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[pigletsmom]

@Icegoddess Does the dehumidifier help with your kitty? My cat has asthma too but much worse in the summer. I've been considering a dehumidifier. 

[Shanus]

@Icegoddess   Ah, sorry I misread the OP. So it's like taking your kitty to Arizona?

[Icegoddess]

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@pigletsmom wrote:

@Icegoddess Does the dehumidifier help with your kitty? My cat has asthma too but much worse in the summer. I've been considering a dehumidifier. 

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@pigletsmom I feel like it does.  He had a sudden downturn this summer where we went from needing a nebulizer treatment (albuterol) once every 3 or 4 months to once or sometimes even twice a day.  The doctor even added another drug to his nebulizer treatments.  That's on top of his prednisolone he gets daily.  After we got the dehumidifier, he dropped to only needing just the albuterol nebulizer once every 2 to 4 days.  However, we have finally gotten some fall weather here and the humidity is lower, yet he has needed a treatment 2 days in a row.  Go figure.  

Do you use Flovent (an inhaler) with your kitty?  Prednisolone, which is what I give mine, has a possible side effect of diabetes.  So, the Flovent is a safer soution.  But, I haven't been successful in getting Sambo to accept the little mouthpiece.  He's not food oriented, so using treats to train doesn't work for him.  

[Icegoddess]

@Foxxee , yeah, I know hygrometers are not that accurate.  I currently have my portable one sitting next to my dehumidifier.  The variance changes.  Right now it's 48 vs 42 on my dehumidifier.  I have seen it be a spread of 10 at times though.  But, you would think the on/off of the dehumidifier would work within just a few percentage point.  It wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't so loud.  I have difficulty hearing the TV when it runs so I'm often turning the TV volume up and down (assuming I'm actually paying attention to it).

[pigletsmom]

@Icegoddess Thanks for the info. I've been lucky with my cat and she's normally been pretty good in the fall and worse in summer. I think this is the first fall she's continued to cough a little. She isn't so bad that she needs a nebulizer thankfully. I do have the prednisolone for her. I used to give her that a couple times a week during summer and we could drop off in the winter. I was glad about that because she was diagnosed pretty young an I didn't want her on them constantly for life.

[LonestarBabs]

I had a dehumidifier in our garage and used it primarily when household goods were stored there before I secured a climate-controlled storage unit. I was surprised at how often I had to empty it (I could have drilled a hole in the garage door for a hose to continuously empty into an outside drain but I didn't), but it did cycle on/off when the humidity level in the garage exceeded the setting. This is normal. It worked beautifully.