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Emotions are another cause of hiccups in dogs. Stress and fatigue can give your dog hiccups, as can excitement. However, excitement usually causes reverse hiccups, which are often confused with hiccups. Reverse hiccups are when your dog takes a series of loud, involuntary breaths through its nose.
What Causes Long-Term Hiccups? Long-term hiccups are most often the result of irritation to the vagus or phrenic nerves, which serve your diaphragm muscle. Such irritation may be caused by gastroesophageal reflux, sore throat, laryngitis, a tumor, cyst or goiter in your neck or even a hair touching your eardrum.