Friday, August 20, 2010

Back from the Philippines

Just got back from Manila and Cebu. For more photos please go to http://jadedtravels.blogspot.com/
Boogie is the bomb sniffing dog at the Marriott Cebu.Boogie means handsome
Snoopy the bomb sniffer at Shangrila Manila.He is really friendly

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Gathering at Singapore Badminton hall

Tammy begging for food
Close up of emma
Family potrait:From left- Ozzy, Rocky, Tessie and Emma

Princess was waiting anxiously for her owner at the door
Rocky and Princess
Not all the dogs liked to eat the jelly

Monday, August 9, 2010

National Day Celebrations at Marina Bay Sands Skypark

View at the Skypark
The new Botanical Gardens at the Bay is still under construction
The paratroopers from the Army trying to land at the Padang

National Day Celebrations


Rocky the patriotic dog waving the Singapore flag

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Dog chews off Michigan man's toe, saves his life

Reuters - Thursday, August 5

DETROIT - A Michigan man credited his dog with saving his life by chewing off his diseased big toe as he lay passed out in a drunken stupor.

Jerry Douthett, 48, woke up on a Saturday night in late July in his Rockford, Michigan home to find his Jack Russell Terrier, Kiko, had gnawed off his right big toe.

"The dog always lays with me on the bed," said Douthett. "That night, I woke up and looked down at my foot, and it was wet. When I looked it was blood, and there was the dog looking at me with a blood mustache."

Douthett's wife, Rosee, rushed him to a hospital where doctors found he was suffering from Type 2 diabetes. His toe was badly infected and surgeons amputated the remainder of the digit.

Douthett's wife, a registered nurse, had been urging him for weeks to have his infected toe examined by a doctor.

On the night Kiko ate his toe, Douthett said he had been out with his wife and drank about "six or seven beers" and a pair of giant margaritas "big enough to put goldfish in."

"I was self-medicating at this point," he said. "The moral of the story is that the dog saved my life, because otherwise I never would have gone in to see a doctor."

The couple said they were amazed that Kiko appeared to know Douthett had an infection that needed treatment.

"He kind of chewed off the infected part and stopped at the good bone," said Rosee. "We joked that we shouldn't have had to pay the co-pay because he did half the job by chewing off half of the toe."