have raised the alarm over a mystery coughing illness on the rise in dogs across the US.
Experts have warned that symptoms of the mystery illness may present as similar to those of kennel cough, including coughing, sneezing, nasal and/or eye discharge and lethargy.
But the illness is distinct from kennel cough because symptoms will include a wet, rather than a dry cough, experts have said.
“Instead of that dry cough where the dog felt good, it was now this wet cough where the dog felt sick,” Amanda Cavanagh, the section head of the urgent care service at Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, told Good Morning America.
Vets have also warned that the mystery illness is highly contagious and could potentially be fatal