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Coughing/gagging?

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Our golden agouti, Chunky Monkey has been coiughing or gagging. When she is eating occasionally she starts making a croaking noise and then makes one big coughing sound. I can only relate it to the sounds of a cat coughing up a fur ball. It is quite scary when she does it as it sounds like she is choking.

Any ideas what it could be?
 
i think she IS choking. what does she eat? anything that contains seeds? gilbert has done this before too, it is quite concerning. i now learned not to buy dry foods with seeds or colored bits.
 
Mine do this too - if it is when she is eating then it's probably because she's eaten too quickly. They can also get heaving hiccups which is very scary for us humans but apparantly not a problem to the piggies. I remember when we first got Gerty & she did it - I thought she was going to die :... - she was fine though :)) Peter Gurney has written about it.
 
It tends to be a "greedy pig" thing, especially with youngsters!

Mine have had the "heaving hiccups" thing, it is worrying and I'm on watch when one of them does it, but they sort it out themselves very quickly.
 
pompypigs5 said:
Mine do this too - if it is when she is eating then it's probably because she's eaten too quickly. They can also get heaving hiccups which is very scary for us humans but apparantly not a problem to the piggies. I remember when we first got Gerty & she did it - I thought she was going to die :... - she was fine though :)) Peter Gurney has written about it.
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I was the same the first time Jess did it - I was ready to phone the vets - I really thought she was really sick - even when she stopped I sat and watched her for about an hour in case it happened again - then I consulted my Peter Gurney book and calmed down!

It is scary though the first time it happens :...
 
Jennifer does this, she scoffs her food so fast she sometimes she chokes, but she never learns! *sigh*
 
a couple of mine do it too! especially bessie who has sight probs,i think she thinks "ok ill eat it all now so biscuit doesnt scoff it " and ends up half choking!
the worst of it is biscuit waits til bessie finished eating before she even goes over to the bowl lol! xx
 
It definately seems to be when she is guzzling food down so I shouldn't panic then. She is not showing signs of anything else and we never out seeds in x
 
here we are/......"heaving hicups
these cause much alarm when inexperienced owners see them fr the first time. the animal apears rto be heaving , prior to vomiting . the whole body is rocked and retching comes from way down below the diaphragm . it usualy stops abruptly when the guinea pig gives a little coagh.:)
 
I think everybody's answering the choking bit. But when they sneeze/cough it's just bits of dust off woodshavings (if you use them) otherwise they just do it normally. If they go off food and seem to be not themselves, then I'd start to worry but I think he/she's perfectly fine.:) Also make sure if they are indoor/outdoor piggies it stays like that otherwise the changes of tempertures effect them. If they are happily popcorning (doing random jumps in the air, which is quite funny come to mention it) then they're fine. Popcorning is basiclly the hiccups, it means they're happy.:)) I really wouldn't worry though.
 
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