My little one started with this about a year ago (She's going to be 9 in May, but still acts like a 1 year old puppy!) -- it got a little bad when she caught a cold late last year. We went into the vet and just to reconfirm to both of us, she had x-rays done. Sure enough, she was diagnosed with the start of collapsing trachea. It sounds horrible, but she's really fine. It's only obvious when she gets super excited or has been running around and she looks straight up. What ends up happening is that the trachea narrows up a bit -- hence that piggy/honking sound.
The vet reassured me that as long as she isn't having any problems, just to treat it as a quirk, but of course, to make note of any big changes to it. |