She calls herself ‘The Reptile Rescuer,’ and it isn’t because she saved the life of the cold-blooded, bearded dragon with CPR.
Sherrie Dolezal accidentally set poor Del Sol up for disaster when she forgot to put the rocks back in his swimming pool. She soon found him, his golden-hue turned a deathly shade of blue. She set to work. Unsure of how many chest compressions and breaths to administer, she faked it. After all, it’s very hard to go wrong with CPR.
She pumped his little chest, then held him upside down so the water could drain from his lungs. She even held his mouth open and blew breaths inside.
A veterinarian who specializes in exotic pets thinks Del Sol may have been unconscious, but after all the drowning stories we’ve blogged about here, and considering Del Sol’s tiny lung capacity, it wouldn’t have taken much for him to drown. It only takes a few minutes for a human being to drown, after all.
We’re sure Sherrie saved Del Sol’s exotic life, in more ways than one. Besides the CPR-drowning rescue, she rescues abandoned lizards (turtles, dogs) after their previous owners discard them. We take our CPR hats off to Sherrie.
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