if you suspect a dog is unconscious approach with extreme caution and particularly if it's not your dog any injured dog is far more likely to to bite you so they may not be unconscious so just be careful approach them from behind ideally touch them with with your foot first and if not there's no response when you do that then touch them with the back of your hand it's far less intrusive than the front of your hand keep looking for any sorts of response at all if there's no response then you need to check their airway you are only going to be looking after or approaching a dog that is your dog or a dog that you have permission to help so if it's if it's not your animal please do not be doing CPR or anything intrusive or first-aid related on them without the permission of the owner okay so if this is your animal or you have permission to help you would then have a look and see if there is anything obvious that has caused a problem so this dog is unconscious you would never do this on a dog that is conscious without extreme caution so you would carefully open up the mouth and ease the tongue forward so pull the tongue forward because the tongue when they're unconscious will roll back on itself and have a look and see if there is anything obvious that is causing an obstruction and this led to them being unconscious okay and if there is you can just get carefully remove that okay so they are unconscious and you need to see if they are breathing if they're unconscious and breathing you're going to put them in the recovery position as we showed you on a previous video where you will extend their airway and get them to perpetually help fast if they are unconscious they are not breathing so when you check to see if they're breathing you can't see their chest move and you would then check for a pulse and the easiest place to find the pulse is in the femoral artery here on the back leg and you would feel it with your fingers here just apply gentle pressure if there is a pulse then what you would be doing is ease the tongue back you would squeeze their jaw together like this and you would breathe into their nose when you breathe into their nose you will see the chest rise so you would breathe into them four or five breaths okay if there was no pulse you would still do those breaths and then you would start with compressions so the compressions for most dogs are in the side of the chest here heel of your hand up over the top and you're going to give 30 compressions you're going to be pushing down hard okay so I will be giving 30 compressions like that followed by two more breaths 30 compressions two breaths it's possible that you might damage the ribs while you're doing this because you're having to push very hard in order to squeeze the heart for a grey hand type chest a keel type chest you would be slightly further forward and for a boxer or a barrel type chest it's been advised that if you can put the dog onto their back and push in the center of the chest like you would for a human then you may well get a better result however it's very difficult to keep a boxer on their back so you might will find that it's easier for you to be doing the compressions in the same way as this