Coughing

Most of you know me by now and my Roscoe with the heart condition. His cardiologist told me that he may pant or cough but to just watch that it's infrequent. My question is......what does the "heart related" cough sound like? Today, he went for a drink of water, jumped on the table, hacked a little while stretching his neck out. Looked to me like something stuck in his throat or like he was trying to hack up a hairball and he's done it before. It doesn't look like what I'd call a cough, but with a heart condition, could that be his way of couging?

I can't give you a lot of help either. Maybe your cat has some fluid in his lungs due to his heart condition which caused him to cough. My cat, Midnight, was diagnosed with asthsma when she was ll years old and sometimes had the same type of cough you described.

Sounds like asthma. My siamese has it and takes prednisone daily.

Marsha

Thanks everyone for your kind replies! I'm such a worrywart! I caught him coughing again one night and noticed he spit a baby tooth on the floor, so my guess is that he was trying to swallow them and then trying to hack them back up - especially since he hasn't done it since (knock on wood). Between the two kittens, I've found plenty of baby teeth for keepsakes. I just never thought of the hacking being related to a baby tooth! I went back and looked at my records and noticed that the hacking was around the time he started losing the baby teeth.