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Pet CPR - Care, Prepare, Respond, or How Not to Panic 01-07-2026
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Today Rachann talks about how pet owners could benefit from knowing the basics of CRP and First Aid and how to become Pet Tech CPR Certified. She breaks down what to do in common emergencies and how to stay calm when seconds matter. This episode covers simple steps, hands-on skills, and real situations you can learn from.
Our goal is to help you feel prepared, confident, and ready to protect the pets you love.
Rachann's next Pet CPR class is scheduled for January 19 at 8 am. Sign up at Pet-emt.com using code RCP2026.
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RCP Podcast Pet CPR & First Aid Total 01-07-2026.mp3
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Join Pet EMT on January 19th for a pet CPR class.
Come and learn how to help your furry friend in an emergency.
After all, you are your pet's first responder.
Empower yourself to save and help furry friends when time is short.
In an emergency, you need to know what to do.
Our pet care with a personal touch is not just a motto, it's really what we do.
Sounds like I might want to check in.
Visit us anytime on our Facebook page, Mariah Belle Manor Kennel, or mariahbellemanorkennel.com.
After all, accidents are never planned for.
PetTech offers hands-on training for pet CPR and first aid.
Why is this important for our listeners?
And why is it important to PetTech?
The pet CPR and first aid is near and dear to my heart.
The way I had learned how to do that in my small community back in Indiana was important.
So when we purchased a new home and it was a fixer upper, it was built in
1772 and had been a kennel since the early 1950s.
The mothers always get you in the end.
And of course, I said, well, yes, mom, I'm going to do that.
And at this point, the only one of the
first four still under the same management and same owner, which I think is pretty impressive.
And we say hello and goodbye to a lot of really awesome dogs.
Things have changed over the years, and much like human CPR and first aid,
The more we know, the better we get.
And how do we actually apply this and what happens?
You hope for the best and you plan for
was the old taglet I learned many, many years ago.
The reason I chose Pet Tech is because it is a hands-on program.
So when we had first opened the kennel, let me pull this together, a nice little bow.
When we first opened the kennel, I found it very important to have pet CPR and first aid.
And for me, that included pet CPR and first aid.
What I learned and what I want to share with you, I found fascinating.
Did you know that there are Good Samaritan laws to protect people when they do Good Samaritan acts?
Most people who see a dog get hit in the road, for example.
It happens, unfortunately, but it happens.
time of an unplanned emergency and there's action.
One of the things because of that information really made me think about how I wanted to train.
Here's something I want everybody to think about.
Many of the training facilities who offer pet CPR are offering that training online.
Nothing wrong with that training.
to be the first time I had done it since my online training.
It's a very hands-on, it's a very touch-feel, it's a very real concept.
The first time that you do CPR, it is kind of scary.
Knowing what the compressions feel like, knowing what to do, knowing how loud to be,
In addition to that, there's a program that goes on, it's called RECOVER.
It's the acronym, it's R-E-C-O-V-E-R, just like it says.
And Pet Tech is highly involved with this program.
Are the methods that we're using successful?
Are we doing what we intend to do successfully?
And can we be more successful if we collect data and we know more?
The acronym RECOVER is Reassessment Campaign on Veterinary Resuscitation.
We need to work with them so that we are all working towards the same goal.
Because if you're in a veterinary setting, you have a lot of different tools
available than if you're out on a hike or you're walking and you see a dog get hit.
Welcome back to Raising Connections.
This morning we're talking pet CPR and first aid.
What kind of help can we do and are we prepared to offer the best help that we can?
And if you really stop and think about this,
Would you leave your pet somewhere they're not trained for pet CPR and first aid?
Lots of things to think about.
One of the things that I will get into...
is what is it and how we train it and who and why and all of that kind of good stuff.
Can you imagine being a first responder in a house fire?
there's a family pet, what happens?
We've all seen those movies where, oh my gosh, don't forget the dog.
The Kennel Club here in Carroll County, Maryland, actually does wonderful things.
I'm so proud to be involved with them.
So that way, when there is an emergency, the pets have some equipment in this
fire trucks to help with what's going on.
What a great community we have around us.
There's lots of information for the Carroll Kennel Club online.
It's everybody's dog they're watching for.
When those first responders come to an event,
and they have a situation where pets are involved, their first priority, as always, are the people.
And that is their training and that is their position to do.
And that's where pet CPR and first aid and responding, knowing how to do that CPR for pets.
And is there a difference between the five-pound Chihuahua and the 110-pound Newfoundland?
there a difference between the cat versus the Labrador retriever?
There's a lot in beats per minute.
Lots of things to learn when you attend a pet CPR training.
People come in different shapes and sizes.
Was actually training people CPR.
And one of the students in that class came forward and asked, can I use this on my dog?
We have to make a place where people can get this information.
And that's where Pet Tech came from.
With the changes in our world and
All of these pieces going on, it's really important.
Two, we're doing things properly.
And three, there's only three situations you're going to come across.
But why is the pet non-responsive?
This is a first aid situation.
Is this frostbite, is it hypothermia, is it bleeding, is it pain, is it shock, is it broken bones?
The second situation you'll come across is CPR, where there is cardiopulmonary breathing required.
The third situation is rescue breathing.
So this is when the pet cannot breathe for some reason.
Could it be that they've ingested drugs?
Why do you need to help that pet breathe?
Here's something to think about.
And if you listen to that tip, what you'll find is
How do you provide CPR in that situation?
In a human, air goes in and out of a mouth, air goes in and out of a nose.
But in a dog, it's really complex design right there in that nose.
How do you give CPR to something like that?
What about a cat or a brachial-faced dog, those little pugs?
How do you do something like that?
Hmm, lots of things to think about.
Lots of things to think about, and that's where the training comes into play.
Our next Pet CPR class is January 19th, starting at 8 A.m.
And how do you do that, especially if you're going to give rescue breaths?
There's a lot to think about and learn here.
Lots of things to think about.
What happens if it's a snake bite?
Dogs can be allergic and have reactions just like people can.
Pet first aid contents, what do you want to have with you?
If you need to make that muzzle, what do you need to have around in order to do it?
And there's actually some very common things around to use muzzles with.
What happens in a veterinary's office is incredibly important and incredibly valuable.
That dog comes up to shores, it gets up
So you're working with field, if you will.
What's in your field, what's in your hands at that point?
What are your priorities of your pet care assessment?
What are you going to start first?
With humans, we have 911 to call.
With those pets, we don't have 911 to call.
We teach a snout-to-tail assessment and injury assessment.
Snout-to-tail assessment, did you know that oftentimes when pets are being groomed,
That is when different body issues come out.
As pet owners, we tend to pet the areas that the dog or the cat prefers.
Pet vitals are incredibly different than human vitals.
different, breathing rates different, good stuff to know.
When you have a small dog, about nine is where a geriatric comes in, or older stages of life.
As the larger the dog, the younger that gets.
Unfortunately, the larger dogs don't tend to live statistically as long as the smaller dogs.
What is the care for an older dog like?
What do you do if there's an emergency situation with an older dog?
Dental care, really important.
And that's part of the Pet Saver training, that eight-hour course.
Pet and first aid, there is a five-hour course that can be taken that gives you just the basics.
Are you ready to learn pet CPR?
Come take a class with us at Pet EMT.
Sign up using code RCP2026 Raising Connections Program.
2026 at our website, PetEMT.com, and join us for our class.
Our next PetCPR class is January 19th, starting at 8 a.m.
Sign up and come learn with us.
We'll make some more connections.