Posted on 02/10/2011 6:59:10 PM PST by DogByte6RER
SAN DIEGO -- Two small dogs have been quarantined after one of them chewed a couple of toes off of their elderly owner early Thursday, investigators said.
Police received an emergency call just before 5:30 a.m. from the man's caretaker. The caller said he found the victim lying in bed amid blood-soaked sheets at their home in the 200 block of West California Street in Mission Hills. The caretaker then discovered that his roommate was missing three left toes and that one of the men's two small dogs had blood on its snout, SDPD spokeswoman Andra Brown said.
Paramedics took the man, who seemed confused about how he had suffered the injuries, to a hospital. The victim -- whose right leg and one of the toes on his left foot had been previously amputated -- suffers from neuropathy, a type of nerve damage that has left him with no feeling in his remaining foot, the roommate told police.
Police filed a bite report with San Diego County Animal Control. After speaking with the caretaker, Animal Control officers placed the two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels under quarantine at the house, department spokesman Dan DeSousa said. The dog's owners did not want the animals destroyed, so they are being monitored to see if either develops signs of rabies, DeSousa said.
DeSousa said he had never heard of a case where dogs had gnawed off someone's toes before, but he said fatal dog attacks are relatively common.
"Accidents happen all the time, and in most cases we'll never know why, because we can't talk to the dogs," DeSousa said.
Adult protective services caseworkers will look into the living arrangements at the home and decide whether an intervention is necessary, Brown said.
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Toes were numb?
Toes were NOM!
At least it wasn't a poodle's lips, now....
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I have 2 cavalliers. That picture looks just like my Stuart. I can’t imagine them ever biting me, let alone eating my toes.
Wrong, we have a friend whose estranged son died and whose body was undiscovered in his house for 10 days, his cats ate his body.
The pre-eminent FR dog-hater is heard from.
Are you Vick’s agent or som’n?
I’ve never owned a pit bull, and I do currently own a Cavalier, but I feel a need for some devil’s advocate:
If this had been about a pit bull...the comments would not have been about loving dogs attempting to remove rotting flesh, preening or whatever...it would have been “put that monster down ASAP”.
Anyway, my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is not a Blenheim, so my toes are safe tonight. :)
If you damn house cat weigh fifty pounds he would call you lunch. If you don’t think a dog will eat you, you have a small brain problem.
ohmygosh...someone I know???
LOL!
The parents yes. You were youngish when it happened so no need to tell you at the time.
I don’t have a cat. If you were able to read the English language you’d have seen that comment was made by another poster.
You just keep putting your two cents into all these dog threads, though. It just reveals to the world the true depths of your ignorance of canis domesticus.
ROFLOL, you stupid is as noted, but there was a whole lot of old folk bs in the tread.
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