Do Cats Get Colds Or Flu

Cat flu is a general term for a highly contagious upper respiratory disease that affects cats and kittens.

Do cats get colds or flu. Cat flu does cause cold-like symptoms with a runny congested nose that can make your cat snuffle and sneeze a fever drooling and red watery eyes. Just like people cats can get colds. So if your cat is sneezing and coughing or has a fever or loss of appetite it may well be suffering from cat flu.

The virus is present in saliva tears and nasal secretions and spread through contact between cats. This disease is caused by one or more viruses including Feline Herpes Virus 1 FHV1 and Feline Calicivirus FVC. Cats with flu will show signs that include fever frequent sneezing discharge from the nose and eyes loss of appetite and depression.

Cat flu also known as feline respiratory disease is a little like a human cold in terms of symptoms. Cats also get cat-to-cat viruses that are similar to a cold but humans cant catch those. However this is not to say that a cat with a cold should just be overlooked and or left untreated.

Your vet may prescribe eye drops or ointment for the conjunctivitis. It can take as long as two weeks for signs of flu to appear. Cat flu is not usually serious in healthy cats.

Cats with flu will show signs that include fever frequent sneezing discharge from the nose and eyes loss of appetite and depression. But a cat can catch cold or flu from you. Cat colds are usually caused by a virus.

Cat colds are usually diagnosed as an Upper Respiratory Infection. Cats can solely grow to be contaminated from different cats and sometimes different animals. The viruses that give animals things like coughs colds and the flu are different from the ones that cause these illnesses in people and they dont spread back and forth between humans and animals.