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"You don't have to do anything," vet said. "They'll go away on their own."
Not long after that -- sure enough, kittens got hiccups. And sure enough, after a while, hiccups went away.
That was more than 13 years ago. I still have "kittens" (three of them, anyway; one died in October 2004 from chronic renal failure). And even today, as adult cats, they will occasionally get hiccups. The hiccups last for a half a minute or a minute and then that's end of it.
So -- if your kitten (or cat) develops hiccups, don't worry about it. The hiccups will go away sooner or later.
LeAnn R. Ralph is the author of the books "Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam" (September 2004) and "Christmas in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm) (July 2003) and "Preserve Your Family History (A Step-by-Step Guide for Interviewing Family Members and Writing Oral Histories)" (e-book; April 2004). For information about the books, visit http://ruralroute2.com