ok: chest physical therapy for animals:
Lie your pet across your lap with their chest over your leg and their head lower than the chest. Cup your hand so that your are holding the fingers stiffly in a cup shape and the wrist is relaxed and lightly tap the chest (softer than clapping, try it against your own thigh first it should make a slight horse-hooves-clopping sound). It should be comfy to your pet, and it helps their lungs drain.
To resuscitate a drowned cat or dog, grasp them firmly at the waist/hips and spin in a circle, swinging the pet. The centrifugal force will help clear fluid from their lungs. Trust me in that it will work on a limp pet. This is how I saved my cat Domino after he had a near-fatal allergic reaction to Hartz flea spray. I spun him until I was dizzy and the cat began to weakly struggle; then I did the chest percussions, changing the cat's body position to drain another lobe of the lungs. Sounds crazy; but when you have a desperate situation you'll go for crazy. I had read the "spin the cat" treatment in a vet book for resuscitating a drowned cat; and the chest percussions I know from physical therapy school and lots and lots of practice on kids with cystic fibrosis. Works just fine on pets too.
Lie your pet across your lap with their chest over your leg and their head lower than the chest. Cup your hand so that your are holding the fingers stiffly in a cup shape and the wrist is relaxed and lightly tap the chest (softer than clapping, try it against your own thigh first it should make a slight horse-hooves-clopping sound). It should be comfy to your pet, and it helps their lungs drain.
To resuscitate a drowned cat or dog, grasp them firmly at the waist/hips and spin in a circle, swinging the pet. The centrifugal force will help clear fluid from their lungs. Trust me in that it will work on a limp pet. This is how I saved my cat Domino after he had a near-fatal allergic reaction to Hartz flea spray. I spun him until I was dizzy and the cat began to weakly struggle; then I did the chest percussions, changing the cat's body position to drain another lobe of the lungs. Sounds crazy; but when you have a desperate situation you'll go for crazy. I had read the "spin the cat" treatment in a vet book for resuscitating a drowned cat; and the chest percussions I know from physical therapy school and lots and lots of practice on kids with cystic fibrosis. Works just fine on pets too.
