Do Your Piggies Cough Like This?

[TheCavySlave]

I decided to put this in behaviour because I don't think it's a health issue but does anyone else have piggies who cough while eating? Godfrey usually seems to eat too fast and coughs, just wondering if this is a common thing?

 

[Cavy Kung-Fu]

Yep it is!

 

[nana piggie]

Yes my girls do it, frightened the life out of me the first time i heard it.

 

[Cavy Kung-Fu]

Yes my girls do it, frightened the life out of me the first time i heard it.

Me too, still does

 

[Freela]

Mine do it sometimes when they are eating too quickly! I always end up running over... but they're fine, they just like to keep me on my toes!

 

[Betsy]

Mine sneeze too!

 

[Dindypig]

It's a choke it up reaction to eating too quickly. Our ChickChick is a regular.

 

[Mother Hubbard]

Yep, my Flossie pants does it.

 

[Wiebke]

It is not at all uncommon with greedy eaters that get going down the wrong way!

 

[Lorcan]

Comet does it regularly, lol. His own fault for trying to inhale his food instead of eating it.

 

[Mudpuppy]

Mine do too... but my older ones never did.
Scared me to start with as it sounded like a coughy sneeze so thought they were ill arghh

 

[Guinea Slave]

Yep mine do it as well. Just wait until they get hiccups, that will freak you out completely... it did me!

 

[Fweeper]

Mine do it too, Praline will attempt to inhale his dinner on a daily basis because he's a greedy little piglet who doesn't learn! Must agree on the hiccups being scary at first too, although I will admit...I did get a giggle out of his miffed face everytime he hic'd once I'd realised it wasn't serious!

 

[Lorcan]

Mine do it too, Praline will attempt to inhale his dinner on a daily basis because he's a greedy little piglet who doesn't learn! Must agree on the hiccups being scary at first too, although I will admit...I did get a giggle out of his miffed face everytime he hic'd once I'd realised it wasn't serious!

Comet hic'd one day right as I was picking him up. I don't know who got more of a fright tbh.

 

[Cavy Kung-Fu]

Hiccup? What does it sound like? I don't think I've ever heard it and now I'm scared

 

[Lorcan]

Hiccup? What does it sound like? I don't think I've ever heard it and now I'm scared

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say they sound terrifying, lol.

 

[Cavy Kung-Fu]

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say they sound terrifying, lol.

Omg I'm so glad I've never heard my girls do it I would be straight at the vets, I'm such a loser

 

[Gizmo&Darwin]

Gizmo coughs once in a while when he wolfs down too much food at once and my daughter has heard him sneeze once. We haven't caught our baby boar doing either yet.

 

[Fweeper]

Hiccup? What does it sound like? I don't think I've ever heard it and now I'm scared

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say they sound terrifying, lol.

It's a sort of...full body hit of a squeak/cough? Much like in a human, tbh! Praline hates it, but as I have patiently explained to him many times whilst being blithely ignored, if you insist on shovelling food in practically whole, this is what you get! *snort*

 

[Guinea Slave]

I hate the hiccup. It's hard to explain but their whole body seems to heave upwards and then as explained they make this weird sound for a few seconds. I hasten to add if they do it a lot or for long periods then you should go to the vets but Its usually because the greedy monkeys are gobbling food too quick!

 

[TheCavySlave]

Oh my God I think I heard a hiccup once! Godfrey's whole body kind of went *hic* and it was a sneezecoughsqueak thing. Terrifying!

 

[Cavy Kung-Fu]

I'll have to watch out for that