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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dog-ate-toes-of-diabetic-owner.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A dog ate three of his owner's toes as the diabetic man slept" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-dog-ate-toes-of-diabetic-owner.jpg" alt="A dog ate three of his owner's toes as the diabetic man slept"/></a></p>
<p>A dog ate three of his owner&#8217;s toes as the diabetic man slept, probably out of instinct to help remove diseased flesh, animal experts have said.</p>
<p>James Little, 61, from Oregon, called emergency services on Tuesday to say his dog had eaten the body parts while he was sleeping. </p>
<p>He later said he is &#8220;doing fine&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Little suffers from diabetes, of which one symptom is numbness in the hands or feet.</p>
<p>The dog, a Shiba Inu, was acting on its instinct to remove diseased flesh and does not appear to be dangerous, said Douglas County Animal Control Deputy Lee Bartholomew.</p>
<p>Dogs have been known to eat dead or diseased human flesh. A family&#8217;s dog in Illinois ate the toes off a 10-year-old girl&#8217;s left foot while she slept last December. She had a sore on her foot.</p>
<p>In August, a dog in Michigan bit off most of its owner&#8217;s infected big toe after the man passed out from alcohol. The man had diabetes, and the animal was apparently attracted to a festering wound.</p>
<p>Mr Little has given up ownership of his dog, putting it up for adoption pending an examination and a standard 10-day quarantine to determine it does not have rabies, Mr Bartholomew said. &#8220;We are going to find a new home for it,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The dog was taken to Roseburg&#8217;s Saving Grace Pet Adoption Centre, where executive director Wendy Kang said the animal is healthy but appears anxious.</p>
<p>Mr Little was in fair condition at a hospital and expected to be released later.</p>
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