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11 year-old male hacking-coughing
Hello everyone. My 11 year-old male Short Hair is having occasional,
but very disturbing coughing spells. They ususally start with loud gag, followed by about a minute of coughing that sounds lung-related (wet and rattled sound). These episodes occur every three or four days. They have been occuring for about nine months. Between the coughing episodes he appears to be fine. His appetite has been holding steady, but he has lost one pound of weight over the past two months. He seems to be playful most of the time, however. Can someone provide some insight here? Thanks in advance for your help. Smooth |
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wrote in message ups.com... Hello everyone. My 11 year-old male Short Hair is having occasional, but very disturbing coughing spells. They ususally start with loud gag, followed by about a minute of coughing that sounds lung-related (wet and rattled sound). These episodes occur every three or four days. They have been occuring for about nine months. Between the coughing episodes he appears to be fine. His appetite has been holding steady, but he has lost one pound of weight over the past two months. He seems to be playful most of the time, however. Can someone provide some insight here? Thanks in advance for your help. Has he ever been checked for asthma or heartworms? When my shelter cat did this the vet checked for these and she had asthma--very treatable. |
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Sounds like he needs a full work up at the vets. When a cat looses weight
like this for no reason there is definitely something wrong. Don't wait any longer to have him checked out if this is serious the longer it goes on the worse he'll be. Celeste wrote in message ups.com... Hello everyone. My 11 year-old male Short Hair is having occasional, but very disturbing coughing spells. They ususally start with loud gag, followed by about a minute of coughing that sounds lung-related (wet and rattled sound). These episodes occur every three or four days. They have been occuring for about nine months. Between the coughing episodes he appears to be fine. His appetite has been holding steady, but he has lost one pound of weight over the past two months. He seems to be playful most of the time, however. Can someone provide some insight here? Thanks in advance for your help. Smooth |
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My cat has the same symptoms and is 10. The diagnosis was established when
he was 2 years old. He had contracted the cat version of HIV from a now deceased cat. He is and has been in good health otherwise. He is maintained strictly as an indoor cat although he has an extensive enclosed cat run that takes him up over the house and into the garden where he sunbakes along the pool edge!. The treatment is a short dose of Prednisolone for 2 days then half a tab for another 2 days. Also a hot air radiator seems attractive to him even though we live in a tropical high humidity environment. When he has a fit coming on he runs straight into the bathroom and sits in front of the radiator - I dutifully turn it on. I guess it is a lung viral infection, it hasn't been identified. A (human) friend who is living with HIV AIDS for the past 20+ years has similar symptoms and regards my cat as his special buddy!! I suggest you get a blood test to establish the problem - don't panic if it is FIV it's not transferable to humans and in cats it happens via a bite (no sex please we are Cats!!!) Hope that helps wrote in message ups.com... Hello everyone. My 11 year-old male Short Hair is having occasional, but very disturbing coughing spells. They ususally start with loud gag, followed by about a minute of coughing that sounds lung-related (wet and rattled sound). These episodes occur every three or four days. They have been occuring for about nine months. Between the coughing episodes he appears to be fine. His appetite has been holding steady, but he has lost one pound of weight over the past two months. He seems to be playful most of the time, however. Can someone provide some insight here? Thanks in advance for your help. Smooth |
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