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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / March 2004Hiccups?
Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? It's kind of difficult to sneak up behind her and scare her, or have her hold her breath, or have her drink water, or many other granny remedies! Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha http://www.jhedge.com > Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? > > It's kind of difficult to sneak up behind her and scare her, or have > her hold her breath, or have her drink water, or many other granny > remedies! Cats with hiccups are soooo cute! Doesn't happen to Vino often but when it does, I just melt! But for Vino it only lasts for 2 or 3 hics so I don't have a remedy. -- Britta Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? > > It's kind of difficult to sneak up behind her and scare her, or have > her hold her breath, or have her drink water, or many other granny > remedies! Frank gets the hiccups pretty often. I don't have a remedy, but it usually passes fairly quickly. I do tell him to go drink some water, but he never listens. ;o)  SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki only cure that worked for mistoffelees was to put him over my shoulder and burp him as if he was a baby. he thought this way of getting a cuddle was great. thankfully his hiccups disappeared when he learnt he didnt have to gulp his food as he too big to burp now. Cati > Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://www.jhedge.com > Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? I didn't know cats could GET hiccups! >> Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? > >I didn't know cats could GET hiccups! Rocky used to, back when he first moved in with us. At the time he was pretty much a glutton, ate as fast and as much as he could. Now, he's slowed down, guess he's decided he can take his time and enjoy it. SignatureSteve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky stouchst@JUNKsirinet.net [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html >>> Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > pretty much a glutton, ate as fast and as much as he could. Now, he's > slowed down, guess he's decided he can take his time and enjoy it. Persia still gets them occasionally. It's pretty funny; she usually stretches out on my stomach when I'm reading a book and sometimes she'll start to 'hic'... it feels funny and I start giggling, which of course makes her look at me like I'm crazy. Hey, you're the one with the hiccups, goofy kitty! Jill > >> Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > pretty much a glutton, ate as fast and as much as he could. Now, he's > slowed down, guess he's decided he can take his time and enjoy it. That's probably why I've never encountered it. So far, all my cats have been "nibblers", and there's food available all the time, so they've no need to gulp it down too fast. > -- > Steve Touchstone, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html > Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html ---------------------<snip>---------------------- >That's probably why I've never encountered it. So far, all my cats have >been "nibblers", and there's food available all the time, so they've no >need to gulp it down too fast. Mine get wet food twice a day with crunchies left out in auto feeders all the time. You'd think there would be no need to pig out, but once every two weeks or so, a pile on the floor tells that one of them ate more in one sitting than you'd think a little pussycat could hold. Regards and Purrs, O J > Mine get wet food twice a day with crunchies left out in auto >feeders all the time. You'd think there would be no need to pig out, >but once every two weeks or so, a pile on the floor tells that one of >them ate more in one sitting than you'd think a little pussycat could >hold. One day years ago my old tomcat discovered that claws can open paper bags of dry cat food and gorged himself. I found the cat on his back with a fat belly and an "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" expression. He got over the belly ache and I got a large plastic jar to hold the cat food. > ---------------------<snip>---------------------- > >That's probably why I've never encountered it. So far, all my cats have [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > them ate more in one sitting than you'd think a little pussycat could > hold. You're not confusing that with the need to get rid of a hairball, are you? Mine generally wait until AFTER a full meal to eject both together. > Regards and Purrs, > O J >> ---------------------<snip>---------------------- >> >That's probably why I've never encountered it. So far, all my cats have [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >you? Mine generally wait until AFTER a full meal to eject both >together. Without getting too icky, no. On a similar note, don't forget to keep your keyboard covered.. >> Rocky used to, back when he first moved in with us. At the time he was >> pretty much a glutton, ate as fast and as much as he could. Now, he's [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >been "nibblers", and there's food available all the time, so they've no >need to gulp it down too fast. One thing that makes *me* hiccup is when I've yawned "incorrectly" (if that means anything). I haven't seen Betty get hiccups yet, but cats yawn so much, it's probably just a matter of time. > >> Rocky used to, back when he first moved in with us. At the time he was > >> pretty much a glutton, ate as fast and as much as he could. Now, he's [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > that means anything). I haven't seen Betty get hiccups yet, but cats > yawn so much, it's probably just a matter of time. I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for a long time. And they last forever. It's not unusual for me to have hiccups for 30-45 minutes 2-3 times per day. It drives me crazy!!! -- Britta Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for a > long time. And they last forever. It's not unusual for me to have hiccups > for 30-45 minutes 2-3 times per day. It drives me crazy!!! Oh, that's terrible! I get the hiccups pretty often, for no apparent reason, but I can usually make it go away by drinking some water. I hate the hiccups, I couldn't stand having them for that long! Commiserations and purrs. