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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.
一名密西根男子認為他的狗在他酩酊大醉而昏睡之際，嚼掉他有病的大腳趾頭，而救了他一命。
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.
48歲的傑瑞．杜塞特於7月底的一個星期六晚間，在密西根洛克佛德的家裡醒來時，發現他的傑克羅素梗犬「基柯」已啃下他的右大腳趾。
"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."
「這條狗向來與我同睡床上，」杜塞特說。「那晚，我醒來往下看我的腳，腳溼溼的。我定睛一看是血，而狗狗望著我瞧，嘴毛則沾有血。」
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.
杜塞特的妻子蘿希將他急送入院，醫師發現他患有第二型糖尿病。他的腳趾嚴重感染，外科醫師截掉該腳趾其餘部分。
Douthett’s wife had been urging him for weeks to have his infected toe examined by a doctor. "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."
杜塞特的妻子數週來敦促他讓醫師檢查他受感染的腳趾頭。「當時我正自行治療，」他說︰「這件事的寓意就是狗救了我的命，否則我絕不會去看醫生。」
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.
這對夫婦說，他們訝異基柯似乎知道杜塞特有感染，需要治療。「牠有點是咬掉感染部分，並在好的骨頭上停住，」蘿希表示。
新聞辭典
credit（with）︰動詞，認為（有某種優點或成就）。例句︰They credited him with the discovery.（他們認為這項發現是他的功勞。）
stupor︰名詞，昏迷、不省人事、恍惚。例句︰He lost his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor.（他醉得不省人事時丟了皮夾。）
moral︰名詞，（故事、事件引出的）寓意、教訓。例句︰I don’t know what moral to draw from all this.（我不知道從這一切中應得出什麼教訓。）
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