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Flight attendants Diane Asher and Renaud Spencer responded by administering oxygen to the dog. The dog responded well and recovered by the time the flight landed.
First aid training is one of the first things taught to flight attendants. It is a crucial part of the training because cabin crew members help passengers whenever there is a drop-in medical emergency or cabin pressure on board.
The training prepares the crew to respond quickly to adverse situations during flights. However, vet training is not something that is not commonly taught. In these cases, the survival comes down to quick thinking and the sheer luck of cabin crew members.
Such presence of mind and improvisations were displayed by 2 flight attendants, who saved the life of a dog on a Jetblue flight in 2018. However, the story resurfaced once again around the internet.
Michele Burt was on a flight with her husband and three dogs to Massachusetts. The couple had to follow the mandatory protocol to keep the pets in a cage underneath the seats, but shortly after, the French bulldog started to face breathing problems.
When she got the pet out of the cage, she noticed that its tongue had turned blue due to a lack of oxygen. She made the canine sit on her lap and tried to cool her down, but that didn’t work well.
At that point, the flight attendant Renaud Spencer rushed and intervened to get help after realizing the problem dog was suffering from an emergency.
Her assistant Diane Asher came over to Michele’s seat and first tried to tease the dog with bags of ice on her back which didn’t seem to work out.
It was when Renaud grabbed an oxygen tank and yellow mask and placed them over to the dog’s snout. In a few minutes, the dog started to breathe normally.
After landing, the dog responded well to the emergency arrangement and recovered. Later, Michele wrote a letter to thank the airline.
Source: Times Now News
in Chandigarh, India. 
