Cat Allergies?

By which I don't mean people being allergic to cats, but cats being allergic to other things. I'm beginning to wonder if it's possible for cats to have the sort of springtime "hay fever" pollen allergies that humans do.

Leela was having sneezing fits yesterday. And it's not the first time in the past few weeks that's happened. She'd be going along fine, and suddenly she'd sneeze, like four or five times or more in rapid succession. I counted nine once. I've been a little worried about whether she has a cold/upper respiratory infection as we had to take her to the vet and get her antibiotics several months ago, and I've read that these things can become pretty chronic in cats. But she doesn't have any other symptoms - eyes watering, etc. There's no mucusy discharge when she sneezes, it's clear and watery. I'd rather not go into how I know this. And she shows no signs whatsoever of being sick or in distress. She's her basic happy, energetic self.

And then today it seems to have stopped completely and she's fine. So I wonder if this is just springtime allergies. I don't really seem to have these myself so I'm not immersed in what they're like and how they operate. But the number of drug commercials on TV for Claritin and the like suggests that they're pretty widespread and bothersome. Do they apply to cats? I don't know.

The other possibility is that she just got into a dusty environment someplace and it was irritating her nose. God only knows what kind of little hidden dusty boltholes she's found around here that we aren't even aware of. But whatever it is, she's fine. Let me emphasize that.