How I cured my cat’s cough

How I cured my cat's cough

This past Spring, one of my cats, Sissy, began coughing or throwing up a clear foam with mucus.  Because it happened so quickly and without warning, I couldn’t tell whether she was coughing or throwing up.  Once a vet visit confirmed it was coming from a cough, I went to work finding a way to help her.

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How I cured my dog’s kennel cough

kennel cough

Last month, a week after my labrador, Abby, spent a night at the vet’s office following lipoma removal surgery, she developed a cough.  I let it go for a little over a day, as I waited to see if it was just a fluke since she was on antibiotics from her surgery and it was a pretty minor and only occasional cough.  Listening to her, it just appeared that she had something in her throat. She hadn’t had any bones recently and she’s a grass eater, so I thought maybe she just had a piece of grass stuck in her throat.  Unfortunately, by the next day when my scheduled post surgery check-in call with the vet came, the cough had progressed to being more frequent.

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