Reverse Sneezing!

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Does anyone else's dog do it?

The worst place she has done it is in a pub. It was pretty quiet, only 3 or 4 people in there, but oh my goodness! She made such a noise and everyone panicked, probably thought she was dying!
 
Someone else would probably be able to shed much more light than me , but my old collie used to do this , it was horrible to watch as he sounded as though he could hardly breathe and was about to drop dead , my vet told me it was a form of kennel cough? As poor bobby's throat was so irritated , after the first burst , he would have a few attacks over several days and i was told , by my vet , to give him half a junior soluble asprin 75mg once a day for a couple of days ( asprin must be the soluble kind but administered dry.)
 
It sounds horrible, doesn't it? D: My vet assured me it doesn't hurt them or anything, but I'm sure it scares my lovely woof/

I've got quite a few facts about it, so I'm more wondering how many other doggies have this problem ^^
 
Ricoh does this a lot, at least once a day, worst was about five times in one day. It sounds very distressing but doesn't actually seem to bother him, vet was totally unconcerned. My only issue is whether he might start honking during training and have to stop dead or have difficulty breathing mid-run, though it never seems to have affected him while running so far, fingers crossed. :)
 
I'm pretty sure mine does- first time it happened I was 'Kennel cough!' and off to the vets. Sometimes it was quite worrying, now its just the very occasional honk and quack episode, usually after sleeping upside dwn. I find that gently massaging his throat so he swallows seems to help it die down very quickly.
 
My rottie does this!! OH refers to it as 'Rocky blowing up his air bed' LOL, sounds exactly like it!!!

Seen by vet - not sure why he does it but nothing to worry about!!!!
 
paisley said:
I'm pretty sure mine does- first time it happened I was 'Kennel cough!' and off to the vets.
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Surely you would request a home visit if you thought your dog had kennel cough? Or is that just me?

My welsh sheepdog does this, usually if he's been running around more than usual.
 
At the time, I had no idea I could request a home vist, and in my dim-witted memory I think we were the last visit of the day and asked to wait in the car.
Turned out to be a 'tracho-bronchial irritation' or as I said to my vet 'you mean he's got a sore throat'
 
paisley said:
At the time, I had no idea I could request a home vist, and in my dim-witted memory I think we were the last visit of the day and asked to wait in the car.
Turned out to be a 'tracho-bronchial irritation' or as I said to my vet 'you mean he's got a sore throat'
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Ah OK, fair enough. :)
 
I have never heard of it being linked to KC. One of my old GSDs used to suffer from it a lot, horrible to hear but never seems to do them any harm. I used to just cover her nose gently and rub her throat, seemed to help. She always used to have attacks when lying quietly never when exercising.
 
I'm not sure if it's the same thing, but if by "reverse sneezing", you mean that it's the same thing as a violent and "monstrous SNIFF"! or a series of them, but I've had several dogs which have done this, mostly lurchers, and though I have no direct evidence, I suspect that it's probably grass seeds, stuck, or bridged across there olfactory system, and they're trying to remove it.

Sometimes it can go on for a few days, and they either shift the offending article, or get used to it. It sounds a bit grim, but if I'm right, then it's little to worry about!

Alec.
 
Annielusian said:
Does anyone else's dog do it?

The worst place she has done it is in a pub. It was pretty quiet, only 3 or 4 people in there, but oh my goodness! She made such a noise and everyone panicked, probably thought she was dying!
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THis is a YouTube video of a beagle with reverse sneezing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3L4v0W2_Sw&feature=related
Here is another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Map1px797bU&feature=related

What makes me amazed is that people think its so funny. Its actually quite distressing to the dog concerned.

Our dear old dog Candy does it (11 year old beagle bitch) and its quite often short to medium length nosed dogs that do it, and beagles in particular due to a flap that goes across the palate and stops them breathing. If you hold both nostrils with your fingers to block the air way it will force them to breathe through their nose and they will be fine as this video shows.:eek: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbjv0YIm9LQ&feature=related Except on this video the woman isn't putting her fingers over the nose, more like putting her hand over everything!

Our dog does it a lot but she has allergic rhinnitis and it is very debilitating and upsetting illness for her for which there is no cure. She sometimes has up to ten or twelve attacks of really bad reverse sneezing. In between she plays, eats, sleeps and explores 220 acres so she's not at the stage where we have to make any decisions just yet. Once her quality of life tails off we will have to make the heartbreaking decision to pts.

We spent 2K trying to work out what was wrong with her as she wasnt insured. I still think she has aspergilliosis but the vets are doubtful. I am convinced of this, she has a lot of the symptoms. Whilst I type this reply she is doing it now, making a horrendous noise. We have a humidifier that we put on to help dampen the air, so I will go and put that on as it sometimes helps her. :(

PS Our beagle Candy often does it whilst running. She will stop dead and start the 'noise' as she simply has no air intake in which to be able to run when it happens.
 
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Alec Swan! Im so glad you said that I have a lurcher and first time he did it was when he was a pup I thought he was having some sort of seizure and the noise was horendous I panicked rubbed his throat and took him outside to cool down. He does it every now and again and im still. the same
 
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