Can Your Dog or Cat Be Allergic to You?
Our pets can suffer from many of the same allergens that make humans miserable, including pollen, veterinarians say.
It's also the perfect season to turn the tables and look at allergies from our pets' point of view. So for Weird Animal Question of the Week, we're responding to National Geographic's own Emily Tye, who asks: "Can cats be allergic to dogs, or vice versa?"
We also wonder—can they be allergic to us?
"The answer to all of these is yes," says Raelynn Farnsworth, of Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. (See "Coughing Cats May Be Allergic to People, Vets Say.")
"It's rare, but dogs can be allergic to cat dander and people dander and vice versa. For everything."
For dogs, the most common clinical signs are skin inflammation and itching, Farnsworth says. Other symptoms may include sneezing and
