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Originally Posted by robert6  Hello everyone, I just got a new yorkie puppy. He is 5 months old. My question is he sometimes does this cough noise. It is not really a cough more like a fast hack noise like a person clearing his throat. It last like a second. Sometimes he will do it once and he is done sometimes two hacks. He does it everyday though. I took him to two different vets and they just look at me a
nd say if he is acting fine and it does not bother him then he is okay. A friend told me about this site and told me you where very informative on here. Anyone know what it could be. Not kennel cough, like I said not a honking cough or reverse sneeze just a fast hack when he is running or excited to see me come home from work. Thanks everyone |
Welcome to the club of the mysterious hacking cough. There are a few of us on here whose pups do the same thing. Lexi does it mostly after drinking water. Sometimes when going for a walk with her harness and she pulls she was hack also. Lexi is now 1 and she has done this since I got her at 13 weeks old. The vet doesn't seem too concerned either, but said it does sound tracheal. It hasn't gotten any worse, but it does happen every day. My first thought was collapsed trachea, and the vet said it could turn into that one day, but it's too early to tell at this point. Mindy10 on here also has a pup that does this.