My little chow mix puppy is breathing heavily?
I thought at first he was just very hot, considering that me and my husband took him to the park today, so I brought him inside. The thing is, he has been inside since then (about 5 and a half hours now) and he is still panting. The really weird thing is he doesn’t stick his tongue out, he is just breathing through his nose. I was wondering if this is normal behavior, since he has a very thick coat, or if I should get him checked out. I am pretty worried about him.
Another thing is, he twitches really bad in his sleep and he snores and whines.
Help?
Well, he doesn’t really run and play, that’s one of the things that really worries me.
He walks about 5 steps then he lays down. When we went to the park, he just walked over to the river, drank, ran around a little bit, then went to sleep.
His siblings are also more playful than he is. They will run and play for (at the very least) 10 minutes straight, mine?
He walks about 5 feet then plops on the ground and snores.
Dogs like Chows, or any other breeds that are brachiocephalic (what you would consider a pushed in nose), can sometimes have exercise intolerance because of how their airways are developed. It’s always a possibility that he cannot tolerate that much exercise and that his trachea might slightly collapse when he does exercise. This isn’t really a serious problem, just something to be aware of as an owner. Are you sure he didn’t get a stick or anything else stuck in his airway possibly while he was playing earlier? If he is still breathing like that so far afterwards I might wonder about something like that. It’s always possible that he’s just hot, but 5 and 1/2 hours later he should have calmed down and cooled off from that. Dogs pant to cool off, just as we sweat, so if he’s not panting its probably not from being hot. I would suggest getting his airways checked out just to be on the safe side.
As for the twitching in the sleep, he’s dreaming. Some dogs will run, sniff, bark, whine, etc in their sleep. It’s totally normal, no different then you dreaming and its nothinig to be worried about. Just think of it as something cute he does, nothing to be worried about at all.
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