Frances Ross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>My cat loves milk - but it gives her an allergic reaction. She gets an
>asthma attack - coughing and wheezing. She is obviously uncomfortable and
>it obviously does her no good.

What kind of milk are you talking about, pasteurized or unpasteurized, or
both? Here's something interesting I once found on Yahoo's Live-Food
Mailing List: "... one of my adult male cats is entirely correct in his
assessment that pasteurized/homogenized milk is better for cats than raw.
He can even "prove" it to you--he doesn't get diarrhea from it, like he
does every time he's given raw milk, and he managed to cure himself of a
central nervous system-affecting disease last year eating nothing but."
(Morgan Macdonal
d, Wed Feb 7, 2001, Message #4126)

I wouldn't generalize this tolerance to all cats, like this gentleman did,
but in case you haven't tried it yet maybe your cat can handle pasteurized
milk.

Fredrik