hi all, I posted a thread last night in the general disc forum about kikko ... he was having the spasdic episodes of wheezing/hacking/coughing. So me, first time yorkie parent, was totally freaked out. But I got some great replies, especially one from txshopper73 (kimberly i think) about a collapsed trachea.
In the evening I called my vet and he said not to worry and that these were most likely symptoms from kikko's previous case of pneumonia/bronchitis (that was the reason why I couldn't bring kikko home sooner). i couldn't shake the feeling after reading kimberly's reply. So i took him to the er vet, and through a lot of translators (lol) they took an x-ray and saw that his trachea was really small and most likely was collapsed due to the pneumonia/bronchitis. This is what I got from the docs at least.
So now kikko is at the hospital and will be there for a few days to a week.
I have a question though .... is a collapsed trachea a heritable disease, like was he born with this? Or did something happen to cause it either the pneumonia or maybe while he was playing with his toys or something? I just feel really sad and scared for him.