Gulp. Stray dog taken in by paralyzed man eats new owner's testicle, dog gets euthanized

[Horse with no Name]

I just really have nothing to say....


http://www.12newsnow.com/story/22981419/stray-dog-taken-in-by-paralyzed-man-eats-new-owners-testicle-dog-gets-euthanized

TRUMANN, AR (KAIT) -- A Trumann man awoke Monday morning to find his dog eating one of his testicles.

The man, who has not been identified, is paralyzed and told police he has "no feeling from the waist down."

Around 7:45 a.m. Monday he was awakened by a "burning pain" in his mid-section, according to the initial police report.

The 39-year-old man told police he sleeps in the nude and noticed the dog was between his legs.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. There really are some stories I'm better off not knowing.

[Horse with no Name]

2. I know. You really can't "unread" this. It's just nuts!

Sorry...I couldn't resist.

[CitizenLeft]

8. oh no you didn't

:p

[Aerows]

3. My life

has definitely not been enriched by hearing this particular one.

[Initech]

17. Seriously!!!!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. agreed

[petronius]

4. I think I might have preferred a medical center other than "St. Bernards"

What a horrible freaking story...

[bunnies]

5. Holy shit! We have a "small, white, fluffy dog"!

Wait till bunnies-mr sees this.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Better play "hide the weinie"

[bunnies]

12. Yep.

No more bones for her either. Squeaky balls? They're out too. Cant be too safe with such things.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. I hate it when that happens. nt

[hlthe2b]

9. There is a very small chance that the dog could have detected something...

including testicular cancer or other. While admittedly it is a rare possibility, dogs have been known to try to remove the "infection" so-to-speak.

I say this only to hope they actually do some pathological studies or at least an exam, if possible on the damaged testicle or remaining.

[Horse with no Name]

13. I didn't know that

very interesting.

[ms liberty]

25. I had a Plotthound who chewed a tumor off of my GSD ...

It had been there a while and had been non-cancerous; it hadn't grown or appeared unusual until one day she chewed it off. I suspect that it had become cancerous; we took her to the vet and they surgically cleaned it up, but she passed away a few weeks later. She was nearly 14 at that time (the GSD). Later, my Plotthound chewed two growths off her own body; we had to have her put to sleep a few weeks after the second surgery to remove a tumor on her back that had a growth line nearly down to her spine. It wasn't visible or noticeable by touch...until she ripped her skin off and tried to chew it out. She didn't get better after the surgery and she was in pain so we couldn't put her through any more of that. She was about 13 at that time. I think she was one of those dogs that could smell the cancer.

[customerserviceguy]

27. Good thing the guy didn't have colon cancer

Sometimes, a sniff is just a sniff...

[Orrex]

30. Or a brain tumor

[hlthe2b]

34. "Doctor dogs" being trained to sniff out ovarian cancer

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57553262/doctor-dogs-being-trained-to-sniff-out-ovarian-cancer/


Schatzi is a rescue dog being trained to sniff ovarian cancer on a person's breath.
/ KCBS

One of the dogs, Schatzi, was about to be put down before she was enrolled in the study. Now, Zaphiris said the dog is one of the few who has never missed a cancer sample.

This new research is the first and only federally-funded study on using exhaled breath as a diagnostic tool for ovarian cancer, KCBS reported.

However, this isn't the first study that used dogs to detect cancer. In 2005, 60 Minutes looked at a study in England that was training dogs to sniff out bladder cancer using urine samples. On average, the dogs were 41 percent accurate, which is statistically significant according to Dr. Carolyn Willis, a research dermatologist who worked on the study.

Researchers had become discouraged when the dogs seemed to get held up on one "healthy" sample time and time again. They decided to double-check the diagnosis. It turned out that that person had kidney and bladder cancer that the lab had missed.

Other studies to look at dogs' cancer-sniffing abilities include one at the Schillerhoehe Hospital in Germany, which used dogs to smell out lung cancer using a person's breath. The dogs were able to accurately detect lung cancer in 71 percent of the cases and tell if a person was healthy in 93 percent of cases.

Another study in Japan showed that dogs could smell colorectal cancer in a sample of fecal matter 98 percent of the time.

Can dogs sniff out cancer?
Sniff out lung cancer? Study says dogs can do it
Colorectal cancer no match for tumor-sniffing dog?

Zaphiris worked on a previous cancer detection project using in 2003. She claimed her dogs were 98 to 99 percent.

Michael McCulloch, research partner on the current ovarian cancer study and director of the Pine Street Foundation, said to KCBS that breath has been used to detect diseases for centuries. Ideally, he hopes that dog detection can become a non-invasive way to diagnose cancer earlier than screenings or blood tests might.

[darkangel218]

10. Wtf???!?

[Marrah_G]

11. no words........

[Bonx]

14. Story is awkwardly written.

I'm guessing the paralysis was the reason the dog got an easy nut sangwich, not the result of it.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. That is nuts. nt

[NewThinkingChance40]

16. That's what he gets for falling asleep with the peanut butter between his legs :)

[REP]

18. Gee. Wonder why that dog was a stray.

[Horse with no Name]

20. Yeah...you thought Cujo was bad.m/t

[customerserviceguy]

21. What a bizarre last meal

At least the dog had a ball...

[PD Turk]

22. dammit man

when I opened this thread I told myself it was serious business and I would neither post nor laugh at any snark at this poor man's expense. I made it almost all the way through with a straight face, and then I read this one...

[pinboy3niner]

23. You need some inspirational music to restore you to a properly respectful state of mind...

[PD Turk]

24. You guys kill me!

[customerserviceguy]

28. Turk, you're welcome

And they say only "man bites dog" is news...

[dhol82]

26. geeze

anybody actually question why the dog did this?

did the guy feed the dog? did he bathe? wtf was going on for the 'fluffy' to do this?

there are many questions that have not been addressed.

seriously doubt that the dog became a stray because of human flesh munching.

[Horse with no Name]

29. I know

I wondered some of this myself...

[flvegan]

31. Wow. Dead dog, suffering human. Anyone coined "DoUchebaggER" yet?

It's a deserved term based on a response or two.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. No good deed goes unpunished, apparently.

and then there's this: "The victim was taken to St. Bernards Regional Medical Center" ... come on, really?

[Inkfreak]

35. HAHAHAH! Nice catch there. (nt)

[uppityperson]

33. "Gulp" indeed.

Poor guy and poor dog

[L0oniX]

36. Dogs name was Bobbit or Lorena?

[pinboy3niner]

37. Hollywood expresses sympathies, releases new movie: "CUJONES!"