After trying to fetch a big stick, the Boston Terrier was suddenly at the bottom of the clear lake, motionless, breathless and lifeless.

Pastor Randy Passons had been trained as an emergency medical technician 20 years ago and had heard of people giving cardio-pulmonary resuscitation to animals.

"So I did chest compressions," said Passons, the Bigfork pastor who also credits divine intervention.

(READ the story in the Missoulian)