How dog killed his herbalist owner in Calabar

From newsmirror.com/allcitynews.ng

When 60-year-old herbalist in Calabar, Cross River State, Ani Ikoneto, died after his private part was bitten off and eaten by his dog, it was a reminder of the saying of Thom Jones (an American writer, 1945), that though dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness,” yet filling that emptiness could become soar.

Filling that emptiness became very bitter experience when Ikoneto who had gone on drinking expedition struggled to come back home after the drunkenness.

According to neighbours who spoke to Vanguard, Ikoneto who resides at number 12, Jebbs Street in Calabar South, went on a drinking spree on Christmas Eve and returned home drunk.

“When he came back, we had gone to bed but some people were still outside. He went inside his room and slept off without shutting the door and because of too much drink, he excreted on himself.

According to his neighbour Itoro,
“Ikoneto’s dog that was outside smelt the poo and went inside to eat it. In the process, the dog ate his private parts thinking it was meat or part of the excreta.”

According to him, the man raised the alarm, prompting neighbours to rush into his apartment and discover what had happened.

“When we heard him scream, we thought hoodlums had attacked him. But when we got there, we saw that his private part was gone and his dog had blood on its mouth” the neighbours said.

Itoro said the man could not be rushed to the hospital because of the excreta that covered his body, so had to be cleaned up first.

“By the time we finished cleaning him of the shit, he was bleeding so much and on the way to the hospital he died.”

The man was living alone as his daughters were married and lived away from him. He has since been taken to his village for burial.