MIRROR
A retired builder could have had his life saved by his hungry puppy who had chewed his big toe ‘to the bone.’
David Lindsay, 64, was woken in horror one more by his wife’s scream as he lay asleep on a sofa at their home only to find his right big toe was a bloody stump.
The bone in his toe had been fractured by his seven month old bulldog puppy Harley as he slept and his toe nail left hanging off.
However the horror incident turned out to be a potential life-saver as medics later discovered he had lost the feeling in his feet due to two blocked arteries in his legs.
David, a father to five daughters and grandfather to 11 children, has no plans on getting rid of the naughty pup after it inadvertently saved his life.
David, from Cambridge, who suffers from diabetes, said: “I was asleep on the couch when my wife walked in and shouted, ‘Dave, the puppy’s chewing your toe!’
“My puppy had near enough chewed my big toe off! It chewed down to the bone and cracked it.
