Victorian mother of two Angie Waters said the one-year-old staffordshire kelpie cross gave her a "canine kiss of life" when she collapsed on her kitchen floor after suffering a brain aneurysm.
Home alone with the dog the Waters family adopted just 10 months earlier from an animal shelter, Ms Waters was eventually roused by Pippa's frantic licking and pawing.
"She was whining and very upset and distressed. It was obvious she knew something was seriously wrong with me," Ms Waters said.
"It wasn't until after I had collapsed and Pippa was behaving in such a worried and frantic state that I decided to get some medical help. There's no doubt she saved my life. If she hadn't been able to get me up off that kitchen floor, who knows what would have happened."
Taken by ambulance to hospital, the usually healthy 40-year-old was diagnosed with her potentially fatal aneurysm, a bubble of blood at risk of bursting in her brain. Ms Waters said she believed the dog had saved her life to repay the family.
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