# Help finding some creepy Russian drowning dog experiment footage? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 6, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-some-creepy-russian-drowning-dog-experiment-footage/605254 "2011-12-06T12:41:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-some-creepy-russian-drowning-dog-experiment-footage/605254/1 "2011-12-06T12:41:58Z")
…no, _not_ “Experiments in the Revival of Organisms” (aka the "Soviet severed dog’s head on life support). Though for all I know, it might have been by the same researcher. The film I’m actually looking for was something I saw briefly on some History or Discovery channel documentary (who’s title and subject I can’t remember) in the last couple of years, featuring a dog rendered clinically dead—via _ **drowning** , as seen in profile through the side of the fish tank they’d lowered the poor thing into_—and resuscitated, with no ill effects. (Assuming that it was really the same dog they filmed, later) I’d just like to know if that video is available anywhere online, and/or the reassurance that I didn’t imagine the whole bloody thing. I _think_ the original documentary I saw it in might have been about suspended animation, but I’m not sure. Can anyone help? ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-some-creepy-russian-drowning-dog-experiment-footage/605254/2 "2011-12-06T12:49:56Z")
No luck on the footage, but here is the paper: > **[Use of artificial circulation in resuscitation of drowned dogs](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/030095727690037X)** > > The effectiveness of artificial circulation by the method of Bryukhonenko and his colleagues in the resuscitation of dogs that had died from drowning … > [@Ranchoth](#): > > .and resuscitated, with no ill effects. Not quite: “Resuscitated dogs remained alive from 3 to 72 h and died from pulmonary edema” ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-some-creepy-russian-drowning-dog-experiment-footage/605254/3 "2011-12-06T13:09:05Z")
A quick Google returned, among lots of videos of the separated dog head experiment, [this](http://video.mail.ru/mail/diana7778888/445/8111.html), which is entitled ‘S. Bryukhonenko - resuscitation of dead dogs’. Bryukhonenko is the scientist referred to in the paper posted by **coremelt**. The video may or may not include footage of drowning/ drowned dogs - I only looked at the first minute or so. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-some-creepy-russian-drowning-dog-experiment-footage/605254/4 "2011-12-07T01:35:36Z")
> [@Surok](#): > > A quick Google returned, among lots of videos of the separated dog head experiment, [this](http://video.mail.ru/mail/diana7778888/445/8111.html), which is entitled ‘S. Bryukhonenko - resuscitation of dead dogs’. Bryukhonenko is the scientist referred to in the paper posted by **coremelt**. > > The video may or may not include footage of drowning/ drowned dogs - I only looked at the first minute or so. I checked—not it. Though it has some other neat grisly stuff, as it turns out—you know the only thing creepier than equipment used to keep a severed head alive? Seeing the same equipment in a dark, dusty museum storeroom, lit only by flashlights. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-some-creepy-russian-drowning-dog-experiment-footage/605254/5 "2011-12-07T04:01:38Z")
It’s fiction, but you might be interested to know that one of the protagonists of Richard Adams’ _The Plague Dogs_ is a survivor of this sort of experiment.