puppy with collapsing trachea

[mindy10]

I feel your pain. As you know Sammie has the same cough. Sometimes after he drinks but sometimes when he is just playing. I worry to if he is showing signs at 6 months will it progress fast and he will be gone by 3 years old!! I did have a dog with CT. She lived to be 12. She would have the little cough at a young age and them by 8 she was fainting from it. At 12 had to be put down. But The Vet never diagnosed her with CT so I never treated it. If I treated it she could of lived longer. Just now I am realizing that she had CT. The vet told me she was not fainting she was having seizures but I beg to differ. I hope your puppy and my puppy don't have CT and if they do it will not progress and stay the same. I have done a lot of research myself and some people say there dogs has never progressed and some said they have so I guess only time will tell with our puppies.

[kreuer]

Originally Posted by mindy10

I feel your pain. As you know Sammie has the same cough. Sometimes after he drinks but sometimes when he is just playing. I worry to if he is showing signs at 6 months will it progress fast and he will be gone by 3 years old!! I did have a dog with CT. She lived to be 12. She would have the little cough at a young age and them by 8 she was fainting from it. At 12 had to be put down. But The Vet never diagnosed her with CT so I never treated it. If I treated it she could of lived longer. Just now I am realizing that she had CT. The vet told me she was not fainting she was having seizures but I beg to differ. I hope your puppy and my puppy don't have CT and if they do it will not progress and stay the same. I have done a lot of research myself and some people say there dogs has never progressed and some said they have so I guess only time will tell with our puppies.

It just sucks not knowing for sure. I have watched soooo many videos of any type of dog cough imaginable and I still cant tell for sure what it sounds like. The reverse sneeze is pretty distinctive in my opinion, but CT is different. In all the CT videos I've watched it seems like no 2 coughs sound exactly the same. Some sound high pitched, some low, some more like a honk, some not. It also sounded like Kennel cough, but I know for sure it's not that. This elongated soft palate thing is new to me, but I cant really find much on it as far as the sounds the pup makes besides snoring. I guess only time will tell, and we just have to hope for the best.

[windwalker]

Personally I would wait till there are definite signs, sometimes the cure can be worse then the disease. Every pup I've ever had has coughed after rough play or excitement or just hair or whatever from licking or chewing on rag toy at least once in a while. You should be careful around Yorkies neck anyway, just like you need to be careful with their bones as they are small critters and somewhat delicate.
I play rough with Ginger as she's almost 7 lbs now and I worked up to it slow to build her muscle mass, she coughs once in a while but to me its normal after 10 minutes of growling and barking. Now if she went around coughing and honking with no cause I could think of I would worry till I found a reason.

[mindy10]

Sammie went to play with my mother in laws dog yesterday and she has a dashaund. He is 6 and when we where there he coughed after drinking and then after playing with Sammie. She said he always does that and she does not have collapse trachea as far as she knows.

[mindy10]

Thanks Windwalker that makes sense.

[kreuer]

Originally Posted by windwalker

Personally I would wait till there are definite signs, sometimes the cure can be worse then the disease. Every pup I've ever had has coughed after rough play or excitement or just hair or whatever from licking or chewing on rag toy at least once in a while. You should be careful around Yorkies neck anyway, just like you need to be careful with their bones as they are small critters and somewhat delicate.
I play rough with Ginger as she's almost 7 lbs now and I worked up to it slow to build her muscle mass, she coughs once in a while but to me its normal after 10 minutes of growling and barking. Now if she went around coughing and honking with no cause I could think of I would worry till I found a reason.

Thank you. Even my vet said to wait since right now it is not happening all the time and is not effecting her in any way. But if it starts to get worse, I will get it checked again. I love YorkieTalk, but I think it has made me a more paranoid person. I hear about all these bad things that can happen and every little thing I see with Lexi I automatically think the worse! It's like being sick and googling symptoms I might have and seeing a list of possible things ranging from nothing major to you could die tomorrow, lol.