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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.
Hiccups are due to the involuntary contraction of the diaphragm muscle. This causes you to inhale suddenly, followed by a reflex shutting of the epiglottis, which makes the hic sound. Hiccups are stopped by stimulating the vagus nerve to the diaphragm, such as by drinking water upside down.