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sciguyajAug 3, 2010
Animals are much smarter than we give them credit for!
commonwealthAug 4, 2010
I kinda feel like the dog just ate his infected toe because it smelled funky. My dog will eat anything that is horrible and disgusting; cat s**t, vomit, decomposing animals, etc. so an infected toe sounds like a delectable treat that he would enjoy.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
Commonwealth has it spot on. I love my cats as much as any good pet owner, however, we give animals way too much credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
I don't know man. My bichpoo (poodle/bich frise mix) is smart as hell, but my poodlewawa (poodle/chihuaha mix) is a stupid little f**ker...
omicronnineAug 5, 2010
I'm with Commonwealth. The dog wouldn't normally go at his "pack leader", and he knows what his pack leader smells like, but the toe smelled different. To him, the toe was NOT part of his pack leader or other member of his pack, so that made it fair game. There may also be an instinct to chew away diseased tissue at work as well, but I doubt it was much more then that.
zephikAug 5, 2010
I'm sure it's more instinctual than a matter of an animal's intellect.
balancingactAug 3, 2010
Whilst reading the description, my mind was racing ahead and predicting that the story was going to be about the dog's owner having gangrene........but i was wrong.
Apparently, dog's are excellent at sniffing out diseases, and there has been some research into dog's being able to sniff out cancer years before any symptoms show up.
eastwood24Aug 3, 2010
He must have been some kind of passed out to not be awoken by a dog chewing on his big toe.
razorfiendAug 4, 2010
Actually people with chronic longterm diabetes tend to suffer from a condition known as peripheral diabetic neuropathy (due to vascular problems). Chances are he couldn't feel his toes at all and this is what most likely led to the initial injury/infection. Many diabetics only realize that they've been injured when their toes go gangrenous which can be deadly.
docbellsAug 4, 2010
The guy is a f**ktard - you just don't all the sudden have that type of nueropathy - he passed out cold - I am really sure he takes good care of himself - and if his wife was a nurse - then she sucks.
Cool dog though...
tekdemonAug 5, 2010
To get diabetes of this level at a fairly young age like that you have to be pretty impressively negligent of your health. So it's likely that drinking until you're insanely passed out was a regular occurrence for this guy. Both heavy drinking and diabetes can and probably did damage this guy's nerves, so while a normal person would wake up screaming if their dog tried to bite their toe off, the nerves in his feet are probably so damaged from both diabetic neuropathy and alcoholic neuropathy that it just wasn't that painful.
https://health.google.com/health/ref/Diabetic+neuropathy
https://health.google.com/health/ref/Alcoholic+neuropathy
When you combine two things that trash your nerves, particularly those in your feet, you get to have your dog bite your toe off without realizing it. You also get to stumble around for the rest of your life injuring your feet until they basically have to amputate your entire lower leg since the nerve damage is usually permanent, and alcoholics who don't bother to go see the doctor until their toe gets chewed off by their dog don't usually suddenly up and quit drinking and start eating perfectly healthy. So this dude will probably end up having a stroke or a heart attack within 10 years, then die of either heart failure or some humongous stroke.
I'm kinda shocked that his wife is an RN though.
jeffh4Aug 3, 2010
....and then the dog charged him $25,000 for the 4 minute surgery and forced the owner to sign a liability waiver.
"Dr. Mutt" went on to teach surgery at Johns Hopkins.
janincoAug 3, 2010
LOL
solaniisrexAug 4, 2010
It's the spinoff of Doogie Howser I always wanted.
bosskeyAug 4, 2010
Doggie Bowser
brucealmightyAug 3, 2010
I bet that's the last time he forgets to feed his dog before he starts putting down those margaritas.....
werfwerAug 3, 2010
good thing he didn't have a heart murmur.
unfriendlyfireAug 3, 2010
Or an STD
werfwerAug 3, 2010
post of the day
misslindadeeAug 3, 2010
eeewww THAT would have been Nasty!
voodoodonutAug 3, 2010
That dog deserves the Wilford Brimley Diebeetus Awareness Award.
Carl Malone still say it should be call live beetees instead...
