What do you do if your guinea pig is choking?

Answer 1

Choking, if it interferes with breathing, needs to be considered an emergency. Here are some steps to take:

• Check for ligature, or something choking the dog externally. If found, remove it.
• Check in the mouth and as far down the airway you can safely and gently probe. If you find something, try and remove it. NOTE -- a choking dog in panic may bite -- if you can, dam the back teeth to prevent injury.
• If you have oxygen, use it as best you know how.
• If the dog is still having serious trouble breathing, you can rescue-breathe a dog. If all else fails, try exhaling into the dog's nose. If you have oxygen, take a breath of it, and exhale it into the dog. If not, breathe air into your lungs, then exhale into the dog by breathing into both the nostrils and mouth at the same time.
• If you're rescue breathing and you can't get air in, try repositioning the airway, then try again.

If the choking is not acute but is chronic, it's definitely worth a trip to the Vet to find out what's what.

A bit more:

If there is a vet's office open, or an animal emergency clinic, you may need to call them immediately so a trained professional can take you step-by-step through the process. Most phones these days have speaker phone capability, so you can put them on speaker and still communicate with them while you work on your dog.

I strongly recommend putting those phone numbers in a highly visible or very quickly accessible place. You just never know when a pug (or any other breed of dog) will swallow something and choke on it.

Answer 2

Don't feed your pug with dry food! Pugs do much better on a well-balanced wet diet. Make sure your pug doesn't have "kennel cough" -- a trip to the vet will confirm this.

Some pugs do something called "reverse sneezing," which sounds like they are sniffing REALLY hard. It's not dangerous and should pass quite quickly; some people say that blocking the nostrils gently helps.

Answer 3

It is similar to humans. You gently push against the pigs chest with two fingers and hopefuly something will come out of the mouth.