Questions tagged [upper-respiratory-disease]
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My pregnant cat has difficulty breathing; will giving birth be risky for her?
I take care of a stray female cat that is 10 moths old and pregnant. A couple of months ago, she used to have some problems with breathing such as noisy breathing and some nasal discharges (note that ...
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Cat is dry coughing? Retching? Wheezing? It is the weekend and I am not sure what to do
Here is a video of my cat who has been doing this yesterday and today. I contacted the vet yesterday over the phone to get an opinion. Since he is eating and behaving normally, they didn't seem too ...
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How worried should I be about this cough?
My dog began showing symptoms by throwing up; after that, she's made horrible hacking noises every so often like she wants to throw up but can't. I think this is a "cough"? It doesn't sound ...
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Coughing fits in cats
My cat started to display some coughing behaviour. I have seen him cough just once in the last year but last week, he coughed three times, and all coughing sessions take like twenty seconds. There ...
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Cat not breathing well through his nose
I have a 9 year old cat who stopped breathing well through his nose about a year ago. It sounds like he's snoring all the time. We have taken him to a lot of vets and they aren't sure what the issue ...
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Kitten has stuffy nose for the past 2 months
I've bought a new kitten 2 months ago. She was 3 months at the time, and is 5 months now.
The day I brought her home, I noticed she had a runny/stuffy nose and one eye was quite watery. I brought her ...
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Cat coughing/sneezing keeps coming back despite treatment?
I have an eight-year-old male cat. He has always been very healthy, but this year he's had some respiratory problems. Here's the history:
In early March he started sneezing and coughing often.
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How frequently does a cat need to sneeze before it might indicate a health problem?
My 10 year-old cat had some discharge in both eyes a week ago, and was lethargic and uninterested in food, so I brought him into the vet. I was told he seemed to be in good health, but they ...
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What air quality index (AQI) is safe for cats?
My kitty loves to go outside, but I live in an area with extensive wildfires at the moment, and so the air quality has been awful. I've been keeping her inside for the worst of it, but it's starting ...
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Pink eye/Conjunctivitis or URI?
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I've gotten a kitten at the start of this month (September). From the first day, she has had eye discharge in one eye, and has to sneeze every now and then. I was concerned, and ...
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My bunny is making a new noise I’ve never heard before and I was wondering if anyone has ever heard a similar noise from another bunny?
My 3-month old lionhead bunny has started making a new noise. She previously was ill with the snuffles, completed a course of antibiotic. She was never very ill with the snuffles just very sneezy and ...
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My dog is coughing frequently (several times per hour)
Our 4-year old Aussie-doodle frequently will have a coughing attack in which she almost sounds like she's hacking up a hairball; she'll cough hard 3-5 times, then have a final hack and be done... ...
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3 month old kitten pawing at mouth and making gagging motion
My 3 month old male kitten woke up from his evening nap yesterday and started pawing at his mouth with both front paws (nearly falling on his face) and then did kind of a gagging motion with his mouth ...
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Wheezing/whistling symptoms in a tortoise
My tortoise was wheezing for a while. I took him to the doctor, who gave him antibiotics. Everything was fine.
Now he’s wheezing or whistling again, not sure how to describe it. Should I be concerned ...
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What is the proper method of disinfecting a room exposed to feline URI?
We currently have one cat in our home. We recently fostered a kitten with an upper respiratory infection (URI) for roughly one week.
We were aware of the URI and we quarantined the kitten in a room ...
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Is there any way to help a kitten with a URI until I can afford to get him to the vet?
A stray kitten I've been fostering has developed an upper respiratory infection. He has a lot of coughing, occasional sneezing, and runny eyes. We are without power due to the hurricane and I cannot ...
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Medication for cat with difficulty breathing / congestion
I'm watching a friend's cat and she has trouble breathing, sounding like she's snoring/slurping constantly ("nasal stertor").
Apparently this is "normal" for her. She's always been like this, and ...
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Extremely sick German shepherd puppies
My puppies have been extremely sick for the past week or so and as of yet they are deteriorating. Their symptoms currently are:
- Vomiting upon eating anything more than 10ml, so cannot retain food.
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Does L-Lysine supplementation help cats with feline herpes?
My cat has chronic congestion and sneezing (aka feline viral rhinopneumonitis (FVR) or feline herpesvirus type 1 (FHV-1)). During a recent flareup (the congestion worsened so that he stopped eating) ...
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What is the appropriate first aid for a cat nosebleed?
My cat Hunter apparently had a nosebleed tonight. He was sneezing fine droplets of blood, and had long strands of bloody boogers hanging from his nose. The blood was fresh (bright red, not the deeper ...
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How can I help my cat with chronic congestion and sneezing?
We got our cat as a kitten; she's now 12. When we got her, she had a bad upper respiratory virus. She was so congested at one point, we had to hold her upside-down to get the mucus to drain out of ...
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Cat sneezes constantly, and noticeably congested, for 3 months
My calico cat sneezes multiple times a day, releasing mucus. This began about three months ago. She is also audibly congested. Does she have an allergy? A cold that won't go away? Perhaps this seems ...
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Probiotics to attenuate FHV-1 flare ups
I'm pretty certain my cat has had fhv-1 most his life, every few months he gets eye and nose boogers. It's generally mild and it will subside. I've had it recommended to me giving probiotics can help ...
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Why does my dog sneeze when he lies on his back for more than a few seconds
Seriously, the dog is incapable of rolling on his back without sneezing. He's typically laying on his back to try and get his tummy rubbed, at which point he will usually sneeze in the face of the ...
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My cat seems to have a harmless "sneeze button"?
I have a female tortie of unknown age - somewhere between 12 and 16. Overall she's a very healthy and content creature, but in the past few years she's developed a very strange mannerism.
Whenever ...
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Why does my cat's sneeze contain blood?
One of our cats, from time to time, goes into fits of sneezing (almost machine gun-like) that is worrisome, but there is also sometimes blood in the discharge. She's eating and drinking fine and her ...
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