Anyone given or heard of a dog given CPR successfully?

Damn. That's a fricked up story, man.
CPR can work on dogs. Compressions are done from the side and breaths are given through the snout. Just like with humans timing is everything.

From a strictly medical standpoint, canine CPR is just as effective as human CPR. Which means it’s not very effective. Something like 7% of CPR on humans is effective. Largely because the American Heart Association gets money every time someone gets a card, their lobbyists have done a great job of getting mandatory CPR training written into all sorts of job descriptions. This has led to widespread misconceptions that CPR is a cure all. It doesn’t help that on TV they give CPR to a guy run over by a truck and five minutes later he is drinking a beer at the bar. CPR is meant for a fairly narrow set of medical conditions based around specific cardiac failures. For instance, all that CPR you see on gunshot victims. That shite doesn’t work. Your heart isn’t beating in that case because you have bled out. Manually pumping the heart isn’t going to circulate blood that isn’t there. Sorry but when you are out of blood you are dead.

All that being said, one of the conditions for which CPR absolutely does work is drowning. The heart has stopped because of a lack of oxygen and is subject to restarting once oxygen content is restored. Even better in your scenario is that the water was cold. The cold serves to protect brain function in the absence of oxygen. There are documented cases of bringing people back from cold drownings where they have been underwater for up to 20 minutes. The saying in the medical world is you aren’t dead until you are warm and dead.

So, yep, you killed your buddies dog.

No but I know quite a few Aggies that practice anal CPR on sheep. Does that count?

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Anyone given or heard of a dog given CPR successfully?

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Yes one time and the timing was perfect. I didn't know it was a "thing" just came natural. The gyp liad on my little girls favorite puppy of the litter. Couple puffs to the nose and I squeezed the ribs a couple times. The pup squeaked a lil so I did it a few more times and she came back.

The way it squeaked and came back was kind of like starting a two cycle engine. We were fortunate.

Not CPR, but mouth to snout.

My young kids fashioned a leash out of a rope and were playing with the dog in the yard and decided to take him down the kiddie slide on the swing set. The rope caught at the top of the slide and the dog was being hung.

I'm in the house going to the bathroom and I hear all hell breaking loose and finally my wife comes in and says the dog is choking to death. They had a knife and were trying to cut the rope when I get out there, so I finish cutting the dog loose and set him up on the top of the slide.

His eyes are rolled into the back of his head and his tounge is sticking out a mile and we're almost face to face and I thought, why not? So I put my mouth over his nose and pushed air into his lungs then squeezed his chest. I waited a few seconds and did it again. Then again.

Then you could see the dogs eyes start to move and he slowly came around.

Happy yes, but I gotta say it was a god-like feeling bringing him back from the brink.

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Mizz-SEC

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Curious, why not just lift the dog so the rope wasn't pulling on his neck?

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Y'all are nasty. I'd never put a dog's mouth or nose to my mouth.

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But doesn’t think twice eating wifeys a-hole.

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his oldest and favorite pet, which is blind,

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I’m sorry that this happened but it’s not your fault
Why was there not something to prevent the blind dog from falling in the pool?

was a thread on here, with video, of a guy reviving a squirrel