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Can cats get colds from their families?

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Judystilldreamsofhorses · 04/12/2022 21:50

DP and I have both been staving off colds all week - that way when you feel run down and snotty but it isn’t full blown misery. Yet.

Over the last couple of days the cat has been a bit sneezy. She’s eating fine, was in our bed leaping on our heads for breakfast at 5am, begging for treats etc. she has no “discharge” from nose/eyes. She’s maybe a wee bit sleepier than usual today, but it’s cold and wet so she’s not keen to go out. She’s happily playing with the laser pen, toy mice etc.

Can she have caught our colds? If she gets poorly we will obviously bring her to the vet but she gets SO distressed (last time she did a wee in the carrier in the waiting room) that I would rather not have to do that unless it’s absolutely 100% necessary. She’s eight, had her boosters in April, and while she does go out she is generally in our garden or next door, she doesn’t roam.

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DisplayPurposesOnly · 04/12/2022 21:57

Not a human cold, no, but it could be an upper respiratory tract infection. I'd leave it for a couple of days (unless it gets worse, obviously) and off to the vets if it continues. Just put something absorbent in the pet carrier!

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 04/12/2022 22:16

@DisplayPurposesOnly oh we will definitely bring her to the vet if we have to - she just gets so, so upset and then is off her stott for the next few days. One or both of us is WFH most of the week (pre-planned) so we can keep an eye on her. Would she have picked that up from another cat? There’s a wee bengal comes round in the evening but she hates him and chases him out of the garden.

She just came and begged for Dreamies and has now gone out (the rain’s off) in the garden.

Here she is having a nap on my Oodie earlier.

Can cats get colds from their families?
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