Giz/Emma and everyones pets on the board

I think I found the cause for kiddos being stuffy every morning, some worse than others. I was the only one up watching news and she came out from bed sneezing and snotting and even her eyelids were puffy, only an hour or so in bed. We decided I should try her bed for the night to see if I found anything and she took the couch where I set her up with a trash can and tissue clearing her poor lil nose & sinsus up. At first I deep cleaned her room, been running the sanitize cycle on her bedding & curtains etc., told her no perfume or scents of any kind in there and kept up with it. No luck.

Woke up last night to our cat millimeters from my face, his purr and whiskers ( and smell of his breath ) woke me. Lil bugger kept trying to lick my face, took me 3 time to finally block him and he finally licked my hand and arm instead. Eeeeew.

That HAS to be it. You know what cat allergies are? It's not their fur, it's the coats of saliva that travel around on the fur from grooming themselves. She's not allergic to hauling him around and petting him etc. all day (he doesn't shed much, hypoallergenic), but having straight saliva concentrated by your eyes and nose, I can see that happening. Likely explains some irritated spots on her cheeks here and there over the last few months, that rough tongue on delicate skin.

Turns out she sees it as affection, I get it, we call dogs licking faces "kisses"..... She's trained him to jump, play fetch, and play tag. I hope she can un-train him for face kisses. She was heartbroken to hear she's probably allergic but hopefully being clear in the morning instead of sneezing and blowing her nose is an incentive. Or, I could lock him out of her room at night, but neither she nor him would like that.

 

You may be right, I talked to him in January, he advised sudafed, might be time for another call.

 

Congress seeks recall of popular Seresto flea collars possibly linked to pet deaths

 

We don't have fleas out here but if I were using one I'd toss and get something else.

 

Getting so big already!

 

Oh I'm so sorry Larry, I can't imagine how terrible that was.