What is a Reverse Sneeze?
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 pocking 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 to often. I’d say that he’ll probably have an episode once ever 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 our borkie 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.