Where is a male cats bladder?
So my cat had a vet appointment on friday due to an injured ear, but friday morning i also noticed he was going to his litter box and not doing his business which i thought strange. So when we went to the vet i also mentioned this. The vet now has him on three different medications PLUS a Special wet food diet to help hydrate him, and told me to watch him for straining when urinating, crying when urinating, excessive licking of his penis, and or vomiting and not eating. None of those things have been a problem but im still really paranoid because if this small bladder infection gets worse it could become kidney stones which is very expensive for me and painful for him. I have not seen him urinate at all today but i hear cats only pee 1 to 3 times a day…… but i don’t know how to make sure he is even able to urinate. I also heard there is a certain way that a person could push on a cats bladder to make it pee. My question is how do you do that i cant find the answer anywhere online. I just really want to make sure he is able to. He seems much more playful and happy compared to friday or thursday. I just don’t know what do you yahooers think?
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Don’t worry and don’t start trying to push anywhere. As you got your cat to the vet as soon as you saw he was having trouble, the medication he was given (probably antibiotics and anti-inflamatories) will have started to work and your cat probably doesn’t need to go at the moment. When he was examined by the vet, the vet would have felt his bladder. If it had been full then the vet would have been more worried about kidney stones. A cat with a blocked bladder will become ill very quickly, so if your cat seems more happy compared to Thursday or Friday then I’m sure he is getting better. However, as the vet said, keep an eye out for any change.
I would not recommend trying to push on your cat’s bladder as you could cause injury. Can you put your cat in a bathroom or another small room with his litter box so you would know if he used it?
Sounds like urinary tract infection.
change his food to the kind "good for urinary health" 9which I assume is what the vet gave him" but you can buy it at the market and it’s cheaper.
you can also give the cat cranberry pills and put some lemon juice (2-3 drops) in it’s water.
I wouldn’t push the bladder though.
good luck
Don’t worry because you had visited vet and he prescribed a good medication.He had searched your cat’s bladder.Monitor if the cat does his business better.Inform the vet if it is not ameliorated or you find something strange.
I have to give you an advice:
I don’t know if you feed the cat with dry food.If you do so, take care to give it a good quality dry food because the cheap can cause it stones in the kidney and something like sand in t he kidney.I give my cat Royal canin, the suitable to it, but Proplan is also good brand.My vet consulted me to do so.
The problem with cats is they don’t show pain until it gets passed there threshold!
I wouldn’t start prodding your cat this could make things worse, if he is playing that’s a good sign as I have had a cat suffer from kidney stones and and she stopped playing at the beginning and progressively became ill to the point she couldn’t pee so don’t worry to much as he sounds like he is doing really well just make sure he doesn’t eat dried food as the vet stated good advice…
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