# My poor dog sounds terrible!

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**Created:** [May 15, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-poor-dog-sounds-terrible/245201 "2004-05-15T00:36:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-poor-dog-sounds-terrible/245201/1 "2004-05-15T00:36:51Z")

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He’s a cairn terrier, and he’s developed a really bad cough. I was worried he’d swallowed a piece of chewtoy; but we took him to the vet who said he had an inflamed trachea, cause unknown. We’re giving him pills but the poor thing sounds like a goose honking.