Hello,
It's been a few years since I've been on this site, but you've all been really helpful in the past, so here I am again.
My cat Randy started sneezing a few days ago. We're packing up to move, and kicking up dust, and of course Randy has to help. She's always had this strange plastic chew compulsion, and I noticed the day before the sneezing began that she chewed on a plastic ziplock bag in a moving box I hadn't taped that used to be stored next to some incense, so it had a slight smell.
Randy is 16, but she's always been prone to allergies and every year or so goes through a runny eye/nose spell that clears up on its own, so I'm not too worried (yet). She eats fine, drinks fine, plays fine, purrs, seems happy, sleeps good, etc. Her nose and eyes don't even seem runny, so this doesn't look to be as bad as she's had it in the past at all, but it's been a few days now, and I'm trying to figure out how to make it stop.
The sneezing is not constant or violent, but it tends to be fits of several small quiet sneezes that typically happen when she is trying to bathe. Sometimes she'll sneeze when she sniffs something she's interested in, but mostly just when she bathes (and she sneezes all through the bath, not just once or twice) When I first noticed her doing this I did the normal allergy damage control: dust, vacuum, wash the bedding, vacuum the furniture, brush the cat, clean the sinks (since she plays in the sinks), etc. Still no improvement, so I did it all again, still no improvement.
I have to be careful what litter I buy because cat litter dust bugs her a lot, but I just finished off a bag she'd been using for the past month, and the problem just started, so I don't think it's that.
Since it happens worst when she bathes, I feel like it must be something in her fur. I don't know how to help that, other than to keep the house clean so she doesn't get back into whatever it was and keep her brushed.
I brushed her last either yesterday or the day before (the days all run together). How often is it safe to brush a cat? I try to once a week, my mom said she would twice a week. Randy has short hair and always keeps herself really clean. I don't want to irritate her skin, but I wonder if I brushed her again if it would help if there is something in her fur making her sneeze.
Does anyone have any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
Thanks
It's been a few years since I've been on this site, but you've all been really helpful in the past, so here I am again.
My cat Randy started sneezing a few days ago. We're packing up to move, and kicking up dust, and of course Randy has to help. She's always had this strange plastic chew compulsion, and I noticed the day before the sneezing began that she chewed on a plastic ziplock bag in a moving box I hadn't taped that used to be stored next to some incense, so it had a slight smell.
Randy is 16, but she's always been prone to allergies and every year or so goes through a runny eye/nose spell that clears up on its own, so I'm not too worried (yet). She eats fine, drinks fine, plays fine, purrs, seems happy, sleeps good, etc. Her nose and eyes don't even seem runny, so this doesn't look to be as bad as she's had it in the past at all, but it's been a few days now, and I'm trying to figure out how to make it stop.
The sneezing is not constant or violent, but it tends to be fits of several small quiet sneezes that typically happen when she is trying to bathe. Sometimes she'll sneeze when she sniffs something she's interested in, but mostly just when she bathes (and she sneezes all through the bath, not just once or twice) When I first noticed her doing this I did the normal allergy damage control: dust, vacuum, wash the bedding, vacuum the furniture, brush the cat, clean the sinks (since she plays in the sinks), etc. Still no improvement, so I did it all again, still no improvement.
I have to be careful what litter I buy because cat litter dust bugs her a lot, but I just finished off a bag she'd been using for the past month, and the problem just started, so I don't think it's that.
Since it happens worst when she bathes, I feel like it must be something in her fur. I don't know how to help that, other than to keep the house clean so she doesn't get back into whatever it was and keep her brushed.
I brushed her last either yesterday or the day before (the days all run together). How often is it safe to brush a cat? I try to once a week, my mom said she would twice a week. Randy has short hair and always keeps herself really clean. I don't want to irritate her skin, but I wonder if I brushed her again if it would help if there is something in her fur making her sneeze.
Does anyone have any thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
Thanks
