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Protecting your pet: CPR classes and more

Everyone from dog-related business owners to dog owners

Everyone from dog-related business owners to dog owners can take the first-aid course in East Northport to learn CPR and other lifesaving techniques to help save their pets' lives. Videojournalist: Jim Staubitser (March 10, 2013)   (March 19, 2013 4:32 PM)

The instructor held up the head of a stuffed animal -- showing how to pull the tongue out first to extend the passageway -- and pretended to clamp her mouth down on the snout to make a tight seal.

"Two full breaths, check for the rise and fall of the chest," says Robyn Elman, a certified pet first aid teacher, during a recent class offered at Just Dogs! Gourmet in East Northport. Beyond basic...

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