CPR saves dog - and dog owner's life | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | News
"By TIM MOWRY, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - When he saw Tink, his 2-year-old German wirehaired pointer, lying lifeless on the snow with a cable snare cinched tight around her neck, Barry Whitehill did the only thing he could do.
He loosened the snare, a process that seemed to take forever, and started giving the dog mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
"By the time I got her mouth open, her tongue was blue and her gums were blue," Whitehill said. "I held her mouth open, held her tongue out and started breathing down her throat."
At the same time, unsure how to give chest compressions on a dog, Whitehill began lifting the dog up and pounding her chest down on the ground...."
"By TIM MOWRY, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - When he saw Tink, his 2-year-old German wirehaired pointer, lying lifeless on the snow with a cable snare cinched tight around her neck, Barry Whitehill did the only thing he could do.
He loosened the snare, a process that seemed to take forever, and started giving the dog mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
"By the time I got her mouth open, her tongue was blue and her gums were blue," Whitehill said. "I held her mouth open, held her tongue out and started breathing down her throat."
At the same time, unsure how to give chest compressions on a dog, Whitehill began lifting the dog up and pounding her chest down on the ground...."
