Woman saves dog's life with mouth-to-mouth
Chihuahua hanged itself from tree house during party.
HUNTINGTON BEACH – Krisna Torres saved the life of a family friends' unconscious pet Chihuahua, which had accidentally hung itself off a playground tree house, by performing mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing on the dog.
Torres, 35, of Rancho Santa Margarita, and her husband, Diego, 31, were attending a birthday party Sunday for their friends' 6-year-old daughter.
The Torreses were the first to arrive at their friend's Huntington Beach home, and Diego Torres said he saw two small dogs on top of the backyard tree house.
"We noticed the two dogs on the playground equipment and they were tied to their leashes," Diego Torres said. "I thought they just put them up there so the dogs wouldn't get out of the yard."
Dog owner Maricruz Cisneros said she put the dogs in the tree house because the gate was open for the party and she was afraid they might run into the street.
About 10 minutes later, Cisneros' daughter started to scream for her father.
The Torreses ran over and saw her pooch, Chicuaes, lying unconscious on the ground with her eyes rolled back and tongue flopped out of her mouth.
"Her eyes were blank, she wasn't breathing, nothing," Krisna Torres said. "She wasn't responding."
"Everyone was freaking out," Diego Torres said. "You can guess what happened; the dog jumped off and hung itself."
Cisneros said putting the Chihuahua in the tree house is a tactic she had used before but nobody saw the dog jump or the leash get caught.
"Here I was trying to save my dog, and instead this happened," she said. "My dog looked like she was dead."
Krisna Torres ran to the small dog, pulled out Chicuaes' tongue and started mouth-to-mouth. She was not trained in CPR but reenacted the breathing part of the procedure as she had seen on television.
"Everyone was crying for the dog… but I wasn't. I was concerned for the little dog," Krisna Torres said. "I was never nervous.
"I didn't think. I only reacted."
Krisna said she worked on Chicuaes for about two minutes – and that performing mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing on a dog is as bad as it sounds.
"It was horrible," Krisna Torres said, laughing. "The dog's mouth was just horrible."
Then, a gasp for air and a blink of the eyes – Chicuaes was breathing again.
The Cisneros family rushed Chicuaes to a nearby pet hospital to be checked out, and the veterinarian announced the small dog would be just fine.
Cisneros reported that Chicuaes is being spoiled at home and is back to her happy self.
"She is definitely the queen of the house," she said. "We are just so happy Krisna was there. She's our angel."
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