CANINE99 Dog learns CPR in 45 minutes and could now help save lives
ON HOW SHE TAUGHT BOXER TO DO CPR THIS brilliant boxer dog is so clever she has learned to do CPR on her owner.
Dog lover Tania Butler, 35, said it only took three-year-old Pixie a total of 45 minutes to learn the lifesaving manoeuvre.
Now when Tania lies motionless and unresponsive on the floor, Pixie will leap into action and pound on her chest in exactly the right place.
She has become so good at it that the animal management worker has to put a book under her top during training, to protect her chest.
Senior shelter officer Tania taught Pixie cardiopulmonary resuscitation for fun during lockdown – but hopes she could help save a life if needed.
Tania, of Waikato, New Zealand, said: “I wanted to teach her a new trick, she knows quite a few and wanted to do something a bit different.
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“She knows all her basic commands, competitive obedience, hungry hippos, jenga, back stall, arm jumps.
“Pixie is so very smart and insanely easy to teach, she loves her trick training.”
Tania started teaching Pixie in April and said it only took the pooch two or three training sessions of about 15 minutes each to master it.
She has six dogs – three boxers, a pitbull, an American bully and an American Staffordshire terrier.
She added: “This is just a trick I saw Lusy Imbergerova and her gorgeous dog Deril do at Crufts 2017 and thought that was amazing and never forgot her routine.
“I just love the company of the dogs, they are real characters, and always make me laugh and cry too sometimes.
“I love training with them it brings me such joy. Only a few of my dogs compete as the others are just not into it and that’s fine, they still amazing pets and the best cuddlers.”
I wanted to teach her a new trick, Pixie is so very smart & insanely easy to teach
TANIA BUTLER