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"Did you know:
If you have a pacemaker, you can put it in your Will to have your pacemaker donated to a dog in need, after you pass? Or donate your dog's to another dog?
Pacemakers can be donated to dogs with cardiac issues who would depend on it to stay alive.
Ask your vet or google locations and specifics. Always include your pets in your will.
So many pacemakers get thrown away and dogs die because people don't know they can donate theirs. It even saves the dog's owner the cost of the actual pacemaker which sometimes means the difference in being able to afford lifesaving treatment or not."

*please read the articles (2)...
Picture is courtesy of the Pennvet article shared here....

"The Heart of the Matter
In 1967, Dr. James Buchanan (r) examines the first dog to receive a pacemaker.Less than ten years after the first pacemaker was implanted in a person, Penn Vet cardiologist Dr. Buchanan placed the first pacemaker in a dog. Like Jake, the dog was a 10-year-old male, a Basenji with recurrent congestive heart failure due to complete heart block.

Since pacemakers weren’t specially made for animals at the time, Buchanan used one that had been removed from a human patient who had died. Despite the fact that the remaining battery life was estimated to be 18 months, the pacemaker functioned normally for more than five years, with the dog still in good physical condition at 15 years of age."

First article
https://www.vet.upenn.edu/about/news-room/bellwether/penn-vet-extra/penn-vet-extra-february-2015/pacemaker-story

2nd article
https://vhc.missouri.edu/the-beat-goes-on/ #:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20also%20receive%20%E2%80%94%20and%20encourage,life%20for%20someone's%20canine%20companion.