Shaken Alan Spencer, 67, was tucking into his dinner when the skin on the pickled vegetable blocked his windpipe.<br />He frantically tried to clear his airway and after around THREE tortuous minutes he made his way to the door in a bid to get help from a passer-by.<br />But he collapsed in his hallway and said he felt his "life slipping away" as he began to black out - much to the horror of his frantic Labradors Lexi and Nancy.<br />But thankfully 18-month-old Lexi leaped into action and jumped with all fours onto the centre of Alan's back and the trapped vegetable shot out of his mouth.<br />The retired performer from Withernsea in East Yorkshire said he wouldn't be here without his adorable dog.
