Toe-Eating Dog Soon to Be Available for Adoption
Do you need some added companionship around the house? Are you an animal lover? And most important, do you have or plan to have an abundance of dead tissue on your body, like, say, a few dead and infected toes? Well, the Saving Grace Pet Adoption Center in Roseburg, Ore., has just the dog for you!
His name is Cosmo. He's a Shiba Inu. And, as we told you about last week, he recently ate half his owner's foot.
Now, for some reason, the owner, James Little, no longer wants the dog.
Seattle Weekly talked with Saving Grace Pet Adoption Center Director Wendy Kang, who said the rambunctious pup isn't quite available yet, since he has to remain quarantined for 10 days after eating human flesh. But by this time next week, he could be munching the toes off all your gangrenous friends.
Kang has nothing but the most glowing endorsements for little Cosmo. "[He] is a bit aloof, but overall he's a friendly dog, I suppose," she says.
According to the American Kennel Club, the Shiba Inu ranges from 17 to 23 pounds and was originally bred for hunting small game, boar, and bear in Japanese forests (no, really, it says they hunted freaking bears).
Little, a diabetic man who has no feeling in his feet, didn't even realize that little Cosmo was feasting on his phalanges until he woke up sans three toes and half his foot. The phenomenon isn't unique to Cosmo--several other cases of dogs eating infected or dead tissue from their masters have been reported.
In one case, a dog's eating of his drunk and passed-out owner's toe is credited with saving the man's life, because the eaten toe alerted doctors to the man having deadly type-II diabetes.
So little Cosmo isn't necessarily a bloodthirsty zombie dog--he just cares a lot about his master's hygiene.
Write Comment
Email to Friend
Print Article
