I think she's allergic!

[gingersmom]

To my house!

Miss Squeaky started having sneezing fits at some point yesterday - she was fine up until then, been in the main part of the house since Sunday morning, and was isolated in my downstairs laundry/bath for a full week before that.

Her eyes are clear, no mucus, nothing is runny, no sign of anything up her nose (I looked!

)

I researched feline sneezing a bit, and it might well be an allergy to something in the house (the Feliway diffusers? Dust? Cat fur???

)

But it could also be from a bad tooth - she does have a red spot on her gums at one of her back teeth that I saw at the vet's, although he said at this point it didn't look like it was a problem.

So here I go again, worrying! NOT concerned about calcivirus, she's been tested and vaxed, and all the others are/were vaxed as needed, plus she shows no symptoms except the little sneeze fits.

I act worried and ask her why she's sneezing, she looks at me like, "What? Is there a problem? Humans are weird!"

Anyone have any experience with cats that have little sneezing fits? I'm talking like, 10 sneezes in a row, then nothing for an hour or two. Then 8 sneezes, nothing for 10 minutes, 5 more sneezes, then nothing for another couple of hours. Is so strange!

A friend of mine says one of hers gets hay fever in the fall, and she has to take Benedryl prescribed by her vet.

I think Miss Squeaky might just be a real handful.

 

[mews2much]

My Wrinkles has hay fever and does that.

 

[stephanietx]

My Hannah will start sneezing every time the weather changes. I have to watch her because she'll get an upper respiratory infection due to her herpes, but weather changing is usually when it happens.

 

[ducman69]

Found out the hard way that the catnip I had purchased and put on all the kitty stuff was giving Wesley sneezing fits.

Took 3-4 times before I put two and two together that giving him catnip didn't agree with him.

 

[gingersmom]

Originally Posted by Ducman69

Found out the hard way that the catnip I had purchased and put on all the kitty stuff was giving Wesley sneezing fits.

Took 3-4 times before I put two and two together that giving him catnip didn't agree with him.

Hmmmm...that's another possibility, because I have catnip on all the toys that are out upstairs at the moment, and she was sneezing while rolling around, rubbing her face into a catnip pillow yesterday evening!

Wow, that would be rough - poor kitty likes her nip, but might be allergic!

Going to give her some loose now, see if that makes her sneezy.

EDIT: Nope! Not a single sneeze!

 

[catmom2wires]

Sounds like she may just have a little cold. I wouldn't worry about it unless she gets snotty/runny eyes, coughing, etc. I remember last year my Ziggy got a "little cold" out of nowhere and the others were fine. He was fine, too in a matter of days.

Good luck!

C

 

[darkmavis]

I think Genever might have allergies too because she gets sneezing fits now and then. Just about a week ago, especially on Monday and Tuesday, both she and I were sneezing all day long! I gave her 1/2 pill of people chlor-trimeton (OK'd by my vet), twice a day, but it didn't do much. A while back she was sneezing a bunch and the allergy med did help that time. Anyway, she is not sneezing anymore, and was never snotty or anything.

I hope your girl stops sneezing soon too!! It's so sad to see them sneeze a bunch of times in a row!

 

[ummm]

After we took Tallulah home from the rescue, she was fine the first couple of days, then started sneezing a bit, and then sneezing bad like 10 times in a roll and I felt so bad for her! Wrote to the rescue, and they said she had a cold but got better at the rescue, with the move/stress, the cold probably flared up again... she got better after some antibiotics and hasn't sneezed like that since. The whole time, she never lost any appetite so I didn't think she was sick! Looking back, now think she was tired and wasn't very active, but since I didn't know her, I thought she just wasn't an active cat... she's definitely more active now.

 

[gingersmom]

Well, Squeaky is full of beans and there is absolutely no sign of illness whatsoever, so I am positive that it isn't any kind of upper respiratory infection.

I haven't heard her sneeze this entire day, so who knows, I guess!