Dogs from beyond the grave

Life imitates Gothic, part 701, filed under Victor Frankenstein: an Australian source reports on bringing back dogs from the dead.

Metafilter's discussion brings back more on this, in case you weren't weirded out enough.  There's the Soviet film from the 1940s, which shows dogs and, um, parts of dogs functioning minutes after death (bonus points for use of happy Beethoven #5).  Or this abstract from 2004.