Can a cold be transmitted from a human to a cat or vice versa?

[xiphias]

I've just shaken off a cold; I'd been sneezing for a couple days, then, yesterday afternoon and today, I just did nothing but sleep, and I'm feeling better now.

But now Nora's sneezing.

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[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Much of the problem is that keeping animals in herds or flocks facilitates disease transmission.

Of course there are also bugs that infect animals in the wild and are still transmissible to humans, like Ebola, or a variety of SIV that's mutated enough to jump the species barrier....