Dog Saves His Owner’s Life by Chewing Off His Toe
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.
You or I would probably be finding a new home (or worse) for our dog if it chewed off a toe while we slept. But, Jerry Douthett is actually obliged to his Jack Russell Terrier, Kiko, for chewing his toe off.
by 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.
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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