Dogs are always saving people. Everywhere you look they're pulling you out of fires, eating your face off to wake you up from an overdose, dialing 911, driving you to the hospital, and eating your homework. The new one this week is an overachieving two year old golden labrador named Toby, who in addition to his normal training picked up the Heimlich maneuver. Toby performed his doggy adapted technique on his choking owner Debbie Parkhurst, who bit off a little more apple than she could chew.

"It was lodged pretty tight because I couldn't breathe," she said. "I tried to do the thing where you lean over a chair and give yourself the Heimlich, but it didn't work."

"The next think I know, Toby's up on his hind feet and he's got his front paws on my shoulders," she recalled. "He pushed me to the ground, and once I was on my back, he began jumping up and down on my chest."

Toby's jumping managed to uncork Mrs. Parkhurst. The dog even recognized when Parkhurst was breathing on her own and stopped jumping and began licking the lady's face. The hero has gotta kiss the girl right?

"As soon as I started breathing, he stopped and began licking my face, as if to keep me from passing out," she said.

"I, literally, have pawprint-shaped bruises on my chest," Parkhurst said. "I'm still a little hoarse, but otherwise, I'm OK.

According to Parkhurst, her doctor says that without Toby, Parkhurst would probably be dead choking being quite fatal and all if not attended to promptly.

What's next doggy CPR?

JohnnyForeigner

United Kingdom

July 2003

MAR 29, 2007 12:16 AM

Aww, for a minute I thought a dog had helped to reform the calssic crust/ska punk band

Bicycle_Samurai

York, ON

September 2003

MAR 29, 2007 12:16 AM

That's incredulous.

Cassiel

Aurora, CO

September 2004

MAR 29, 2007 12:31 AM

yet another reason why dogs > cats

DevilsReject

Cleveland, OH

February 2007

MAR 29, 2007 12:39 AM

my dog would of probably humped my lifeless body, then stole my wallet and took off with all them bitches he looks at in the neighborhood.....

baudot

Oakland, CA

February 2004

MAR 29, 2007 12:41 AM

TheAngrySloth said:
That's incredulous.

That word.... I do not think you know what it means.

also:

"I've inventad a manuvah!"

5371W

Elizabethtown, KY

May 2005

MAR 29, 2007 01:07 AM

Youtube or it didn't happen.

The_Melon_Helmet

Oakton, VA

June 2006

MAR 29, 2007 01:31 AM

Wow, it wasn't until I saw this article that I realized how worthless my dog is. He never saves my life, he can't drive an auto-mobile, and he doesn't even take himself for a walk... he makes me do that! What a shit-face. I'm going to make him read this article and write a 10 page report on it when he wakes up.

alabasta

Australia

February 2005

MAR 29, 2007 02:31 AM

I don't see what the hype is about. Doesn't Toby know that the Heimlich Manoeuvre was discredited as a suitable treatment for choking years ago? Good thing she survived otherwise that pooch could have been looking down the barrell of some pretty serious medical negligence litigation.

Scrap

USA

January 2004

MAR 29, 2007 02:31 AM

That story is bullshit.

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

MAR 29, 2007 02:44 AM

baudot said:

TheAngrySloth said:
That's incredulous.

That word.... I do not think you know what it means.

I'm utterly incredible!

private_grave

Belgium

April 2005

MAR 29, 2007 03:17 AM

What a dip-shit, here you are choking and your dog saves you.

Your dog.

comrade

Portland, OR

April 2004

MAR 29, 2007 03:30 AM

In North Korea, you choke on dog!

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

MAR 29, 2007 04:50 AM

comrade said:
In North Korea, you choke on dog!

In Mother Russia, dog chokes on you!