'My toe's gone, my toe's gone!'"

by espíritu del lago January 18th 2011, 4:14 am

What happens when you combine a festering toe wound, a doctor-averse person, a dog and a lot of alcohol. Well, I guess you get Jerry Douthett and his dog Kiko, a Jack Russel who is being called a "lifesaver" for gnawing off Jerry's infected toe.

You will have to scroll down to read this story, the title is: DOG AS SCALPEL...MAYBE EFFECTIVE BUT NOT RECOMMENDED. WOW! Shocked

This is a great blog for animal lovers of all types of animals.

Worms & Germs Blog is an educational website coordinated by Drs. Scott Weese and Maureen Anderson of the Ontario Veterinary College's Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses. Recommend that this deserves a bookmark.

http://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/articles/animals/dogs/

by espíritu del lago January 18th 2011, 4:24 am

There is also a really good article on the raw dog food debate. If you feed raw meat you should read this! It is 2-4 articles down from the toe story. Here is one fact you may not know:

Study investigating therapy dogs in Ontario and Alberta. Raw-fed dogs were 23 times as likely to be shedding Salmonella and 17 times as likely to be shedding multidrug resistant E. coli.

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