Asthmatic Sea Otter Learns To Use An Inhaler

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Seattle Aquarium

A wheezy otter has made breezy work of learning how to use an inhaler. Aaaw.

Named Mishka, the 1-year-old Seattle Aquarium resident is reportedly the first sea otter to be diagnosed with the respiratory disease asthma. So needless to say, it’s an understudied area, and there doesn’t seem to be a great amount of literature on the condition in non-human, non-domesticated animals (cats, dogs and horses can all get asthma).