Breathing Problems

[Rat face 1,655]

i have a young bitch on at the mo and she seems to be having breathing problems, its a bit hard to explain when i have her running lose she can sound like a pig snorting when breathing and sometimes struggles to get her breath back, but other wise she seams spot on,fit strong and healthy. i have never seen this before in a dog just wonder if any of you guys have experienced this and is there anything i can do to remedy it, or do you think it could be a genetic thing? any info would be appreciated

 

Adam

Edited June 5, 2017 by Rat face

[Dabhand 887]

im sure dilly dog explained about something similar before bud elongated palate pop him a pm sounds similar

hope this helps

[stonewall 1,913]

i have a young bitch on at the mo and she seems to be having breathing problems, its a bit hard to explain when a have her running lose she can sound like a pig snorting when breathing and sometimes struggles to get her breath back, but other wise she seams spot on,fit strong and healthy. i have never seen this before in a dog just wonder if any of you guys have experienced this and is there anything i can do to remedy it, or do you think it could be a genetic thing. any info would be appreciated

 

Adam

 

 

u could get her scoped if u new an equine vet.i see it done all the time with horses. is their a scope that small enough thats the thing.all u can do is ask a vet.

Edited June 5, 2017 by stonewall

[FairLead 19]

Just a thought ....lungworm ?

[Rat face 1,655]

im sure dilly dog explained about something similar before bud elongated palate pop him a pm sounds similar

hope this helps

just looked this up and it dose sound very similar to what the bitch has

[bull mcabe 595]

Is there bull blood in the bitch? If so this sometimes can throw a pup with breathing issues when bred tight. Our blood occasionly throws a few pups sounding like yours which we try not too breed off but I've never really seen it to affect them too much except in warm summer months. The ones we breed with such traits I have them exceptionly fit when working and would have them just carrying slightly less weight when working than their littermates . It's an obvious fault in the blood line but it only affects the odd few and never really hampers them working. Not ideal but we never breed from bad examples. This may help you

Edited June 5, 2017 by bull mcabe

[matt1979 766]

Difficult without seeing the dog but have had a dog with reverse sneezing (not a terrier) and it's quiet common in dogs and sounds similar to your description google it plenty of info on it atb

[shaneg 2,578]

Seen it in a Russell dog a few years back snorting like a pig on a lead and after a dig. Would go through you

[rob284 1,682]

Reversed sneezing I think its called. Edit, already been mentioned.

[Rat face 1,655]

I would say she dose have a fair bit of bull in her she looks like a small staff. I brought the bitch in so I can't be 100 percent on her breeding. And I do have her a bit heavy at the mo.

 

She didn't seem so bad during the season but still was snorting but during this warm weather she has got worse.

 

I will try get a bit of weight off her and improve on her fitness as well see if she improves

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

If it's any consolation mate I have lived with it on and off all my life with dogs and sounds a lot worse than it is .Fitness calms it, stress exacerbates it .I've bred away from it only to reintroduce it through another avenue .Get the weight off and you see a marked improvement .

[Rat face 1,655]

Nice one for that buddy. I'll trim her down a bit

[neil cooney 10,416]

Is there bull blood in the bitch? If so this sometimes can throw a pup with breathing issues when bred tight. Our blood occasionly throws a few pups sounding like yours which we try not too breed off but I've never really seen it to affect them too much except in warm summer months. The ones we breed with such traits I have them exceptionly fit when working and would have them just carrying slightly less weight when working than their littermates . It's an obvious fault in the blood line but it only affects the odd few and never really hampers them working. Not ideal but we never breed from bad examples. This may help you

Bull, what sort of bull are you talking about there ?

I couldn't think of a type of dog that wind is wanted more than a true bull type. If someone is using something like an English Bull ,which has never been bred for wind, then I'd have no sympathy but if someone breeds bull into their terriers from a good honest line of bull types then lack of wind should NOT be blamed on the bull blood side of things IMO.

Some lines of bulldogs have more wind than others but they all have plenty of it.

The only time in bulldogs I've ever seen one have the symptoms that Ratface has described is when one has had damage done to it's windpipe and that's usually when someones listened to the stupid advice of choking a dog off. Sadly some still do that including in the terrier world too.

Edited June 5, 2017 by neil cooney

[bull mcabe 595]

Old Staffordshire blood would be in our dogs very far back hasn't been added in the 17 years I have this line but they are bred relatively tight so the percentage would have remained fairly similar with a good number of years. Blood going back to one dog in particular that was very bull influenced a good number of years occasionly throws the wind/breathing problems and was only really encountered after a certain cross. I've been around staffs a good long time never to breed into my terriers before you jump on that bandwagon and I've often encountered such problems in them such as wind problems and suffering in the heat and general breathing problems. I have an old staff bitch sitting next to me as I write this that the mrs rescued from the pound who is worst bull specimen I've ever encountered for breathing issues so unfortunately it is there. Obviously a fault of the breeders as I know game dogs like the pbt of course rely heavily on there wind. Keeping a line tight would only highlight such an issue if it was unfortunately there in the first place neil.

Edited June 5, 2017 by bull mcabe

[Rat face 1,655]

Just hope it doesn't affect her work that's all she's only young and she won't have done much longer than a hour to ground only really had her in puppy spots in her first season. It didn't really seem to bother her so much last season tho. Been given some good advice off lads on here gonna trim her down a bit and get her fitness up see if that helps

Edited June 5, 2017 by Rat face