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Iditarod Dog Saved With Mouth-To-Snout CPR
KETV ^ | 8/10/12

Posted on 03/10/2012 10:07:22 PM PST by Slings and Arrows

An Iditarod sled dog, who collapsed navigating a steep section of Alaska's Dalzell Gorge, was saved by his racer-owner thanks to some mouth-to-snout CPR.

Scott "Mushing Mortician" Janssen, 51, told the Anchorage Daily News that the 9-year-old husky, named Marshall, was pulling hard at the sled and then fell to the ground.

"I know what death looks like, and he was gone. Nobody home," the Anchorage funeral home owner told the newspaper.

According to the publication, Janssen saw that the husky stopped breathing, so he started CPR by putting his mouth over the dog's snout, breathing air into his lungs and compressing his chest.

"I'm like 'C'mon dude, please come back.' And he did," Janssen said.

Janssen told the newspaper that Marshall was carried in the sled for the next 32 miles until the team reached the Rohn checkpoint. He was treated by a veterinarian, given an IV and was prepped to be flown back to Anchorage.

"He's doing just fine. He's still at the checkpoint, and they're flying him back home today," Janssen said.

Read more: http://www.ketv.com/sports/30635696/detail.html#ixzz1omlTIVoo

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Good dog!
1 posted on 03/10/2012 10:07:28 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
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To: Joe 6-pack

Ping!


2 posted on 03/10/2012 10:09:45 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; Shannon; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; ...
WOOOF!

The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.

3 posted on 03/10/2012 10:09:45 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Nice response time on the ping.


4 posted on 03/10/2012 10:10:21 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Very fortunate. Animal CPR works less often than on people.


5 posted on 03/10/2012 10:10:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Maybe he is really a cat and has nine lives!


6 posted on 03/10/2012 10:22:43 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Burke)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I read the article. Marshall is 9-years old, a bit old to be pulling sleds in marathons. According to Scott Janssen, the dog has been in about 6 Iditarod races.

Time to find Marshall a nice soft bed in front of a fireplace, the better to mush in his dreams.


7 posted on 03/10/2012 10:28:17 PM PST by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I started a puppy that way once...


8 posted on 03/10/2012 10:33:16 PM PST by null and void (Day 1145 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Slings and Arrows

Cool !


9 posted on 03/10/2012 10:33:37 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Secret Agent Man

And people CPR doesn’t work that often.


10 posted on 03/10/2012 10:37:18 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Damn good disguise.


11 posted on 03/10/2012 10:43:20 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: null and void

Beats jumper cables.


12 posted on 03/10/2012 10:43:58 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: SatinDoll
Time to find Marshall a nice soft bed in front of a fireplace, the better to mush in his dreams.

Sounds like that's the plan.

13 posted on 03/10/2012 10:45:22 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I had a nursing instructor back in about 1982 who had been an ICU nurse. She saved her Dalmatian with mouth-to-snout resuscitation. I saved our family’s choking Cocker Spaniel with the Heimlich maneuver a few years earlier. I think my instructor and I probably both thought that if it works with humans, might as well give it a try.


14 posted on 03/10/2012 11:27:46 PM PST by pops88 (Geek chick over 50)
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To: null and void

I performed the Heimlich maneuver on an unconscious cat once and saved it, and I HATE cats. A fur ball popped out of it’s airway!


15 posted on 03/10/2012 11:34:10 PM PST by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: pops88

Can’t make things worse.


16 posted on 03/10/2012 11:34:19 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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Re: “And people CPR doesn’t work that often.”

Just a few days ago I read a stunning statistic.

Only 7% of people who receive CPR after cardiac arrest are alive one year later.

I had no idea.

17 posted on 03/11/2012 1:59:44 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

IIRC, that may be the number for “alive and unimpaired”; i.e., who haven’t suffered brain damage while their hearts were stopped, but yes, the number of people who are brought back by CPR and/or a full code is a lot less than you’d believe from TV and the movies.

Don’t get me wrong - 7% beats 0%, which is what you’d have with no CPR. Still, it’s no magic wand.


18 posted on 03/11/2012 3:43:47 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Joe 6-pack; Slings and Arrows

I luv deez goggies!


19 posted on 03/11/2012 7:30:42 AM PDT by Monkey Face (If you think health care is expensive now, wait til it's free.)
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To: SatinDoll
Time to find Marshall a nice soft bed in front of a fireplace, the better to mush in his dreams.

Absolutely! I don't have that chart in front of me but being nine years old and a large dog, I imagine that he is in his 80s. Too old to be pulling a sled.

20 posted on 03/11/2012 7:53:30 AM PDT by OldPossum (ou)
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