The invention provides a
small animal breathing machine and a control method, the
small animal breathing machine comprises an
air pump set, a
breathing control valve, a breathing
machine controller and a touch screen displayer, the
air pump set comprises a plurality of
air pump units arranged in parallel and a
silica gel pipeline, the multiple air pump units are connected in parallel, and the air pump units with different flows can be freely combined according to different animal and
tidal volume requirements; the air flow of each air pump unit is accurately distributed, meanwhile, the high-precision and large-flow requirements of the breathing machine are met, a three-way pipeline and a valve element are arranged in the
breathing control valve, and the pulmonary alveolar connecting end, the three-way pipeline and the air outlet pipeline form an air inlet path; the alveolar connecting end, the three-way pipeline and the waste collecting end form an
exhaust gas path, and the valve element can switch the direction of an internal gas path of the three-way pipeline. The
breathing control valve controls the
airflow direction only through the action of the valve element, so that the air pump unit can operate continuously, frequent starting and stopping are not needed, the service life of the air pump unit is remarkably prolonged, and the response speed is increased.