Jerry Douthett, of Rockford Michigan, is a 48-year-old musician. He passed out after a night of drinking. Jerry woke up from his drunken stupor to find Kiko beside him and the bottom of the bed soaked with blood. It wasn’t long before he realized that his toe was missing. Jerry’s wife, a registered nurse, says that she heard her husband screaming that his toe was gone. She rushed him to Spectrum Health Blodgett Campus, where doctors discovered that a missing toe was the least of Jerry’s problems.
The attending doctor discovered that Jerry had a serious bone infection (not related to the toe being chewed off.) Jerry had a dangerously high blood glucose level of 560. The remaining portion of the toe had to be amputated, but if not for Kiko chewing off Jerry’s toe, he could have died from either the undiagnosed diabetes and/or the bone infection.
Jerry told the Grand Rapids Press that he had known something was not just right with his foot for some time. He says that he had noticed that his toe smelled bad and that when he would visit friends with dogs, they too would persistently sniff his foot. Yet, he resisted seeking care.
Dogs have substantially greater amounts of olfactory receptors in their nose, around 220 million. Humans only have about 50 million. There are vast studies proving beyond a doubt that dogs have the ability to sniff out cancers…especially when trained to do so. Studies have confirmed that dogs can sniff out skin cancer melanomas by just sniffing the skin, prostate cancer by sniffing urine, lung cancer by sniffing breath, etc.. Here, an article suggesting a dog’s nose can detect tiny changes that occur when a person is about to have a hypoglycemic attack. A dogs nose is used in medicine for every thing from sniffing out peanuts in food for those with severe allergies to alerting oncoming seizures. The canine nose is truly a remarkable thing.
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On August 5, 2010 at 2:30 am
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On August 5, 2010 at 2:55 am
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On August 5, 2010 at 3:01 am
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On August 5, 2010 at 4:07 am
Thumb up for these brave dogs! They save their owner’s life.
Phill Senters
On August 5, 2010 at 7:48 am
I’m amazed the guy slept while the dog chewed off his toe!! but even so, It was a good thing he did.
Neva Flores
On August 5, 2010 at 8:24 am
Wow, quite a story………..
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On August 5, 2010 at 8:48 am
Great title. The title is really the first thing that viewers see. Nice.
Tashanzi
On August 5, 2010 at 9:16 am
Wow…amazing!
Brenda Nelson
On August 5, 2010 at 10:33 am
I just read about this on Yahoo News.. weird.
Ehsanji
On August 5, 2010 at 10:48 am
That’s very interesting! The dogs are loyal, though this article has some humorous side. Imagine the dog chewing on owner’s toe. That’s funny
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On August 5, 2010 at 11:51 am
This was incredible and a great read!
I’ve heard about dogs reacting to cancerous growths in their master’s bodies also and they do react. What a wonderful friend we have in our dog!
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Marly
On August 5, 2010 at 1:35 pm
This is amazing. Dogs are good to have around sometimes. Very smart they are.
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On August 6, 2010 at 12:29 am
Its Wonderful, Dog is always obedient to owner.
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On August 6, 2010 at 11:33 am
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On August 6, 2010 at 1:14 pm
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On August 6, 2010 at 4:34 pm
that’s pretty crazy!
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On August 6, 2010 at 5:56 pm
nice article
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On August 6, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Wow. Incredible and quite quite odd!
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On August 6, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Very Interesting!
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On August 6, 2010 at 11:17 pm
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On August 6, 2010 at 11:28 pm
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On August 7, 2010 at 10:18 am
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On August 7, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Whoa – gross, yet interesting!
But I would not have a dog bite my toe off if it has gangrene…
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On August 7, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Wow!! The title was extremely catchy. The article was very interesting too. Good work.
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On August 7, 2010 at 11:13 pm
dude mustve been pissed at first when he realised his own dog chewed off his toe. ouch
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On August 8, 2010 at 4:45 am
Interesting! I can’t imagine what I myself would do when I found out that my lovely dog had done this to me…I must have asked the dog, “I have raised you since you was young, but now this is what you did to repay my love?”
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On August 8, 2010 at 6:39 am
I heard of animals being able to sniff out stuff like cancer.
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On August 8, 2010 at 8:07 am
that dog is amazing… I mean, who would have known that something good would come out of having that person’s toe chewed off! great article…I enjoyed reading it thanks!
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On August 8, 2010 at 11:51 am
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On August 9, 2010 at 2:56 am
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On August 9, 2010 at 7:24 am
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On August 9, 2010 at 9:03 am
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On August 10, 2010 at 9:44 am
“Indeed Pet are real friend of Human”
Yes, but humans are not.
Animals save our life, make us smile everyday and this is how we demonstrate our gratitude: the european parliament is about to approve a law about the experiments on animal.
I wrote a little article here, and I’m trying to help an italian site to collect signs, we’ve reached 20,000 signs in 10 days, but still it seems that the law is going to be approved. ._.
cheers
On August 11, 2010 at 4:11 am
Is the dog still fine. Just curious. The owner will thank DOG for chewing his toe.
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On August 11, 2010 at 7:28 am
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On August 11, 2010 at 8:27 am
Surely this is a blessing in disguise. The owner is lucky to have such a faithful dog.
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On August 12, 2010 at 7:07 am
The next time I’m not feeling too good, I’m going to rush rush to the nearest kennel. LOL
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