Do kittens hiccup?

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wombn - 12 Jul 2003 08:15 GMT

Timmy seems to hiccup quite a bit.

(3 months old)

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Niels Peter - 12 Jul 2003 09:29 GMT

> Timmy seems to hiccup quite a bit.
>
> (3 months old)

Has Timmy been dewormed?

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Priscilla Ballou - 12 Jul 2003 15:52 GMT

> Timmy seems to hiccup quite a bit.
>
> (3 months old)

My Caley is a hiccupper. When she was a kitten and half-grown cat she'd
often have bouts of hiccups. Now she's an adult, it's much less common,
but she still does get them from time to time.

Priscilla

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wombn - 13 Jul 2003 00:29 GMT

>> Timmy seems to hiccup quite a bit.
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>often have bouts of hiccups. Now she's an adult, it's much less common,
>but she still does get them from time to time.

nod. ok. I won't worry about it too much then.

I get them alot myself and it's just an annoyance, as far as I know.

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Brandy?Alexandre - 12 Jul 2003 18:56 GMT

wombn <wombnhearmeroar@comcast.net>, with thought and calculation, said
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> Timmy seems to hiccup quite a bit.
>
> (3 months old)

I can't tell you about kittens, but Kami gets the hiccups quite often.
She also burps on occasion which is quite funny. :) Nothing audible,
but the tell-tale neck extension cracks me up.

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wombn - 13 Jul 2003 00:28 GMT

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 17:56:27 -0000, "Brandy Alexandre"
<brandy@kamikaze.org > wrote:

>wombn <wombnhearmeroar@comcast.net>, with thought and calculation, said
>in rec.pets.cats.health+behav:
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>She also burps on occasion which is quite funny. :) Nothing audible,
>but the tell-tale neck extension cracks me up.

:-) That's our Bruno dog.... the burping, that is.

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Yngver - 15 Jul 2003 18:08 GMT

>Timmy seems to hiccup quite a bit.
>
>(3 months old)

I wouldn't worry, but you might want to mention it to the vet next time you see
him/her. When one of our cats was a kitten, she did hiccup occasionally. My vet
said it was normal for kittens and cats to get the hiccups sometimes. Some get
it more than others. I think with young kittens, it can be from eating too
fast.

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wombn - 15 Jul 2003 20:32 GMT

>>Timmy seems to hiccup quite a bit.
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>it more than others. I think with young kittens, it can be from eating too
>fast.

ahh eating too fast yes. that could be it.

The kittens all go spastic when I give them canned food. Taz growls
at everyone and wolfs his plate down, then goes and tries to steal the
others'. So I'll bet Timmy's trying to forestall that.

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Yngver - 16 Jul 2003 18:53 GMT

>ahh eating too fast yes. that could be it.
>
>The kittens all go spastic when I give them canned food. Taz growls
>at everyone and wolfs his plate down, then goes and tries to steal the
>others'. So I'll bet Timmy's trying to forestall that.

Probably. Hiccuping is better than the other frequent symptom of eating too
fast, which is regurgitation. With one of our cats, it isn't so much that she
likes the food so much, but that she can't bear the thought of the other cat
getting it, so she gulps hers down fast so she can try to steal some from the
other cat. Then a few minutes later, it all comes back up again (sometimes).
Feeding in separate rooms helps.

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