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Originally Posted by SophieKatesMom  Sophie Kate does that also, my Vet said it is actually a reverse sneeze and is common with Yorkies. It scared me the first time I heard it since she has a collapsed trachea also and I thought she was having a problem.
Here is the Wikipedia description of a reverse sneeze Reverse sneezing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I would suggest you Google reverse sneeze, there are some videos that show dogs actually reverse sneezing.
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I agree that's most likely what it is. My new Yorkie puppy has done it a few times but my 12 yr. old Beagle does it frequently and always has. It is also termed as "inverted sneeze". It's totally harmless and I've found that for my beage, if I hold her around her chest gently and kind of pick her front end up so she's kind of standing on only her back legs it stops faster (idk if there's any reason for this to work, but it does for her and the vet I work for told me it's fine to do if it helps). I'd look at the videos of dog's doing it to see if it's the same thing your dog is doing before you worry about seeing the vet over it. I work as a vet tech and we had a client who brought her dog in describing it and the vet told her it was inverted sneezing, but she was nervous and requested that we make sure. So a few hundred dollars worth of bloodwork and xrays reveiled that the dog was perfectly healthy.