Noisy Breathing at Times
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Noisy Breathing at Times
Submitted by LindseyVincent on April 21, 2010 - 12:34amI've noticed that Cartman can be a noisy breather at times. He's never had any issues with trying to catch his breath--he just sometimes gets noisy if he's excited or stressed. I've had his pallate and nares checked by 3 different vets, and they have told me that his pallate is fine and that he's just extra loud. Some days he's perfectly quiet. No matter whether he's noisy or not, he has tons of energy and he's able to go on walks every single day. He's never had any respiratory infections or distress. My question is this--what can be causing the noise if the palate is fine and his nares are fine? Any thoughts?
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Sounds like a plan
I'll try this out and see if this helps his noisy breathing. I hope it does. Thanks Ela1ne.
Well, they don't seem to be attacks
The vets have told me that he's able to get plenty of air, and that he's just an extra noisy breather. I've had him checked for a collapsing trachea, and he doesn't have one. I would like to find out what could be causing this, because there has to be a root to this problem. For instance, yesterday he was noisy, but today he's breathing as quiet as my Chihuahua. He's even asleep behind me now and he's not even snoring. Yesterday he was snoring and snorting all day long. Could this be from dry weather perhaps?
Perhaps some weakening of structure other than his palate
but whatever, he sounds like he's able to recover with some panic and best suggestion is to keep him relaxed by using soothing voice and calm slow motions when he's having one of these 'attacks'. Has anyone ever spoken about spasms of his windpipe?
This would be an easy thing to test out.
A cool water vaporizer runs aboutt $20 at Walmart, and you can try to set that up at night in the room where she sleeps...not having the vapor pointing directly at her, but just pointing upward in the room several feet away from where she sleeps. Its enough to add moisture to the air...its used for little kids so should be no problem for your bully.