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki > > I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for > a [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > hiccups, I couldn't stand having them for that long! Commiserations and > purrs. Thanks, Marina. It's been going on my whole life, so I'm pretty used to it. But I'm so afraid that one time they just will never stop and I'll end up like that guy on Letterman who had them continuously for years! -- Britta Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for a >long time. And they last forever. It's not unusual for me to have hiccups >for 30-45 minutes 2-3 times per day. It drives me crazy!!! Have you tried sugar? While researching Natasha's hiccups, I read that one teaspoon of ordinary table sugar swallowed dry is supposed to cure hiccups in 19 out of 20 people. If they don't stop immediately, you're supposed to repeat the treatment up to 3 times at 2 minutes intervals. I found a really amusing list of all sorts of hiccup cures at http://www.well.com/user/smalin/hiccup.htm Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha http://www.jhedge.com > >I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for a > >long time. And they last forever. It's not unusual for me to have hiccups [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > I found a really amusing list of all sorts of hiccup cures at > http://www.well.com/user/smalin/hiccup.htm I've tried many cures, none of them work. I haven't tried the sugar thing, but would rather have the hiccups than consume sugar. I do find that one thing that works is to tell someone that I've got the hiccups. For some reason that makes them go away faster. However, when Dennis is gone for 6 weeks, I'm on my own much of the time and have no one to report my hiccups to! Oh well. It's not like that all the time anyway, I tend to have "phases" of more hiccups that last for a month or two, then less hiccups for a month or two. -- Britta (in a low-hiccup phase right now, thank goodness) Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > I've tried many cures, none of them work. I haven't tried the sugar thing, > but would rather have the hiccups than consume sugar. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I tend to have "phases" of more hiccups that last for a month or two, then > less hiccups for a month or two. Icky as it is, the sugar thing actually does work for me. I have to go and brush my teeth immediately, though. ;-) ------ Krista Who eats plenty of sugar, just not *by itself* "badwilson" <*bad*wilson@yahoo.com> wrote: > I do find that one thing that works is to tell someone that I've > got the hiccups. For some reason that makes them go away faster. > However, when Dennis is gone for 6 weeks, I'm on my own much of > the time and have no one to report my hiccups to! I do something similar to that, and it works when I do it by myself. What I do is, I demand a hiccup to happen *right now*. C'mon, hiccup, let's go, let's hear one. I just keep goading myself to produce one, and it never happens. I figure that I'm giving my hiccups stage fright. :) I figured out that what I'm actually doing is *concentrating* on my hiccups, and for some reason, that makes them go away. If I happen to lose concentration for some reason, such as being distracted momentarily, they will often come back. But only if I haven't been concentrating for a long enough time. The average time needed for them to go away is about 15-20 seconds. This even worked on someone else once - a friend of mine got hiccups, and she couldn't get rid of them. So I said to her, "Oh, you have the hiccups, do you? Then let's hear one!" I kept urging her to hiccup, and she couldn't. She was cured! I don't know why focusing completely on the hiccups makes them go away. But that might be what you're actually doing when you "report" your hiccups to someone else. Hmm.. I wonder if it would work to report them to RPCA when you get them? :) Or, you could just report it to yourself, mentally, or even out loud. I mean, who's going to think you're weird for telling yourself, "Britta, I have the hiccups." Vino? :) Joyce > "badwilson" <*bad*wilson@yahoo.com> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > mentally, or even out loud. I mean, who's going to think you're weird > for telling yourself, "Britta, I have the hiccups." Vino? :) Well, you have a point there. I'll tell Vino. "Vino, I have the hiccups. They're really bothering me, make them go away!" Vino will go "Mrrrrrp?" and all will be well in the world ;-) -- Britta Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >>I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for a >>long time. And they last forever. It's not unusual for me to have hiccups [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >hiccups in 19 out of 20 people. If they don't stop immediately, you're >supposed to repeat the treatment up to 3 times at 2 minutes intervals. If Britta does that two to three times per day, she would have to exercise even more than she already does in order to work off the calories. Besides, when Britta hiccups, Vino says, "Awwwww!" and just melts. > >>I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for a > >>long time. And they last forever. It's not unusual for me to have hiccups [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > calories. Besides, when Britta hiccups, Vino says, "Awwwww!" and just > melts. ROFL!!! You crack me up, Tak :-) -- Britta Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for a > long time. And they last forever. It's not unusual for me to have hiccups > for 30-45 minutes 2-3 times per day. It drives me crazy!!! This may sound silly, but if they're really annoying, you might try taking some singing lessons. Hiccups are actually spasms of the diaphragm, so the "diaphragmatic" breathing that classical singers use might help to control the spasms. (Which is the theory behind "holding your breath" as a cure for hiccups.) It usually works for me - and I used to get rather lengthy bouts of them, too. Just a nice, deep, "singer's" breath, then hold it (concentrating on keeping the diaphragm taut) and silently counting for as long as I could hold my breath usually did the trick. > -- > Britta > Check out pictures of Vino at: > http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > > I always get the hiccups if I stand up after having been sitting down for a > > long time. And they last forever. It's not unusual for me to have hiccups [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > taut) and silently counting for as long as I could hold my breath > usually did the trick. Oh, believe me, you don't want me to take singing lessons. I'm hopeless and the world would be a worse place with me singing in it. I don't even sing Happy Birthday because hearing myself sing makes me cringe like nails on a chalk board. But mind you, I might just scare myself right out of the hiccups ;-) -- Britta Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >> Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? > >I didn't know cats could GET hiccups! Spicey gets them. Suz Macmoosette Thank Heavens There's Only One =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= I've learned to not sweat the petty things, and not pet the sweaty things. >Anyone have a remedy for a cat with hiccups? > >It's kind of difficult to sneak up behind her and scare her, or have >her hold her breath, or have her drink water, or many other granny >remedies! Natasha got hiccups while I was giving her her hydration therapy, which scared me a little. They didn't last long. When we finished she ate and drank as usual (it's funny to me that a cat that's just received IV fluids is thirsty! ^_^), then started settling in for another nap. That's when she got hiccups again, and again they didn't last long. I'd never seen her have hiccups before, and she hasn't had any since! Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha http://www.jhedge.com |
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