Dog's best friend! An Australian man saved the life of a dog after he performed mouth-to-mouth on the canine that had been run over by a car.
Steve Hunter, from Ballarat, Australia, was making a plaster delivery when Salty, a Fox Terrier-Jack Russell cross, suddenly ran out of a driveway and was clipped by an oncoming car.
Salty looked to be gone, but Hunter thought otherwise, 'The Courier' reported.
He carried the dog to the road side, puckered up and, to use his words, "did the deed".
"I gave him CPR, did the whole works. I pulled his jaws apart - and by the way he didn't brush his teeth," he said.
"I pulled them apart, I got as close as I could and I was blowing air in his throat and with one hand giving him CPR on his ribcage," said Hunter.
Salty took his chance and came around long enough for a trip to the Eureka Veterinary Hospital.
The lucky five-year-old pooch is doing fine now, comparatively, with a few cuts to the head and a fractured pelvis.
Hunter has been hailed a hero after he performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Salty last week to prolong its life.
He recounted the story to the grateful Maule family, who didn't know the identity of their dog's saviour.
Jock Maule said Salty had been through a tough run, after an early run-in with a barbed wire fence, but that was nothing compared to this.
Salty is also an unofficial mascot for the Forest Rangers Soccer Club, the report said.
