Lots of Snorting with Excitement?
 

Tatum snorts quite a bit when she gets excited, for example, when I come home and walk in the door or sometimes when I play with her. I've also noticed it while I'm standing up and giving her a treat and she is on the ground looking up at me....sometimes she will make the snorting sound then too. These are the ONLY times she does it though.

I have started coming down to her level and sitting on the floor when I give her treats so that she doesn't have to look up at me and this seem to help her from making the snorting sound...but again, she still does it when she gets excited about something.

I'm sure you all know the next question I am going to ask....do you think this could be CT? :cry: God, I don't even want to GO THERE...

She has already been diagnosed with a grade 3 LP in both back legs and if she were to be diagnosed with CT too, I'd probably just lose it all together :cry: My little girl doesn't need anymore problems :( I did mention this snorting thing to one of the nurses when she was at the vet being diagnosed with LP, but she just passed it off as being reverse sneezing...however, she never heard Tatum make this noise.

Tatum does have an EXTREMELY short nose/snot. It is very, very short - almost non existent at times it seems, LOL. I thought that Stedman's was short, but that was before I got Tatum. I don't know if her having a really short nose could have anything to do with it?

I will try and get a good video of her doing it and post it. I've got to get her excited to do it though and right now the little sweetheart's asleep :) I don't particularly LIKE having to make her do it, but I need to just so you guys can hear it and give me your opinion on it.

I've watched videos online of dogs with CT and their snorting and some of them sound like Tatum, but then again I've also watched videos online of dogs doing the reverse sneezing and some of them sounded like her also...so I am just plain confused :(

I will definitely have the vet look into this the next time we go back, but in the meantime I just wanted everyone's opinions on it.

Thanks in advance :)

Doesn't Tatum have the real short baby doll face like my Pixie? Pixie will do that to and she sort of snores or makes nasally sounds when sleeping. I was told it could be becase they have the shorter nose. Hope that's all it is.

My sis' chi snorts all the time... we call her miss piggy :) She has an non existant snout due to her "apple head" ... What exactly is a CT? I hope that nothing is wrong with her... Poor Tate :(

My MacTavish snorts as well. My Vet, who owns Yorkies, was not concerned. Mac also SNORES big time!

Daisy does it to when she gets really excited or when she drinks water, The vet has heard her and says it's reverse sneezing. I swear she is a camel lol she drinks the water as fast as she can and i think she snorts it LMAO!!!
I have heard said that if it's like a goose honk it's CT(collapsed trechea) Does she stop if you startle her? If i tell Daisy to stop she will lol. Hope all is well with her:)

Yes she does. Everyone that has seen her describes her as having the "baby doll face" - her features are very tiny and petite and the same goes for her nose/snout. It is just so so short, it's barely there :( Your little Pixie actually reminds me a whole lot of Tatum...I have always thought that :)

She doesn't seem to make any noise when she sleeps (she has before, but not too often) - it's mainly just when she gets really excited or when she tilts her head back to look up at something.

God I really do hope that her having a super short nose/snout is all it is :(

We call Bella Piglet! or miss piggy...she snorts when she is excited too. mostly when she is playing with daddy

I have 3 that do it. Suki has grown almost out of it. Toby Tyler still does it but not as much as when he was little and lil Gidget, well she does it all the time, cuz shes excited all the time. I call it snorking.:p

Haha, I call Tatum miss piggy ALL the time....because she snorts and because she really IS a little piggy LOL.

Here is a site that explains CT, which is short for Collapsed Trachea.

Tracheal collapse, collapsed trachea

I usually just tell Tatum in a soft voice to "calm down" but usually she can't stop just by me telling her that :(

Hehehe :D Have you ever asked your vet about Bella doing this? Just wondering what he/she said about it if so?

LOL snorking....that's perfect! :D I wish Tatum would just grow out of it...but I honestly don't know what it is :(

It's just so weird to me because Stedman never does this. He HAS done it before, but only a few times since we've had him for over 2 years now. Tatum does it every single time she is excited, or when she tilts her little head back...so it just makes me worry :( Course, I worry about everything! :rolleyes:

Brooke!!!I am such an idiot for not knowing that lol... Lola has a mild ct ... she making more gagging noises than snorting... or very loud coughing

Rosi does this too once in a while, i cover her nose with my hand and she is forced to open he mouth and breath then it stops, scares me too, she snores too.

LOL it's ok girl! :D Hmmm....well I don't know - Tatum's definitely sounds like "snorting" to me. When Stedman was a baby he had Kennel Cough and that really DID sound like a cough (well, a "hacking" cough)...but Tatum's definitely sounds like snorting...like a little piggy would do :(

I don't know...I am totally confused! :confused:

I will have to try this with Tatum! It really is scary...and sometimes she does it so much that I don't think she will be able to stop...but of course she always does.

Seymour does reverse sneezing...... Shelby does occasionally, but not like Seymour. It always happens during an exciting time. I usually pick Seymour up and calm him. It only takes a minute and he stops.
I think it sounds like Tat is reverse sneezing. Maybe you can get it on video sometime.

