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Local senator's wife saves dog with mouth-to-snout CPR

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State Sen. Rich Alloway (R., Franklin) and his wife Shannon, were on vacation at Assateague Beach in Maryland when he saw a woman lift a small lifeless animal out of the water.

Rich Alloway yelled over to his wife, asking her if she knew how to resuscitate a dog and to come quick, according to the Public Opinion of Chambersburg.

Shannon Alloway, a certified respiratory therapist who spent eight years as a veterinary technician, raced over to the dog, an 8-pound Maltese named Lexington, who by that time was surrounded by a crowd and crying children.

Alloway told the newspaper that his wife applied "mouth to snout resuscitation" to the dog whose lips and eyes were blue.

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