Bulldog saves owner’s leg by eating his toe

A bulldog puppy who chewed his owner’s toe to the bone may have saved his leg, reported Wales Online. David Lindsay was taking a nap on his sofa when he woke up to find that his seven-month-old puppy had been nibbling on his foot, so much so that his toe had been fractured and was covered in blood. When he was taken to hospital, he discovered that he had been unable to feel the chewing because he had blocked arteries in both legs. He might have lost both legs unless the problem was identified, he was told by medics. “You’ve got to laugh about it,” said Lindsay. “He’s done me a favour by chewing my toe.”

Bear breaks into car and necks 69 cans of drink

A thirsty bear broke into a car in British Columbia and necked 69 cans of fizzy drinks. Sharon Rosel said that after her dog woke her up in the early hours, she looked outside to see a bear had shattered one of her car windows and was helping itself to the cans of soda she had purchased for her business. “He was drinking massive amounts of soda,” Rosel told CBC News. Observing the mess made of her car, she said: “Of course, white leather interior goes really good with orange Crush.”

US says alien mothership may have sent probes to Earth

A Pentagon official has speculated that recent sightings in US airspace could actually be alien probes from a mothership sent to study Earth. In a new academic paper, Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, claimed that the objects, which appear to defy all physics, could be “probes” from an extra-terrestrial “parent craft”. The development suggests that the Pentagon is open to scientific debate of the origins of UFOs, said Politico.

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