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So I have 2 cats. One is 11 months and one is 10 months. Booger (11 months) weights about 8 lbs. and Stitch (10 months) weighs about 12 lbs. Last week, Booger's health declined quickly. They both sneeze sometimes, but he started sneezing over and over where I was worried he wasn't breathing enough. Then, before I got him to the vet, he stopped eating and drinking. In less than a 12 hour period, he was fine, then he was so dehydrated by 3pm that the vet had to administer fluids and when I took him home, for 2 days, I had to use a syringe to give him water because he wouldn't move. The vet did blood work and a thorough exam and found absolutely nothing to be wrong with him. It appeared as if it were allergies, but he said sometimes, in cats, you just don't know what the problem is and it goes away on its own. The vet also gave him an antihistamine...chlor something. Long name. So that lasted a few days, and each day he was getting better. Stitch was fine during this. Yesterday was Booger's first "back to normal" days and Stitch started with the sneezing fits. I didn't use all of the antihistamine given to Booger, so I gave one to Stitch and it didn't help at all. I'm thinking dosage issues because Booger is small and Stitch is fat. Late last night he started breathing through his mouth. So I took him in the bathroom and turned on the shower to hot to steam it up for a few minutes. That didn't help. He's still eating and drinking, just doing some sneezing and mouth breathing. Do cats get colds? If so, can they pass it to each other? What we thought was allergies, is clearly not, because Booger is fine and allergies don't just go away after 3 days. I'm confident that whatever it was Booger had, Stitch now has. I just want to make him comfortable for the duration of this. If an antihistamine and steam doesn't help, how do you clear your cats nasal passageway?