Something weird is going on with my dog. It's being going on for 2 weeks. Episodes only seem to occur first thing in the AM or right before bed at night.
Poms are kinda fragile dogs. Of course, does any true dog owner know how many things can go wrong with a breed till they get one.
This "Cough/Sneeze" sounded similar to Backward sneezes that she would do maybe once or twice in a long while. Well 2 weeks ago, they started to occur all the time. This raised a red flag for me big time. NOT NORMAL. I took her to the vet 2 weeks ago, they said to me she was perfectly healthy and that was that. Well 2 days later the vet called me back to see if Aspen's symptoms had gotten worse or better. I said they were the same. So we tried her on a med that I remembered her once being on for her little flair up a few years back.
Present day 2 weeks later.
Hence 2 videos I shot this morning of her.
$299 dollars later......Aspen gets 2 chest X rays and blood work taken. I first went to the vets office without Aspen, to just show the videos I had taken. The cough alarmed the vet and asked me to bring her in.
When they went to take her X rays, she started to make the sound again.
The vet thinks now it's 1 of 2 things. She could have Valley Fever. Or ........a Collapsable Trachea.
My heart sinks. I PRAY it isn't the second one because if severe enough, she'd have to have surgery to insert a ring in her airway to keep it open all the time. super scary. I'm not made of money. I barely recovered from her 2 grand Knee surgery when she was only six months old. IT WAS AWFUL.
Does anyone else's Pom do this? Or know of anyone that has a Pom that makes similar noises?
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