Comments on: Sheltie survives, but a Wii bit sore

By: Anne-n-Spencer

Anne-n-Spencer — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:34:16 +0000

I’m with you! I would wii-gard it as a very serious matter!

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:38:48 +0000

It is great the local fire departments are starting to really keep an eye on pets. I would be terrified if my dogs wii-suscitation was in my hands.

By: Anne-n-Spencer

Anne-n-Spencer — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:14:04 +0000

I know that some wonderful benefactor gave one of our nearby fire departments a bunch of special breathing masks to be used on pets as needed; they’re just like the human masks only smaller and presumably with more room for the nose. You may be right about the compressions. I don’t know where their diaphragms are located, and pressure on their chests seems like a bad idea somehow. I guess if I’m ever faced with an emergency, I’ll try mouth to snout and experiment with the force of the breaths. I don’t want to ever have to wii-vive Spencer, either.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:15:22 +0000

I am not sure how to do CPR on a dog- I have breathed into a little (almost new born) kitten’s nose once to help revive it and the kitten didn’t die, so maybe it doesn’t involve chest compressions. My hounds are equally thick skulled, so I hope I would never have to wii-vive them.

By: Anne-n-Spencer

Anne-n-Spencer — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:39:05 +0000

It brings up an interesting question, though, Marie. How do you actually do CPR on a dog? CPR classes provide instructions for CPR on human babies and children, so I expect it must be somehow similar. The news often features items on some heroic fireman giving mouth-to-snout resuscitation to a family pet. How do they know what to do? I’m imagining a closed mouth with shallow breaths through the dog’s nose, but I don’t have a clue. We don’t have a wii, and the Beagle has a thick skull, so I suspect chances of this happening at our house are wii-mote.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:12:10 +0000

I am sad to say this has also happened at my house. The dogs get excited by the swinging arms that happen when bowling. Luckily, no one has gotten hurt. I can’t see “bowling” hard enough to knock out a dog – that is a serious bowler. If they dropped the remote at that speed, they would probably destroy their tv.