My Yorkie Bichon Mix

I recently discovered a great site for follow yorkie (and yorkie mix breed) dogs called YorkieTalk.com.  There are some really nice people and is very active.  I posted a “hello…we are new here post” and got quite a few responses over the next few hours.  That is a pretty good sign the community is active and doing well.   They have forums, photo galleries, live chats and many other great areas to the site.

On some other notes…Since I’ve been home pretty much 24/7 for the last 5 weeks because of my foot surgery, I think Jack has completely gotten used to it and has permanently affixed himself to my side.  He lays on my lap all day long, follows me from room to room and won’t even go outside with my wife unless I make like I’m going to out as well.  He’ll run up to me and stare at me until I come with.  Very cute, but he is going to be in for a rude awakening when I have to go back to work in a little over a week.

I will say that if we didn’t have him, my time at home would have been much harder.  He allows me to take play breaks, even though he still wants me to chase him around the kitchen table.  I can do that, but i’m VERY slow to say the least.  I’ve resorted to getting an old towel from the linen closet and playing tug-a-war until he tires.  Nothing gets his lower jaw quivering like a fresh towel.  I’ll have to try and capture, on video, when his jaw quivers with excitement.

I’m off to Chili’s with the Wife.  Have a good weekend everyone!

Over the two years we’ve had Jack, he will occasionally start having these episodes where it sounds like he is having trouble breathing.  His body gets stiff, back arches and he makes this weird sound.  After doing a little pokeing around on the internet it turns out that some dogs have this reflex called Reverse Sneezing.  It isn’t bread specific and at least, in Jack, doesn’t happen too often.  I’d say that he’ll probably have an episode once every few months, but it’ll happen a few times over an hour or so.

Jack will stop after a few minutes, but to help your dog stop reverse sneezing a little quicker you have to get them to swallow.  An easy trick for doing this is to cover their nose and that’ll make your pup swallow.  I’ve tested this out on Jack and it works very well.  He will swallow and the reverse sneezing will usually come to an end.  I don’t believe there is a cure for it, but we are going to show the video to our vet when Jack goes in for his yearly checkup next month.