"Dog bites . . . Wait, man bites . . . Wait, I need a minute to work this one out"

[theweaselking]

Dog eats Rockford man's big toe, saves his life

via interactiveleaf, headline and all.

Comments

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

I had a pitbull pup gnaw off part of my toe under a table when i wasn't looking (I am a paraplegic and didn't feel it). Apparently she got started on a scab from a scuffed toe and didn't know when to stop.

As soon as i saw what she'd done i killed that puppy. Not because i was upset over the loss of toe meat, but because I wasn't at all comfortable with having a dog that liked the taste of human.

I referenced this incident in an Edible Dirt cartoon. Sorry, too late to look it up for the linkage, but the caption is "Enjoying that bone, eh boy?"

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

http://eddirt.frozenreality.co.uk/index.php?id=257

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

related: http://eddirt.frozenreality.co.uk/index.php?id=135 and http://eddirt.frozenreality.co.uk/index.php?id=118

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

thank you very much.

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

no problem. did you really kill the puppy though? i retold the tale to some friends and they were freaking out over it.

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

no comment.

[maelorin]

everyone focuses on the dog.

but the human is near too stupid to live. but for the dog eating his toe he'd have died of his own stupidity.

*sigh*

gene pool ...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hey, if losing a toe means he learned a valuable lesson, everyone wins.

[maelorin]

perhaps. maybe for *everyone else* who might be given the push to go *do* something before this kind of thing happens to them.

but if it takes your dog chewing off your going-gangrenous toe to catch on that diabetes ought not be ignored - especially when your own brother died of diabetes-related complications ... you'd think *that* would get you in sooner ... but no, denial wins the day ... *headdesk*