Oh WHEW....even just to read that someone thinks that it is reverse sneezing is a relief! :eek: Those are some very good words to hear, LOL.

I will definitely get it on video for everyone and post it here...I will try to do it tonight if possible :thumbup:

I hope she is ok!

Diddy does something when he gets really excited and it scares me to death. I don't know how to explain it. He makes a snorting sound and it seems like he is trying to breathe but can't.

I am interested in seeing your video to see if what they are doing is similar.

Thanks so much sweetie! Me too :(

It sounds like Diddy is doing the EXACT same thing that Tatum is doing. I too feel like she almost can't breath sometimes...it is VERY scary :(

I will try and get a video posted ASAP (I am going to try tonight) so be sure to check back on this thread....whenever I get one taken, I will post it here :)

Well, I didn't get around to taking a video night...sorry guys :( We had a big dilemma at our house a little while ago and I was kinda busy :eek:

Just incase anyone is interested, you can read about it here lol: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/blo...nightmare.html

Sigh.....:rolleyes:

I will try and get a video taken tomorrow!

Wrigley does the same thing! When we are gone and come back, she starts when we walk in the house. She has separation issues and I think she works herself up and gets so anxious.
She also does it when she has her head tilted up, especially like if you are giving her a treat and she's up on her hind legs and her head is really up. ( I hope that makes sense )
We rub her neck or touch water to her lips and she calms down. Sometimes I think it scares her as much as it does us!
She doesn't do it any other time either and she doesn't make noises when sleeps. I know it's a scary feeling, but obviously very common!

sounds like when MeiLing had a cold and i too thought maybe she had CT...took her to emergency vet too see what was going on...and he diagnosed her with a simple cold...hehe

Hi Brooke - ugh, I hate reverse sneezing - it really can be disturbing because, yes, it can seem like they're almost going to suffocate. It does sound like a reverse-sneeze-cycle to me. What I also find is that THIS time of year - IF your dog has any tendency toward this vulnerability - it worsens around allergy season (Check Pollen). Marcel has RS occasionally - but right now, with pollen off the scale - he's doing it more often - which makes sense bc if pollen bothers them, their throats/noses etc would be more irritated and vulnerable in general. That's my 2 cents - take it or leave it! :D

WHEW!!! Ok, well not that I'm glad that Wrigley does this too or anything, but I can honestly say that reading this made me feel SO much better because it sounds like she is doing the exact same thing as Tatum. Man, you just don't know what a RELIEF it is to know that Tatum isn't the only one doing this at these times...maybe it really IS common! :D Thank you SO MUCH!!! :hug:

I will still try and get a video just for the heck of it though. Of course, if I WANT her to do it she probably won't :rolleyes: but hopefully if I get her excited she will....heck, she always does!

Awww, poor little MeiLing :( Actually though, with Tatum I know that it isn't a cold because she has been doing this snorting thing for a long time now...and anyone who knows me and Tate knows that the poor girl has been to the vet a million times in her short little life, LOL...so it couldn't be a cold because they would have caught it...plus shes been on meds and this "snorting" thing doesn't go away :(

I'm praying that it is only reverse sneezing! :hands:

Oh thank you so much Ann....this makes total sense! As I said in the post above, Tatum has been doing this for a long time...and although I'm not really sure if she is doing it MORE often than normal....I do know that when she DOES do it, lately it seems that the "snorting" is LASTING longer....meaning that it is taking longer than it usually does for her to be able to stop. Hope that made sense... lol :p

I did just check the pollen levels here and right now we are medium-high 7.3 - 9.6 ....it doesn't surprise me. A few weeks ago we were in the red...HIGH :( She does have allergies so maybe this really could be contributing. I truly do hope that this is all it is....reverse sneezing and high pollen levels making it worse. I will try and get a video posted of her doing it so that everyone can hear her.

Thanks so much for the help girl! :hug:

My Shadow does this too. He also has a shorter snout. I know he doesn't have a CT, but I've recently read that these "snorting fits" could be a sign of a heart murmer. I really hope it's not, and I plan to have Shadow x-rayed for this at his next appointment. Has anyone else ever heard of this being the cause? He mainly just does it when he gets excited (like when I get home from work) or nervous (like the vets).

Oh GOD :eek: :( Now I am worried about it being a heart murmur! :( I am going to have to go read up on this :( And hopefully someone here will have more information on it too... :hands:

Joey does this too, and it scares me to death, the vet said it was nothing. It's definitely an excitement thing with Joey, I don't leave him much, but every time I do, I come home to a baby that seems like he's going to suffocate. I've tried many things, for example, ignoring him (this was sooooooooo hard). There are many articles on separation anxiety, and what to do for it, and that was the first suggestion, but it didn't really seem to help. Now, when I get home, I get down to his level, and talk to him calmly as possible. I try not to make a big deal of me coming home or act excited to see him, and then I try to detract him. He use to do this when his daddy got home, but it was never as intense, and it seems to have gotten better over time.

I do think they can read our feelings, and if we feel intense, they probably do too.