sunnysmom
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I have two feral cats I take care of. They live in an insulated cat house on my back porch. The female periodically has a cough. Not being that knowledgeable about cats, I assumed- hair ball. Well, last week, the cough seemed to be getting worse and her one eye was a little goopy. Then, she went in the cat house and wasn't coming out. We did get a lot of snow. So, I can't really blame her for not wanting to come out. And her brother kept sleeping with her at night. Someone once told me that if a cat was really sick, other cats would stay away from it. Not sure if that's true or not? Anyway, I did some googling and thought she might have an upper respiratory infection and decided that I needed to somehow get her to a vet. I made arrangements to borrow a cat carrier and was going to take her today as my vet is closed on weekends. Since I made the decision, she has seemed to have made a miraculous recovery. Seriously. She's not coughing. Her eye is not goopy. She is back to meeting me at my car when I get home and zig-zagging between my legs when I walk, and eating up a storm. So, I didn't take her to the vet's today. I did read that sometimes URIs can clear up by themselves. Any thoughts or experience with this? If that's even what she had. Do you think I should still take her to the vet? (Keeping in mind she's feral and it's not going to be fun experience for either of us.)