Lily pad sculpture, Fred Flecther ParkAs mentioned in my first Dachshund Chronicle, Toto had 9 lives. These stories are in no particular order. Toto had been living with us about 4 months when this event happened.
It was a Sunday evening (I know this because the Vet's office was closed). I was busy getting supper on the table. Our daughter was in her booster seat at the table. She kept saying Mommy look at Toto. My reply was just a minute. Finally she said, Toto is asleep. I looked under the table to find him indeed asleep but he didn't look normal. I asked what he was doing she said he chewing on something. I crawled under the table to find that he had been chewing on an electrical cord that had been tied up to prevent such an accident. My husband immediately took him out of the kitchen to the mud room. All the while he was rubbing his chest gently. I was frantically trying to look up the Emergency Vet Clinic number. By the time, I had the Vet on the phone and was telling them what happened, my husband was walking back in the kitchen with a completely revived Toto. I told the Vet that he was awake and eating. The Vet told us to watch him for the rest of the day. He told me that by massaging Toto's chest my husband had saved Toto's life. The only noticeable effect from chewing on the electrical cord, was two of his teeth never came that area of his mouth.