PhreeedomAug 3, 2010
BTW...Don't sleep near this dog if you have herpes
misslindadeeAug 3, 2010
Tawdry thought!
goldyoshiAug 4, 2010
Shut the f**k up!
misslindadeeAug 3, 2010
he is a Moron! How can you NOT know you have an infection in your toe? and WHY would anyone drink alcohol that had high blood sugar? it IS sugar!
tyg10Aug 4, 2010
"How can you NOT know you have an infection in your toe?"
It's called denial....major, big time, denial.
jayrokAug 4, 2010
I'd like to know which animal amputated the frontal lobe.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
My sister used to work as a county hospital and I can tell you that so many people don't take diabetes seriously until it's too late.
solaniisrexAug 4, 2010
That's part of what makes diabetes dangerous. It affects the nerves in a way that you don't feel pain from the infection, as well as slowing down the healing process so that infections can get bad enough that amputation is required.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic_neuropathy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic_foot
As for drinking when you already got high blood sugar. I once knew a guy who would stop by the liqour store on the way home from dialysis. People are stupid.
unterdenlindenAug 5, 2010
How tawdry!
7king7kingAug 4, 2010
is the dog ok?
firecellAug 4, 2010
That sounds pretty ruff. I'm surprised he didn't shoot straight through the woof!
jayrokAug 4, 2010
Alpo: now in diabetes flavor.
commonwealthAug 4, 2010
Ur toe had an infection, but I eated it.
stranceAug 4, 2010
Or possibly the diabetes messed up the nerves in his toe.
calskiiAug 4, 2010
Toetoe, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
sub2k1Aug 4, 2010
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acegidAug 4, 2010
I think the dog just wanted a free lunch.
doncarajoAug 4, 2010
Hmmm. What a load of s**t. The first line of treatment for a diabetic foot infection is antibiotics, not amputation. If it was that gangrenous that it needed to come off, his wife, the nurse, should have been able to tell. He should have been able to tell as well as he would have been quite sick. The dog sounds like he needs to be put down.
guyincognitooAug 4, 2010
Did you miss the part where the dog ate the toe?
crossmrAug 4, 2010
Where is the quote from anyone qualified saying the dog "may" have saved his life?
solaniisrexAug 4, 2010
A hundred years ago John Bogart said "When a dog bites a man, that is not news."
Times have changed...
d4rthv4derAug 4, 2010
Did he died?
jumbotoAug 4, 2010
Make this awesome post about this awesome dog a top digg. f**kin Amazing.
rbean44Aug 4, 2010
I have type 2 diabetes and last summer I had a staph infection in one of my toes. At first the toe just felt like it was on fire when I walked on it. It also got a little black-and-blue. My diabetes was also under control. I went to the doctor and he told me to just to keep an eye on it and that it would probably go away. It did, but a month later it came back. This time it was worse and a white abcess called a paronycia formed around my nail. Along with this, my blood sugars shot up to ~360. This put me in a state of diabetic ketoacidosis; google it, it's bad. Two surgeries, antibiotics and tons of insulin later, my toe is thankfully OK. My blood sugars never returned to normal without lots of medication and insulin.
This guy may have had low level diabetes, then gotten the infection which didn't progress far enough for a doctor to care. I'm willing to bet, though, that had the dog not done what he did, this guy could have been much worse off.
shortypeopleAug 4, 2010
Drinking alcohol with diabetes.....................dude's got more problems than the toe.
rbean44Aug 4, 2010
Alcohol actually lowers blood sugar, though the carbs in most alchoholic beverages along with the alcohol makes your blood sugar go up and down like a rollercoaster. It can be safe to have a drink here and there. If you are on glucophage, it's really bad to drink if you have imparied kidney function or are dehydrated.
hantuduppyAug 4, 2010
...or his wife got fed up with him not going to hospital for his infected toe and decides to knock him out and cut it off herself. Then she blames it on the dog.
imkidredAug 4, 2010
A cat would have been licking his ass on top of the refrigerator. Good thing he had a dog.
hollowexAug 4, 2010
How would a cat get the guy on top of the refrigerator?
syntheticbadgerAug 4, 2010
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