# Do animals get hiccups?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-get-hiccups/84610>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 30, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-get-hiccups/84610 "2001-09-30T07:34:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-get-hiccups/84610/1 "2001-09-30T07:34:55Z")

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I’ve had dogs before, but none of them ever exhibited having hiccups. Not that I noticed.

But now we have a Pug puppy (10 weeks old as of 09-29-01).  
I swear he has the hiccups. WTF?

Is this normal? None of our other dogs had hiccups. At least not that we noticed.

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**Author:** ![Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toaster)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-get-hiccups/84610/2 "2001-09-30T08:03:59Z")

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My dogs hiccup all the time. It’s as harmless as ours. Not horribly common but nothing to find odd.

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**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-get-hiccups/84610/3 "2001-09-30T08:18:54Z")

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Zen gets the hiccups on rare occasions, much to my amusement. I could only wish that my cat had the opportunity to suffer such an indignity.

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**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2001, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-animals-get-hiccups/84610/4 "2001-09-30T10:56:58Z")

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My two Old English Sheepdogs get the hiccups.  
Not “all the time”, but often enough to recognize when it happens…  
…then we laugh at them.