't have had to pay the co-pay because he did half the job by chewing off half of the toe."

Dog chews off Michigan man's toe, saves his life | Reuters

[crustychief]

Kiko must not have been fed that day. How drunk do you have to be to not wake up to the first or second bite? I am retired Navy and have a lot of experience in being pretty drunk in my youth, but DAMN!

[Zeke]

That much alcohol and diabetes don't go hand in hand. These people must be rather ignorant. Sounds like the dog is the smartest member of the family.

[Tobra]

Guy is neuropathic, can not feel his feet, plus he is a booze jockey idiot. Dog was just going for the rottne meat, had a parrot eat a patient's toe off about 10 years ago.

[kach22i]

What's for dinner?
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[M.D. Holloway]

Must have been some good Margaritas! But wife a nurse wife like that...sheeet.


Note to Self: Feed our Rat Terrier before bedtime...