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Originally Posted by y0rkiesR0ck  i think that's a collapsed trachea (also known as reverse sneezing). it sounds worse than it is... my parents' yorkie honks when she gets too excited. but my Kash doesn't honk at all.
my parents blow on her face to help her, but i don't think that works as well as just trying to calm her down.
here's a website about it: Yorkie Medical Information.
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Just wanted to clarify that reverse sneezing and collapsed trachea are different. Excerpt from the link you posted:
Other signs, however, will help you distinguish the two conditions:
If it makes these sounds when excited or after eating or drinking, or turns her elbows outward and extends its neck and gasps inward with a rhythmic snork! snork! snork!, this is reverse sneezing.
If it breathes through the mouth sometimes, or breathes with a raspy sound, or coughs reflexively when you simply rub its throat, it could have a collapsing trachea. If the cough is one or two expulsive outward bursts (forcing air through the trachea to open it), typically with a gag or empty retch at the end, she could have a collapsing trachea.