When Debbie Parkhurst, 45, was home alone and choked on an apple, her dog came to her rescue by performing a Heimlich maneuver!
“It was lodged pretty tight because I couldn’t breathe,”
she said. “I tried to do the thing where you lean over a chair and give yourself the Heimlich, but it didn’t work.”
Parkhurst said she then began beating her chest, an action that might have attracted Toby’s attention.
“The next think I know, Toby’s up on his hind feet and he’s
got his front paws on my shoulders,” she recalled. “He pushed me to the
ground, and once I was on my back, he began jumping up and down on my
chest.”
Toby’s jumping apparently managed to dislodge the apple from Parkhurst’s windpipe.
“As soon as I started breathing, he stopped and began licking my face, as if to keep me from passing out,” she said.
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NAIROBI,
Kenya — A stray dog saved the life of a newborn baby after finding the
abandoned infant in a forest and apparently carrying it across a busy
road and through some barbed wire to her litter of puppies, witnesses
said.
The stray dog found the infant, clad in tattered clothing, in
a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital of Nairobi,
Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.
The dog apparently found the baby Friday in the plastic bag
in which the infant had been abandoned, said Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of
the shed where the animal was guarding its puppies. The seven-pound,
four-ounce infant was taken to the hospital for treatment on Saturday.
“She is doing well, responding to treatment, she is stable.
... She is on antibiotics,” Kenyatta National Hospital spokeswoman
Hanna Gakuo told The Associated Press from the hospital, where health
workers called the infant Angel.
Kenya’s media often report...
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New Year!
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Happy New Year! Please make a New Year's resolution that will help animals in 2013. Here are some ideas.
Adopt; don’t buy.
Animal shelters are filled with dogs and cats waiting for a home. The
economic crisis has forced some families to give up their pets.
Adopting from shelters and rescue groups saves a life and prevents the
misery of dogs housed as breeding stock at puppy mills. Most animals for
sale at pet stores and online come from these abusive puppy mills. Get involved in efforts to protect animals. Go to humanesociety.org to sign up for email alerts
and to learn more about the needs of animals in your community and
around the world.Don’t buy fur or fur-trimmed garments. Spay or neuter your pet to reduce pet
overpopulation, and tell your friends and family about the benefits of
this simple and life saving procedure. Volunteer your time to help your local animal shelters and rescue groups. Be prepared for when disaster...
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