How to Perform CPR on Your Dog

Posted by Clare Bristow | 1 Comment

emergency-first-aidAfter my post on the death of Oprah's dog Gracie, JohanntheDog referred me to an article on his site where there are a number of useful resources on how to give your , and perform the heimlich maneuver: click here to read.

This two paged document Save a Life, Learn Animal CPR also provides a good summary. I've printed it out and put a copy in the car, first aid kit and my dog walking bag - hopefully I'll never have to refer to it.

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Dogs Who Look Like Their Owners

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I hope you like this short video that features dogs who look uncannily like their owners - I keep looking at pictures of Zoe and me to see if there is any resemblance, but I don' think that there is!

Running time 1m14s


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How To Restrain a Dog

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I had to take Zoe to the vet this week - she needed to have her stitches removed after her spay operation.

When the vet asked me to restrain Zoe whilst she removed the stitches I naively thought it would be quite a straightforward task because she's usually pretty good at standing still to be examined.

However she wriggled about on the table and started kicking out with her legs and I just couldn't keep her still. She was giving quite a performance until the veterinary nurse came in and effectively pinned her to the table for the minute or so it took to remove the stitches!

There are many occasions when you may need to restrain your dog - at the vet, examining your dog for an injury, applying medication - and knowing how to do it effectively will be less stressful for your dog and reduces the risk of the person examining your dog being nipped.

I found the following video on ; it's a training video for veterinary nurses and it shows you a number ways to restrain your dog, including the lateral recumbent position that I have yet to master!

I hope you find this video a useful resource; it runs for 4m56s.





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