[Reese1]

Originally Posted by stedmansmommy

Tatum snorts quite a bit when she gets excited, for example, when I come home and walk in the door or sometimes when I play with her. I've also noticed it while I'm standing up and giving her a treat and she is on the ground looking up at me....sometimes she will make the snorting sound then too. These are the ONLY times she does it though.

I have started coming down to her level and sitting on the floor when I give her treats so that she doesn't have to look up at me and this seem to help her from making the snorting sound...but again, she still does it when she gets excited about something.

I'm sure you all know the next question I am going to ask....do you think this could be CT? God, I don't even want to GO THERE...

She has already been diagnosed with a grade 3 LP in both back legs and if she were to be diagnosed with CT too, I'd probably just lose it all together My little girl doesn't need anymore problems I did mention this snorting thing to one of the nurses when she was at the vet being diagnosed with LP, but she just passed it off as being reverse sneezing...however, she never heard Tatum make this noise.

Tatum does have an EXTREMELY short nose/snot. It is very, very short - almost non existent at times it seems, LOL. I thought that Stedman's was short, but that was before I got Tatum. I don't know if her having a really short nose could have anything to do with it?

I will try and get a good video of her doing it and post it. I've got to get her excited to do it though and right now the little sweetheart's asleep I don't particularly LIKE having to make her do it, but I need to just so you guys can hear it and give me your opinion on it.

I've watched videos online of dogs with CT and their snorting and some of them sound like Tatum, but then again I've also watched videos online of dogs doing the reverse sneezing and some of them sounded like her also...so I am just plain confused

I will definitely have the vet look into this the next time we go back, but in the meantime I just wanted everyone's opinions on it.

Thanks in advance

Wrigley does the same thing! When we are gone and come back, she starts when we walk in the house. She has separation issues and I think she works herself up and gets so anxious.
She also does it when she has her head tilted up, especially like if you are giving her a treat and she's up on her hind legs and her head is really up. ( I hope that makes sense )
We rub her neck or touch water to her lips and she calms down. Sometimes I think it scares her as much as it does us!
She doesn't do it any other time either and she doesn't make noises when sleeps. I know it's a scary feeling, but obviously very common!