Meet the dog that woke up even after getting two lethal injections

A family in the US was left stunned when their pet dog, a Rottweiler, which a veterinary doctor had injected twice with a lethal cocktail of drugs, woke up again.

Matt Olivarez, from Redford, Michigan, had said a tearful goodbye to his 10-year-old Rottweiler Mia, before she received the injections.

He then brought her body home in a blanket so the family could bury her the next day, but just hours later he was surprised to find her alive and wanting a bowl of food.

Now Mia, who suffers from severe spinal problems and is in so much pain that she is unable to walk, may have to be put down for the second time after beating the death sentence.

"Mia is a very special girl. She protected me when a pitbull came in my yard and tried to bite me," Olivarez's mother said.

"She protected my grandson when he was one-and-a-half years old from going out on the street by holding him by his T-shirt."

The doctor declined to comment about Mia because he wants to verify it is the same dog.