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Just adopted a new cat about a week ago and shortly after he arrived he started becoming sorta sniffly and acting like he had a hairball to get rid of (totally plausible, he's a very floofy Maine Coon!). Our original cat (a short haired Tabby cat) came to us from a foster who worked through a cat rescue and was sick herself when she came to us with what we were told was a kind of "cold" and she had medicine for it. Once she was done the medicine she was better for 2 weeks or so then seemed sick again, sneezing having a very stuffy nose, weepy eyes occasionally etc. Took her to the vet and they thought she had developed a secondary infection while trying to fight off the cold, gave us antibiotics. She used all them and she got sniffly again a few weeks after. She has a great appetite, her lungs are clear, boundless energy just sneezes often, has sometimes greenish/yellow mucus from her nose that she sneezes out and rarely her eyes develop crusties. When we took our other cat to his first vet visit with us today and asked abut the sneezing/hacking they said his lungs are clear, eyes are bright and clear too but took blood just in case. Any idea what might be plaguing my little fur babies? We've been bouncing ideas off each other from allergies, kennel cough, and even a strain of the herpes virus (vet told us it could be this but pretty much there's nothing they can do unless the cat develops issues seeing and then we'd add lysine to the food but she didn't think it was it, but gave us no real answer). I'm more than a little frustrated that our vet doesn't seem to know what's going on with our cats and that this excessive sneezing, breathing difficulty, and mucus seem to be common among normal healthy cats to her! We go to Petco's vet service Banfield I think it is since they offer insurance plans and at the time we didn't think that we'd need to see a vet often. I just hate to see my cats look miserable and be woken by their own sneezing not to mention I'm not overly fond of being sneezed on all the time (just this morning I was awoken by my female cat sneezing all over my face and on my pillow, complete with a big greenish/yellow glob of snot resting on my pillow as way of greeting my day). Please help!