Dog chews off man's toe

Some weird things happen in the world. But even what may appear vicious could actually be good. Like this dog saving his master by chewing off his toe.

It is one of those news you’ll have to read more than once to fully grasp..

In short, a man wakes up from drunken stupor to find his dog with a blood moustache and himself without a previously infected toe. Rushed to the hospital by his wife, he learns he had Type 2 diabetes and the rest of his digit is amputated.

His owners credit the dog with saving his man’s life. Inexplicably, the man had been postponing going to the doctor and his wife, a registered nurse, did not think it was important or could not convince him.

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DETROIT—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.

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