Eighteen months ago, I was diagnosed with throat cancer, the result of a lifetime of smoking.

So, having shopped at his shop, having eaten the fruit and vegetables that he provided for eighteen years, I know him really well. I know about his business and about his daily life.

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.