Cure your snoring problem: Do Dogs Snore?

It’s late at night and after a long day the kids are settled and its time for bed. Once the dogs have come in its off down the hall to the bedroom. The big dog is only a puppy so she sleeps in the crate. The rest of the dogs jump up onto the bed to find a spot to sleep. A few minutes of reading and then the light goes out. But sometime during the night a low background noise begins to seep into your dream, waking you up, the sound is coming from the sleeping dog at the end of the bed. Does that sound familiar?

Interestingly of the nearly sixty percent of pet owners who permit their pets to sleep with them in their bedrooms most of them allow their cats on the bed but not their dogs. Yet pet owners, even ones with dogs in their bedrooms, tend to brush the snoring off claiming not to be disturbed by it. Studies have shown that twenty one percent of dogs snore. Most of those are the shorts faced or pushed in faced ones. Although the snoring may wake their owners up, it probably isn’t bothering most breeds of dogs.

Like human beings there may be more than one reason why your dog is snoring. The animal may be allergic to something in his surroundings. The allergic reaction can constrict the airway causing the snoring. There may be an obstruction like postnasal drip or a floppy bit of tissue in the throat; any of this can be the reason behind the snoring. None of these is a problem that you need to be concerned about.

Or it’s possible that your dog is overweight. Like people, excessive weight is a snorers curse. If you weigh too much you will snore, so will your canine companion. If you correct your dog’s weight the snoring should disappear unless your dog is one of the breeds with the pushed in faces. This list includes, but is not limited to, English Bulldogs, Pekinese, Pugs, Boston Terriers, Shih Tzu, Boxers and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels.

These beautiful animals have been bred to have a rather usual face shape. A short snout or pushed in face affects the nostril openings. It means these dogs are trying to push air with a constricted passageway. It would be like a human being trying to breathe using only twenty five percent of the space of their nostrils. If your dog is one of the breeds with a short face it takes a lot of work for them to get enough air; hence the snoring sound.

One concern with these breeds is that eventually the windpipe could actually flatten which of course would make it even harder for them to breath and increase their sleep time racket. There are some vets that are suggesting a little minor surgery when the dogs are still young that will open the nostrils, improve their breathing, not affect appearance and solve the snoring problem.

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