Dog saves owner from lethal infection, and more

last updated 8 January 2015

Dog saves owner from lethal infection

A Michigan man credits his dog with saving his life by chewing off his infected toe. Jerry Douthett, 48, says he passed out drunk and woke to find his toe gone and Kiko, a Jack Russell terrier, “looking at me with a blood mustache.” Douthett’s wife rushed him to the emergency room, where doctors diagnosed him with diabetes and a potentially lethal infection in what was left of his toe. Kiko “kind of chewed off the infected part and stopped at the good bone,” said Douthett. “The dog saved my life.”

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