You've heard of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation? How about mouth-to-muzzle?
Krisna Torres, a woman from Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., did just that recently - and saved the life of a friend's dog. Now she's a hero.
Torres and her husband Diego were attending a birthday party for the six-year-old daughter of their friend, Maricruz Cisneros. Because the Cisneros family had opened a gate to the yard for guests to enter, their two small dogs were leashed and placed in a treehouse (probably not the best idea).
But the entrance to the treehouse wasn't blocked well, and one of the dogs, a Chihuahua named Chiquilla, fell or jumped and was choked by the leash. She was found on the ground, her eyes rolled back and her tongue out.
"Everyone was freaking out," Diego Torres told the Orange County Register. "You can guess what happened; the dog jumped off and hung itself."
Krisna Torres has no training in CPR, but she'd seen the procedure enough on TV to know what to do. She began breathing into the dog's mouth.
And guess what? Chiquilla's eyes blinked, and she gasped for air. A quick trip to the vet confirmed that the dog was going to be fine.
And what about the experience of giving mouth-to-mouth to a dog? Krisna Torres laughed.
"It was horrible," she said. "The dog's mouth was just horrible."
So I'm wondering: Would you do the same thing if your dog - or any dog - needed mouth to mouth?
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