hiccups

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hiccups; Anyone else had this happen
Topic Started: Mar 26 2009, 04:36 PM (85 Views)
JACKS DAD	Mar 26 2009, 04:36 PM Post #1
Squeaker Posts: 11 Group: Full Members Member #125 Joined: October 11, 2005	Hi all, have any of you out there had any issues with your lads or lasses having hiccups, my boy (same one as the fits) keeps getting them at night, keeps us up all night as he wines to go out and eat grass, comes back in sleeps for half hour and then repeats the whole process... Regards Andy



Tafia	Mar 26 2009, 05:34 PM Post #2
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 5,822 Group: Full Members Member #134 Joined: November 17, 2005	I've never come across. Did a quick google search and it turn's out to be quite common - not necessarily related to any other condition that eating their food too quickly!



zandd	Mar 26 2009, 06:00 PM Post #3
Moderator Posts: 22,625 Group: Moderators Member #48 Joined: February 5, 2005	Not one I've come across either,certainly sounds like eating too fast would do this.Try putting something in his bowl when feeding him so he has to work to get the food and can't gulp it all down at once.A stone would probably do it,not if he's a stone-eater though :lol:



Sky	Mar 26 2009, 06:35 PM Post #4
Chatterbox Posts: 1,513 Group: Full Members Member #136 Joined: November 23, 2005	Yes, Pete gets hiccups regularly probably because he eats his food soooooo quick but they pass and we don't really worry about them much, he survives like the rest of us. Never known him to have issues in the middle of the night though, it's usually when we are all sitting watching the TV :lol:



Laura	Mar 26 2009, 07:38 PM Post #5
One of the regulars Posts: 192 Group: Full Members Member #730 Joined: October 14, 2008	Aww poor guy. Meg had really violent night hiccups as a puppy but she grew out of them. I used to rub her back, made her fall assleep and got rid of the hiccups (something we used to do with the toddlers when I worked in a nursery!) Eating too fast is probably the main reason so anything you can do to stop that might help. Good luck



Linda & Fred	Mar 27 2009, 06:29 PM Post #6
Chatterbox Posts: 705 Group: Full Members Member #571 Joined: November 28, 2007	All I can suggest is you bring in some grass for him! Or get to the garden centre, get on 'offcut' of turf, plant it in a seed tray and leave it in the bedroom - keep it watered! :woohoo:



Laura	Mar 27 2009, 06:53 PM Post #7
One of the regulars Posts: 192 Group: Full Members Member #730 Joined: October 14, 2008	:yay: ooh brill idea! I got some 'cat grass' seeds for my cat from the supermarket, mud in a small litter tray, chuck seeds in, one week later an inch of grass! It's about half a foot now and dogs and cat love it.



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