Barbie,<div><br></div><div>It sounds like you've had a pretty horrible year, and I'm so sorry for that. You should obviously have your vet check everything possible, but it's not necessarily anything bad. Basil came to me at age 8-ish, and he's had a cough from day 1. His foster mom said he had it with her, too. It sounds a lot like you describe - it mostly happens when he's been sleeping; he'll all of a sudden wake up and start coughing so hard that he needs to stand up. It happens maybe three or four times a day/night. He's been tested for every possible cause (kennel cough, heart problems, lung problems, allergies) and everything has come back negative. Several vets have told me that dogs can get the same "old person" cough that humans get. There's really no specific cause, so it can't be cured, only treated. Basil's vet has told me that if it gets really bad he can prescribe a cough suppressant, but since most of them contain steroids, and Basil already has bladder-control issues, we don't want to go there unless he seems really bothered by it. He's been with me three and a half years, and it's never gotten better, but also never gotten any worse.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Esther, Basil the cougher, and Waldo ATB<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:04 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DAISY7521@aol.com" target="_blank">DAISY7521@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4">Hello to everyone, I want to apologize for not reading or
writing to the drool very much anymore, ever since my dad and my sister and
Honey have passed this year, I guess I am just not really with it too much, and
I seem to have lost so much interest in things. One of them being the
computer, because I used to look for emails from my sister all the time. Now
that is gone.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">But I do have a question please, I have Scooby, my black lab,
12 yrs. old, and she is doing just wonderful, came back from the chiropractor
and she is like a pup again. My question is, she has developed a cough. She has
not been around other dogs really except about a month ago, at a dog park. we
haven't been back since.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">my vet listened to her heart and lungs, and said both seem
fine. however it is still there, so i have an appointment for her next Tuesday.
II am praying it is nothing serious, wonder if she picked something up from
another dog?</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Sometime she will be sleeping, and wake up with this deep
almost like a nauseating cough, and then go back to sleep. I hope someone has
some encouraging words for me. I thought maybe her heart could be skippiing a
beat or something. I am sure vet will want to take x rays..........thoughts
please??????</font></div>
<div><font size="4">I don't need anymore heartache in my life. this year, has not
been good for me at all..............thanks so much.......I am so sorry to all
of you, that have had to lose your prescious babies to the rainbow
bridge...........</font></div>
<div><font size="4">thanks.......Barbie, Dottie and Scooby......</font></div>
<div><font size="4">if someone wants to write to me directly, anytiime is
fine........I welcome your input.</font></div>
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