Your pet dog is a wonderful companion, but it may turn to be a dreadful one at night due to its snoring. You never might have even thought that your dog could snore and drive you crazy. The main cause for dog s snoring is very similar to the humans in the sense that they also suffer from air passage block due to relaxation of the throat muscles during their sleep.
Snoring in dogs can happen due to many reasons that block upper airway and few breeds are more vulnerable to such kind of blockage in their upper airway. For example, the cute little nosed Pugs and Pekingese are more likely to get affected by upper airway blockage at frequent intervals than their long nosed counterparts.
Like in humans, allergies can also cause snoring in dogs and out of the various allergies that affect, pollen and tobacco smoke can cause irritation and result in dog snoring during sleep. And body overweight can also result in extra muscles around the neck area of the dog thus blocking free air movement and result in snoring.
How to Stop your Dog from Snoring?
In order to stop your dog from snoring and disturbing you from your bed, you can try few easy steps initially. For example, instead of allowing your dog to sleep by your side or near your bed, let your dog sleep in a basket or in place where it can curl up and sleep. Curling up during sleep can help dogs in expanding their air passageway and this will result in lesser snoring or even total stoppage of snoring in your dog.
If the reason for your pet dog s snoring is its overweight, then devise plans to make your dog to shed those extra pounds of body weight and that in turn will see your dog stopped from snoring. You can walk your dog additionally for extra 30 minutes a day and you can also contact your veterinarian for able guidance in this regard.
As said earlier, allergies caused due to pollen and cigarette smoke can trigger snoring in your dog and hence try to avoid your dog from getting exposed to such allergens. Try to walk your dog when the pollen particles are less in air, say during noon time, and if you are a smoker, try to avoid smoking with your dog around.
If in any case your dog continues to snore even after your above said treatments, then take your dog to a qualified veterinarian and seek professional guidance.
Seeking Timely Assistance of a Veterinarian
Unlike in humans, snoring in dog need not necessarily be a serious health-related issue of your pet and in case your dog snores beyond a particular decibel level, it is better you get your dog examined by qualified veterinarian at the earliest possible. The time tag is insisted only for your convenience, after all who will not be interested in a good night s sleep?
Dog snoring is certainly a pain and if you allow your dog to snore without bothering to treat it, soon you will be taking over the job of guarding your home at night in the place of your dog.
[tags]Snoring Dogs, Allergy, Health Issue[/tags]