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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She was treated for a urinary tract infection yesterday. I know she was lethargic and drinking a lot of water, so we’ll have to wait and see if she has beginning stages of kidney disease. She’ll be fine, but I won’t. I am pooped. She was up 3 separate times meowing last night. I think she’s happy. Maybe she was in pain for a while and is now relieved the pain went away. Have you folks ever dealt with something like this? Normally she goes to sleep with me. It was weird.
She was at home and didn’t stay overnight at the vet. I was trying to sleep. The twit kept waking me up. When I tried to get her to stop, she seemed like she just wanted to play.
Yes, they did a ton of blood work. Three hundred bucks worth and now I have to put her on pricier food from them for cats with kidney issues. My other cat’s a mut and dang—she NEVER has any problems.

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I just adopted two cats from my local humane society. I was told that they had both been wormed. I was also told that the female had bladder stones and was prone to urinary tract infections so I had to keep her on wet food diet for the rest of her life.
After about a week, and two containers of litter, she started peeing all over the house. One day, she squatted right in front of me in the laundry room and peed. I scolded her and put her in the litter box. When I went to clean up the mess, I saw worms in her urine. I was told by the humane society that she had bladder worms, but to be sure, they wanted me to take her to the vet who diagnosed her with kidney stones, at my cost.
All of the research I’ve done on bladder worms says that it’s extremely rare and that there is no treatment/cure. Should I take her to this vet, who is expensive, at my cost if there really is no treatment/cure? Should I give her back to the humane society? Should I worm her myself and hope for the best? Will my other cat get these worms?
I’ve been wavering in my decision for a week now, and I could use the help. Thank you in advance.

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I dont want my severe kidney disease suffering cat to receive the subcutaneous fluid therapy (sub-Q) because it would be too painful for her and she is 15 years old and suffers a heart murmur (a sort of heart condition). I’ve been told cats who suffer from a heart condition shouldn’t receive this sub-Q treatment because it’s dangerous. I need to know what other options are out there instead of the subcutaneous fluid therapy/liquid (sub-q), there has to be other options. The vet i’m taking her with isn’t very helpful he offered that option, and I really need to know what to do so her kidneys get better fast, right now she doesn’t have a treatment or an adequate diet:-( I need urgent speedy help to find a better vet (preferably holistic) in Chicago. If anyone knows please let me know i’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

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One of our cats has been through two courses of antibiotics in the past month, as they had diagnosed her with urinary tract infection.

When that still didn’t curb the inappropriate urination (with some blood in it), the vet decided to x-ray & found a kidney stone, today.

We know that very expensive surgery is an option to treat this. What I’d like to know from everyone who answers is whether you’ve heard of or experienced any other, less expensive but successful, methods of treating kidney stones in cats.

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