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How to Give Your Cat CPR

Your Cat is Unconscious, Not Breathing, and You Can't Detect a Pulse - What to Do Now?

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How to give your cat CPR. Your cat is unconscious, and/or your cat isn't breathing, and you can't detect a pulse-what to do now? Learn how to give your cat CPR in this article.

Firstly, you want to make sure your cat is, in fact, unconscious. It may simply be in a very deep sleep-something for which they're very much known. If, in fact it is unconscious, next you need to check to see if if is breathing. If it isn't breathing, then you need to check for a pulse. This is important, even if it isn't breathing, and I'll explain why in a minute.

How do you check to see if in fact it is unconscious? Try calling his/her name, of course-particularly if you know the cat, and/or shake it in an effort to get it to wake up. If after all of your quickly performed efforts you can't get your cat to wake up, next you need to check to see if it's breathing. Be cautious, too, even if it is your cat, since it may react in a fearful way and try to scratch you or bite you if it's been startled and doesn't have it's bearings for some reason. Accidents and/or trauma can make people, let alone animals, act different than they normally would.

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  • How to Give a Cat CPR
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Cat's breathe about 15-20 breathes per minute, yet their heart beats about 120-240 times per minute.
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Good to know, I sure hope I don't have to try it.

Posted on 09/28/2008 at 4:09:26 PM

 
I appreciate pet articles like this one. Thanks for writing it.

Posted on 09/27/2008 at 12:09:47 PM

 
Very good information. You never know when this might become necessary. I'd do all I could to save my two cats. Thanks!

Posted on 08/23/2008 at 9:08:16 PM

 
interesting work. Got to save those love ones too!

Posted on 07/03/2008 at 6:07:39 PM

 
Our cats WERE sound sleepers until we got the puppy - the old Lab they could handle :-)

Posted on 05/09/2008 at 9:05:53 AM

 
Thanks for this great article! My cats are deeply loved and part of the family and two of them are 14 yrs. old. Very informative- I will keep it for future reference.

Posted on 05/06/2008 at 5:05:28 PM

 
Thanks for posting this detailed article :)

Posted on 05/05/2008 at 4:05:22 AM

 
Wow, what great information. And, I know what you mean about 'sleeping soundly'. Our dog snores like a Mac truck and it's like waking the dead to get it up and moving sometimes :-)

Posted on 04/15/2008 at 7:04:33 PM

 
Great article! Thanks for the detailed info.

Posted on 04/11/2008 at 7:04:40 AM

 
This is an awesome article. I have learned about giving pets Mouth-to-Nose CPR a while back, and it is indispensible knowledge. Thank you for all the thoughtful detail in this one. I gotta admit, I got tickled when you said make sure the kitty is ASLEEP rather than not breathing. My 15 year old kitty Mo (aka "mew-mew") sleeps so sound, I wake him up to make sure he's still among the living (and it makes him mad, to be sure, but I just feel better knowing). Thanks for the comment on my latest, BTW. Your work is most excelent!

Posted on 04/02/2008 at 4:04:57 PM

 
Uncle T good article, did ya write it for MawMaw ..lol

Posted on 03/31/2008 at 3:03:16 PM

 
Thanks for this informative article. I have two cats, but I hope I never have to administer CPR on them. Sophie

Posted on 03/31/2008 at 1:03:45 PM

 
Great information!

Posted on 03/25/2008 at 1:03:35 PM

 
Great info here - I've had so many cats as pets and this really could make a difference in saving them.

Posted on 03/25/2008 at 9:03:29 AM

 
Terrific article! Gave a dog CPR once -- saved him too, after he'd chased a rabbit in a drain-type pipe and got his head stuck. Was all but dead before we (2 of us) saved our family pooch.

Posted on 03/20/2008 at 8:03:29 PM

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