Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where are you located, OP? I go to Fox Chapel animal hospital in Germantown and the vets there are great. Before that I used to go to Hickory Ridge animal hospital in Columbia, also great. Both are independently-owned practices.

I’m in Fairfax and I go to Town and Country, which was great for decades, but is now absolutely impossible to get into. They have a sister practice (Columbia Pike Animal Hospital) that does urgent care and between the two, I still can’t ever get my dog in. They should have stopped accepting new clients a couple years ago, but they don’t care.

Can’t you just call and talk to the vet? Our practice let us do that before coming in. If they think it’s a very serious condition of course they would squeeze you in.

My dog had a strange cough, kind of like a reverse sneeze, no other symptoms. Turned out to be heart worms (she was a rescue and several from her cohort that they moved up to DC from the south tested positive after adoptions went through and initially testing negative). Check for heart worms in addition to kennel cough (hope it’s the latter). BTW, after treatment which is spendy, she’s fine.

Kennel cough

Our lab mix had this. At first the vet thought it was acid reflux and recommended some acid reducers (she recommended some human ones we bought at a pharmacy). We tried that for a while and it didn't work -- our dog does have some damage to his trachea that we discovered when he had some unrelated surgery recently.
So it could be many things, but acid reflux is pretty common and is easy to treat, so fingers crossed that is what it is.

For my dads dog, these symptoms turned out to be a heart issue. Dog was put on meds and lived a long happy life till age 14.

Best of luck to both of you, OP.

It may be a heart issue. That what is was with our dog, sorry. Get your pup checked out.

Is it possible it’s a reverse sneeze? My dog does this occasionally and it’s a weird sound.

That happened to my 6YO Doberman - turns out it was fluid around her heart. That is how I found out she had heart issues.

I’m really sorry that you’re suffering health problems and now your dog is coughing. I hope your dog’s cough goes away and you recover completely very soon. I used to suffer from bouts of tachycardia caused by superfluous heart tissue that created a pathway that recirculated the electrical impulses in my heart. I had a cardiac ablation 11 years ago and a second one a year ago. I know what living with these episodes is like.

Hugs to you and your pooch.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I haven’t walked the dog recently because I’m dealing with tachycardia issues after having Covid. Just standing up sends my heart rate into the 150s. But instead of judging the fact that I’m dealing with that by making sure my dog gets exercise while I don’t, can we stick to the issue at hand? I’m doing the best I can right now. Good grief.

Ours had a collapsed trachea when that happened. That's more of a small dog issue though, I think.

Anonymous wrote:Where are you located, OP? I go to Fox Chapel animal hospital in Germantown and the vets there are great. Before that I used to go to Hickory Ridge animal hospital in Columbia, also great. Both are independently-owned practices.

I’m in Fairfax and I go to Town and Country, which was great for decades, but is now absolutely impossible to get into. They have a sister practice (Columbia Pike Animal Hospital) that does urgent care and between the two, I still can’t ever get my dog in. They should have stopped accepting new clients a couple years ago, but they don’t care.

Where are you located, OP? I go to Fox Chapel animal hospital in Germantown and the vets there are great. Before that I used to go to Hickory Ridge animal hospital in Columbia, also great. Both are independently-owned practices.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she’s got Covid

Coughing is a symptom of covid in dogs.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/covid-19/pets.html

OP, did you isolate from your dog?

No, isolating was not possible, but I had Covid a little over a month ago, and that would likely have occurred before now.

And you all are completely insufferable. My dog is totally happy and it is absolutely impossible for it to cause a major decline in her health if I am unable to walk her for a short period of time and I choose to exercise her in other ways. You really think that running around a half acre instead of walking around the block is a federal crisis? I understand the value in walking her and I will resume when I am able. Let it go. You won’t convince me I’m a bad owner. I’m just not.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe she’s got Covid

Coughing is a symptom of covid in dogs.

https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/covid-19/pets.html

OP, did you isolate from your dog?

If you really understood anything about dogs, you'd have asked someone else to walk your dog.

For the moment, it doesn't seem as if any of this is life-threatening. I agree with 16:53.