What I have to look forward to

[Mikey]

I guess I'm going to have to get used to sleeping with shoes on.

[Tsukiyumi]

Wow, that's disturbing.

Glad I have outdoor dogs.

[Mikey]

My wife and I have always disagreed; I've always said that my dog would take a bite out of my corpse if he found me dead. Now, I'm just hoping he waits that long.

[Reliant121]

That's why I don't sleep with the dogs in my room. I couldn't do outdoor dogs, mainly because one of our dogs is very small and quite thinly furred so it would be rather cold, but because...I feel bad. But, thats kinda creepy.

[stitch626]

Really its not that unusual or unexpected. It was just trying to help.

[Mikey]

Yeah, I don't blame the dog for acting like a dog.

[Deepcrush]

My dog prefers pizza and jerky so I'm good... plus she's to old/fat/lazy to go after anything.

[Mikey]

My dog likes all sorts of stuff, but he's still a dog. Even when I think he's just gotten too old to go after anything, he comes awfully close to nabbing some rabbit or squirrel that has the temerity to enter his yard.

[Deepcrush]

The only rabbits or squirrels that get caught at our house anymore are the ones I shoot for target practice.

[Tsukiyumi]

I've heard rabbit is pretty good.

[Deepcrush]

Not this time of year.

[Mikey]

You have to be really careful cooking them, or they end up pretty tough.

[McAvoy]

Believe or not this just happened before new Years last year.

Family Dog Chews Off 10-Year-Old Girl’s Toes

December 30, 2010 2:12 PM

From Yasmin Rammohan

CRETE TWP., Ill. (STMW) – Authorities investigated a “bizarre” incident last week in which a 10-year-old girl’s toes were chewed off by the family dog while she slept in their south suburban home.

Around 7 a.m. on Dec. 22, the girl yelled that her foot was bleeding when her mother came into her room to wake her up for school, the Joliet Herald-News is reporting. The woman saw all of the toes were missing from the girl’s left foot and administered first aid while her husband called paramedics.

Crete firefighters and Will County Sheriff’s deputies responded and the victim was transported to St. Margaret Mercy Hospital in Dyer, Ind. According to reports, the girl suffers from spina bifida, which “causes numbness in her lower extremities (and she) has basically no sensation beneath the waist.”

She has also had a sore on her left foot for more than a year that will not heal, despite being examined by doctors and specialists.

The girl’s father told police nothing was out of the ordinary and the girl’s foot was intact when she went to bed around 9 p.m. the night before. The family’s 2-year-old black Labrador retriever has always slept at the foot of the girl’s bed.

Crete firefighters had the 44-year-old man check the dog’s mouth and muzzle, but did not find any trace of blood.

The family said the dog has never been aggressive toward the girl or other people, and deputies noted the animal “showed no aggression” toward them while they were in the house.

A Will County Animal Control Center officer examined the dog. On Tuesday, they reported the animal had been brought in for a 10-day observation since records showed it was overdue for vaccinations.

Animal Control “determined that the dog was acting true to its nature by removing the wound from the victim as it would in the wild” and the incident was not a violation.

The dog was described as non-threatening and will not be put down.

The Department of Children and Family Services was also notified to document the incident, but told sheriff’s police they did not plan to investigate.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2010/12/30/ ... irls-toes/

[Mikey]

Yeah, that incident was mentioned in the prior article. Their instincts are incredible; today, my dog had a acute bout of the trots (probably due to something he chewed on during our walk in the salt marsh yesterday) - however, he had the foresight and decency to get into the bathtub first.

[McAvoy]

I skimmed through it and realized I read something similar.

I am sure all of us had/has dogs that will try to lick a wound for you. It's more or less the same thing.