Jerry Douthett, a 47-year-old man from Rockford, Michigan, is alive and well today. Yes, he’s missing a toe, but the rest of him is intact and relatively healthy, and it’s all thanks to his dog. Jerry and his wife went out for a night on the town, and Jerry had six or seven beers and a couple of giant margaritas before coming home and passing out in bed. When he woke up, his toe was gnawed off by his Jack Russell terrier, Kiko. As it turns out, the dog that gnawed off his toe saved Jerry’s life.
“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.” Douhett’s wife Rosee rushed him to the hospital, where doctors made an unusual discovery. The toe that Kiko gnawed off was infected; because the dog chewed off Jerry’s infected toe and stopped at the healthy part of the meat, Jerry escaped sickness and death. Talk about a powerful nose!
“The moral of the story is that the dog saved my life, because otherwise I never would have gone in to see a doctor.” Good thing it was a Jack and not Giant George, the world’s largest dog, otherwise Jerry might have lost his whole foot to canine teeth.
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