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My pet sitter recently took a training course in pet CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). I think it's great that she's trying to do more to protect the pets under her care, but the pragmatist in me wonders if she's wasting her time. The unfortunate truth is that performing CPR on a dog or cat that has stopped breathing and doesn't have a heartbeat is almost always ineffective. Take a look at this depressing stat: Only 6-7% of dogs and cats that stop breathing and don't have a heartbeat while in the veterinary hospital survive to return home to their families. And this is when doctors, technicians, and drugs that can make a huge difference in life and death situations are all within arm's ...
Pig Pig is, you guessed it, a pig (well, a piglet) in LaCenter, Wash. who defied death thanks to her farmer owner's quick thinking. The newborn's life had gotten off to a rough start when Pig Pig's mother, deathly ill from complications from labor, accidentally rolled over onto the piglet, crushing her "flat as a pancake." Fortunately owner Jeff Olsen was nearby and stepped in with heroic mouth-to-snout CPR, breathing new life into the pretty pink porker. And that was just the beginning of Pig Pig's adventures. When her mother died shortly afterwards, Jeff's wife Heidi placed the newborn piglet with a new litter of Red Heeler puppies, hoping that the doggie mother would take to the piglet. ...
