It was only a couple of months ago that my dog had suspected kennel cough.  She was gagging and bringing up pools of bile when she got up from her bed in the mornings or started barking.  Blow me down if she hasn't started doing it again.  I suspect that the problem is that kennel cough is not one virus so she has got another strain?  Even though she is vaccinated to have it twice in a matter of months is no joke.  We have an agility show coming up - just checked the calender and she should be well out of the infectious period if it only lasts for a few days like last time.  But I will have to give up my classes again.   I would love it to be just a scratched throat from scavenging dead fish on the beach on sat - she started coughing sat pm.  How likely is that to be I wonder?   She probabally coughs 3 or 4 times during the day - seems so little to cause so much annoyance.

She may have irritated her throat on fish bones, if she keeps up the coughing or it gets worse you might want to check with the vet.  Could be something is caught - had a friend that ended up in A&E after a fish dinner - a bone got caught, he tried to extract it himself, didn't work, next day had to have professional help!

Yes - kennel cough is not a single virus, so they can catch it more than once.  Pretty much why having the vacinne is a waste of time - even though most boarding kennels require it.  Twice I've had dogs vacinnated only to end up with coughs 24-48 hours later - with the vets claiming it was "impossible" to get kennel cough from the vacinne itself.  Given dogs I own seem to be able to manage the impossible - I don't have mine done.

Sorry to see your post, there's so much of it about at the moment (well all year to be honest) :-(

Could well have it again, like humans with colds/coughs it keeps coming around.  In our area even the vaccinated dogs were getting KC in the summer as it was a different strain to the one they were vaccinated against.

Nice to see a conscientious owner dropping her classes.  I only missed a few as it was summer hols but I went back to classes in October & walked straight back out again when I heard hacking coughs!

Hope she's better soon, or better still that it's not kennel cough ;-)

Still coughing - worse today.  Started with one cough sat night and then just 3-4 bouts starting with her first when getting out of her basket first thing.  Today it has been worse.  Got benyllin today.  The dogs in agility have all been exposed to it unwittingly now because she was infectious last week - she didn't cough until the evening.  Makes me want to ignore and go - can't in all honesty.  However haven't changed her daily walk.  Why bother when she caught the bug from this anyway.  Every other dog who walks that way has been exposed too.  Nowhere else to walk her anyway - dogs everywhere. 

Just a thought but the sister of my oldest dog actually has a scared throat from kennel cough which causes her to still cough.

I could understand that if it had been a severe case but Meg has been vaccinated and only had it mildly a few months ago - coughing a few times a day for about 3 days.  This time she has been a bit hoarse in the morning and one or two coughing fits during the day - She took some benyllin yesterday but this morning when she croaked first thing as my husband walked into the room she refused to take her medicine. At least she didn't cough.  Will watch her over the weekend and take her to vets if there is no improvement by Monday. 

Hi there,
my Boxer pup had kennel cough twice within a couple of months and the second time he had it was much worse than the first. It went very quickly from being a slight cough to hacking all the time and constant bringing up of bile. I took him straight to vet the next day and as well as antibiotics he gave my boy an anti inflammatory jab due to his throat being so raw. The coughing continued but Nero seemed much less stressed by it and his throat didn't look so angry by the end of that day.
I tried Benyllin but he was having none of that and it all got very messy and sticky!

The problem is that the name Kennel Cough is the generic name given for the effect of a viral attack on the upper respiratory system of the dog and like the cold in the human the agent causing the infection is many and varied. So just as a person can have a cold and 4 weeks later have another so can a dog, the person, and the dog, will have immunity to the agent causing the first attack but not the second.