Did My Dog Just Cough?  posted January 15th, 2011 by   • Share
I just survived my first, and hopefully only, major cold of this
winter season. It was a beauty. Cough, congestion, stuffy nose,
laryngitis-the works. I did receive a good deal of sympathy for
it, but nobody panicked. Nobody rushed me to the hospital. Now,
give any one of those symptoms to a dog and stand back. Let a
sweet-faced canine issue one wheeze and panic ensues. I am not
making light of this phenomenon as I am as guilty as the rest of
the dog moms and dads in this world.  So what is it that makes
it so much worse when a dog comes down with a bug? Well, I think
the first issue is that our dogs have a really hard time
describing their symptoms and telling us where it hurts. That
makes us all feel just a bit helpless because, well, our dogs
depend on us to make everything ok. Then there’s the fear that
if you ignore something now, it may well later-say midnight on
any major holiday-turn into something that inspires a costly-
though-we-wouldn