I dosed my cat with hairball paste for eight months just to stop the dry coughing: the day the vet looked at a stool sample, I understood what he’d swallowed in the garden
A persistent dry cough that sounds like a hairball attempt but produces nothing can mask a dangerous parasitic infection. One owner spent eight months treating the wrong condition until a stool sample revealed the truth: lungworm picked up from an unsuspecting garden snack.