If a dog bit off your finger and swallowed it, would you euthanize the dog to retrieve the finger?

Of course not.
The tentacle would alredy be full of the dog’s bacteria and halfway digested by its stomach acid.

Not if you got to it soon enough.

@Dutchess_III
How long would your finger have to be in a dog turd until you say “nah, not taking that back”

Could one not just open up the dog to retrieve the digit? Why kill the poor soul?

No, doggonit.

Why when you can make it throw up. But then again, the dog did bite off my finger. I may not be in the mental place to feel kind towards it. I’m always kind to animals but I’ve never been attacked by one. I probably would’ve killed it defending myself.

@ragingloli Surely you’re not suggesting that spending 10 minutes in a pile of dog poop is some how less sanitary than spending 10 seconds in dog poop. Do you go for the 3 second rule too?

@ZEPHYRA The vet was unavailable, and the hospital refused to do surgery on a dog. Anyway they put an endoscope tube down his throat and put a loop around the finger and pulling it out that way.

My thoughts are if I had a dog who would attack someone, bite them hard enough to sever a finger, I’d kill it for that reason alone.

Why the heck was the endoscope not the first option?

Anyway, I’m not a concert pianist, and no hospital would go to heroic efforts to save my finger, so I’d probably be SOL.

It was a reality TV show, @Seek!

I would go to heroic efforts to save your finger.

Depends on what finger, and how I felt for the dog.

In a heartbeat, if it was the one and only option for regaining my finger.
And I don’t even rely on my fingers for my livelihood.

If no one objected on TV, there would be no 15 minutes of fame.

Why would which finger matter @SQUEEKY2?

@Dutchess_III
a pinky is not as important as a thumb.

Yeah. Well, the fecking dog literally bit my finger off. He’s daid.

@ragingloli If I really liked the dog and it was the pinky the dog would have a better chance at remaining alive a thumb and a good chance it could be saved and put back on,well good by dog.

I don’t think any of my digits are so important I’d kill my dog. If I was a concert pianist, I imagine I’d feel different. However, I’d investigate other options before agreeing to having my dog put down. That would be my absolute last resort.

I understand them not wanting to operate on a dog, since they’re probably not equipped or experienced to do such a thing but that would be my first option instead of killing it.

@ashlynm the only thing wrong with that ,may time they may have a very small time limit to get the finger back.

Kill the fucking thing. Even if you can’t get the finger in a usable state still kill the dog.. It bit a fucking fucking finger off.

I would then isolate that dog and put a muzzle over its mouth!

@ZEPHYRA That’s no way for a dog to live. There are some things worse than death. I would think that would be one of them. It was also angrily nurture any aggressive tendencies the dog already has.

@Earthbound_Misfit In my opinion, it’s really not even the finger vs the dog. As @johnpowell so eloquently put it…..

Would anyone have a problem killing the dog, if it was a child’s finger?

no finger is worth a life

The life in question doesn’t deserve to be around humans. Like @SQUEEKY2 said, would people feel differently if it was a child’s finger? What about a child’s face?

What if the man was provoking the dog? What if the dog was being hurt in some way? What if it was protecting someone else? Why didn’t the man heed any signals that the dog was about to bite? We don’t know why the dog bit the man and so therefore, we don’t know whether the dog or the man was at fault here.

Not to mention, you asked what I would do, not what you think I should do @Dutchess_III.

Yeah, I’d hesitate before killing a dog for a child’s finger. I wouldn’t kill a child who swallowed another kid’s finger, either.

Sorry people but if the Doctor said he could put the finger back on successfully if it could be retrieved fast ,well good by dog, is all I am going to say.

Yes, without a second thought.

Would everyone be fine if say, we dropped the dog off in the forest and let it survive on its own? I would be cool if it was pretty much assured it wouldn’t run into another human. Personally, I think a needle and drifting off to sleep is much more humane.

I’m against killing but in some cases you need to protect people. However if you want to pay for a big doggie prison for face biters and finger eaters I am totally fine with helping pay for that with my tax dollars. Infact, that seems like the least offensive way of spending my tax dollars.

If I wasn’t a concert pianist, I don’t think I’d kill the dog to get my finger back. Unless, of course it was my middle finger. Can’t drive in the States without my middle finger.