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Hi all,
My cat (14 m.o. DSH female, speyed) has had this cough for a few weeks now.. well it's half a cough/sneeze.... mostly I only heard it every few days (doesn't mean it didn't happen more often of course) and she'd convulse when she coughed/sneezed but nothing seemed to come out, and after 10-15 secs she was fine again and all good. I figured maybe she's trying to get rid of a furball or something since it was the end of our summer and she had been molting a lot of fur (and i've brushed even more off). So anyway she seemed pretty ok, eating and everything normally so decided not to panic too much, but to keep an eye on it.
Well today she doesn't seem so eager to eat and she threw up just before (now she seems fine, though she was snugging under the covers as though she was colder than usual, though it is a cool evening (no she didn't throw up under the covers thank god !
). I ha djust opened a newish tin of wet food for her (sardines) which she normally loves... but that's about the only thing that has changed recently.
Anyway friends have said don't worry - cats throw up all the time and she will be fine, but I am concerned about the combination of the cough (she seemed to cough before it happened, though I did not see it), her not being so interested in food and of course throwing up (and possibly being cold). she's sitting on my lap right now and quite alert/normal.. but I don't know if I should drag her off to the vet or if perhaps I should observe over the next day or two and see what happens (ie: maybe she just had an upset tummy and is over it now that the grey/brown yuck is out of her system).
Comments are most welcome...
(oh, don't know if this is relevant, but when we got her from the shelter she was RECOVERING from cat flu, and has had all her shots)
My cat (14 m.o. DSH female, speyed) has had this cough for a few weeks now.. well it's half a cough/sneeze.... mostly I only heard it every few days (doesn't mean it didn't happen more often of course) and she'd convulse when she coughed/sneezed but nothing seemed to come out, and after 10-15 secs she was fine again and all good. I figured maybe she's trying to get rid of a furball or something since it was the end of our summer and she had been molting a lot of fur (and i've brushed even more off). So anyway she seemed pretty ok, eating and everything normally so decided not to panic too much, but to keep an eye on it.
Well today she doesn't seem so eager to eat and she threw up just before (now she seems fine, though she was snugging under the covers as though she was colder than usual, though it is a cool evening (no she didn't throw up under the covers thank god !
Anyway friends have said don't worry - cats throw up all the time and she will be fine, but I am concerned about the combination of the cough (she seemed to cough before it happened, though I did not see it), her not being so interested in food and of course throwing up (and possibly being cold). she's sitting on my lap right now and quite alert/normal.. but I don't know if I should drag her off to the vet or if perhaps I should observe over the next day or two and see what happens (ie: maybe she just had an upset tummy and is over it now that the grey/brown yuck is out of her system).
Comments are most welcome...
(oh, don't know if this is relevant, but when we got her from the shelter she was RECOVERING from cat flu, and has had all her shots)