Moral of the story?

[SoulsCollective]

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."

NO. THE DOG ATE YOUR TOE. The DOG ate your TOE. The moral of the story is you should GET A NEW DOG.

[noroger]

Depends from which side you look at it.
Made me laugh though

[WrigleyVillain]

Reuters:

NO. THE DOG ATE YOUR TOE. The DOG ate your TOE. The moral of the story is you should GET A NEW DOG.

Um dude it saved this morons life wtf are you talking about? Now whether the dog is to blame for getting in the way of what would have otherwise been a much-deserved Darwin Award is debatable.

Seriously, it's gross and a bit disturbing but also pretty awesome. Dogs can even detect cancer with their incredible sense of smell. And there's a cat in a hospital somewhere that goes and lays with patients right before they are about to die. The thing is like 40 and 0 on predicting imminent death. And apparently instead of finding the cat frightening or morbid most of the patients are comforted by it's sudden presence during their last moments.

[Judaeus Apella]

NO. THE DOG ATE YOUR TOE. The DOG ate your TOE. The moral of the story is you should GET A NEW DOG.

But seriously...

Um dude it saved this morons life wtf are you talking about? Now whether the dog is to blame for getting in the way of what would have otherwise been a much-deserved Darwin Award is debatable.

Seriously, it's gross and a bit disturbing but also pretty awesome. Dogs can even detect cancer with their incredible sense of smell. And there's a cat in a hospital somewhere that goes and lays with patients right before they are about to die. The thing is like 40 and 0 on predicting imminent death. And apparently instead of finding the cat frightening or morbid most of the patients are comforted by it's sudden presence during their last moments.

Cat's "Sixth Sense" Predicting Death?

[Speederlander]

Um dude it saved this morons life wtf are you talking about? Now whether the dog is to blame for getting in the way of what would have otherwise been a much-deserved Darwin Award is debatable.

Seriously, it's gross and a bit disturbing but also pretty awesome. Dogs can even detect cancer with their incredible sense of smell. And there's a cat in a hospital somewhere that goes and lays with patients right before they are about to die. The thing is like 40 and 0 on predicting imminent death. And apparently instead of finding the cat frightening or morbid most of the patients are comforted by it's sudden presence during their last moments.

Did the dog want to "save his life" by supernaturally realizing his master's toe was going to do him in? Or was the dog simply hungry because the drunk guy passed out with his toe falling off forgot to feed him and that smelled like a tasty decomposing meat popsicle? I would put my money on the hungry dog.

[STEvil]

I wouldnt, but i'd also not get rid of the dog for that.

[Judaeus Apella]

I probably would... that's just messed up that the dog would do that. He ate a part of his owners body! That's just so far past the line. Hell no. And how did this guy not bleed to death???

[aintz]

dog > cat is the moral of this story

[Vienna]

I probably would... that's just messed up that the dog would do that. He ate a part of his owners body! That's just so far past the line. Hell no. And how did this guy not bleed to death???

Because theres no major artery in the toe? Reason people "bleed out" so to speak is when they get cut, or shot, or stabbed, or whatever in an area near or at, a major artery. the further away, the longer it will take to bleed out, eventually getting to things like the extremities, where there just isn't enough flow to ever bleed out. for example, a paper cut or even a very bad scrape or deep cut won't bleed out because it heals faster than the flow of blood.

I don't know if its possible to bleed out from having your toe cut off and left unbandaged(if it heals fast enough), but even if it is, it would take a VERY LONG TIME

[n00b 0f l337]

Eat your pets before they eat you!

[Particle]

I don't like dogs, personally, but I'd have to say there's a chance he acted that way because of the odd circumstances. It wouldn't be the first instance of a dog helping his owner out in a time of need. Would it have comprehended "Hey, this toe is infected and about to kill the guy because he's an untreated diabetic."? Of course not. Doesn't mean it didn't have some idea of the thing needing to come off. Animals get wounded and have developed mechanisms to deal with it such as licking. Is this such a jump?

Inevitably, some of you are going to answer, "Yes". It was a rhetorical question. The correct answer is "no".

[Sn0wm@n]

[drteming]

I don't know if its possible to bleed out from having your toe cut off and left unbandaged(if it heals fast enough), but even if it is, it would take a VERY LONG TIME

One cannot "bleed out" from a digit that has been cut off or eaten off, unless there is an anticoagulant in the system.

[krogen]

One cannot "bleed out" from a digit that has been cut off or eaten off, unless there is an anticoagulant in the system.

To add to that, the toe was rotting, so there was little if any blood circulation in it.