Woman Breast feeds Puppy To Save Its Life

[ashling]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/woman-breastfeeds-puppy_n_4747667.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

When a puppy that she was fostering refused to eat anything, a Colorado woman says she did the only thing that she felt would save his life: breastfeeding the sickly pup from her own breast.

“I just felt like he just had an hour left. That’s how weak he was, he wasn’t moving and I just did it,” the woman, whose identity has not been revealed, told local news outlet KRDO-TV of her decision to breastfeed the dog. "I didn’t know what else to do, I was desperate and I just couldn’t bear sitting there watching it die."

The puppy, according to KRDO, is the runt of a litter of orphaned pups that the woman fostered. She has a 15-month-old child and admits that she felt "weird" about breastfeeding the dog, but she insists that the puppy would've died had she not taken action. The puppy is reportedly now doing much better and is no longer being breastfed.


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i gave mouth to mouth resuscitation to a hamster once.

[undeterred]

1. A reasonable solution to propose from one mammal to another.

[lastlib]

2. I did a "Heimlich maneuver" on a cow once.....

What I want to know is, how did the TV news people get this story?? "Video at ten"??

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. From the story, it appears that the woman posted a picture on her facebook page that then

got shared over and over, and then... Bam! The news is there.

[ashling]

19. Got to watch out for that news . . .

they're on to everything!

[trueblue2007]

3. I WOULD DO IT TOO. do anything to save the baby.

My husband brought home some feral kittens that were really small and sick. we bottle fed them till they were able to eat kitten food. All our cats are rescued.... ANNIE, TAFFY, INKY, SADIE AND SALLY

[cliffordu]

4. Did she do it at the Olive Garden????

Sorry, omfg, I am so sorry......

[In_The_Wind]

6. Not likely.

[ashling]

8. That was my thought when I posted . . .

. . .but I figured I wouldn't go there . . . somebody else will suggest it before long.

[cliffordu]

13. NYC_SKP makes me do everything I do here.

I am his Renfield.

[ashling]

18. Yeah, that's the ticket

[orleans]

5. my daughter gave "mouth to mouse" resuscitation

it bought my daughter some time to rush her to the vet, get the dire prognosis, bring her home, keep her comfortable until she died five or six hours later.

we had her in a little cage in the bathroom with a humidifier going (i ran out and bought one along with some pediolite or whatever the vet told her we should get). my daughter kept checking on her--she was so sick. we had to keep the steam going and the bathroom door closed.

at one point my daughter and i were sitting on the couch. my daughter looks down the hallway and says she just saw a shadow pass along the bottom of the closed bathroom door. "she's out of her cage" my daughter said. which was absurd because she had never gotten out of the cage in good health. and now she could barely move.

i said, "oh my god--go check on her." and she was gone. although her body remained in the cage. i heard the cry go up--my daughter, on her knees, holding this dear little mouse in her hands, wailing, sobbing.....

we are convinced it was the spirit of this little mouse, running free at last, that was the shadow under the door.

(sorry to bring this thread down, but when you mentioned your hamster it just reminded me. i had forgotten how intense and dramatic that night was--and i'm leaving out the worst part before the necessary resuscitation and trip to the vet.)

...a spirit mouse. imagine that...

[ashling]

9. . . .

[KamaAina]

7. But was it a pit bull?

[warrior1]

10. I always give them all of my heart

[azurnoir]

11. Did it have teeth yet?

if so my hats off to her

I've given a cat CPR but that's about as far as it goes

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. I'm just a dude...

and so I don't know about these things.

But, seriously....Ouch?

[KamaAina]

14. Gives a whole new meaning to "doggy style"

[In_The_Wind]

15. hahahaha

[madinmaryland]

16. Dog on Woman? Was it Mrs. Santorum??