last night my dear 7 month old pikachu nearly died in my arms my friend and I were watching a movie when suddenly my friend looked over at the ferret cage and yelled "OH MY GOD HE'S CHOKING!" out of pure instinct I threw the cage open and snatched pikachu into my hands. he wasn't breathing and his eyes were glazing over he looked at me as if pleading for help and he began to go limp. I altered the Heimlich maneuver for his tiny body by lining up the bottom of one of my palms vertically along his body from the bottom two ribs down and the other along back and started quick, sharp squeezing them together in the rhythm of the Heimlich and after 30 seconds of repeated tries a piece of kibble that went down the wrong pipe came out of his mouth. I pried it out of his mouth and did the Heimlich 2 more times to make sure everything came out and began to check if he was breathing again. Thankfully he was breathing fine and was responsive and then he made me nearly break out in tears by licking me all over to thank me while i held him to my chest and told him to NEVER scare me like that again.I'm finally starting to calm down now (this happened 4 hours ago but it keeps replaying in my mind. I'm hoping writing out what happened will help me let it go)