Hi everyone! I posted last year about my cat having asthma attacks.
We changed his food and forced our downstairs neighbor to stop smoking in his house (it was seeping into our house and was pretty gross notwithstanding it triggering the cat's asthma) and that all really helped.
He now only has an asthma attack about once every three months. If his breathing is still raspy a few hours later I give him a dose of prednisone which we keep on hand for the purpose.
But he's had two attacks in two days! And at the same time I'm having a lot of allergy symptoms despite not normally having much trouble with allergies. My eyes are really itchy and my nose keeps running, blegh. So I'm wondering if, even though he's an indoor cat, if there's a particularly bad seasonal allergy that could be setting him off.
Can cats get, like, hayfever? We have a central air conditioning unit which we have been using, and we change the filters every three months, so I would have thought that enough outside triggers were staying out of the air.
And.... can cats be allergic to other cats?? We've had the foster kitten for two weeks now. I assume this would be ridiculous, but may as well ask.
We changed his food and forced our downstairs neighbor to stop smoking in his house (it was seeping into our house and was pretty gross notwithstanding it triggering the cat's asthma) and that all really helped.
He now only has an asthma attack about once every three months. If his breathing is still raspy a few hours later I give him a dose of prednisone which we keep on hand for the purpose.
But he's had two attacks in two days! And at the same time I'm having a lot of allergy symptoms despite not normally having much trouble with allergies. My eyes are really itchy and my nose keeps running, blegh. So I'm wondering if, even though he's an indoor cat, if there's a particularly bad seasonal allergy that could be setting him off.
Can cats get, like, hayfever? We have a central air conditioning unit which we have been using, and we change the filters every three months, so I would have thought that enough outside triggers were staying out of the air.
And.... can cats be allergic to other cats?? We've had the foster kitten for two weeks now. I assume this would be ridiculous, but may as well ask.