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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I have a 10 month old male domestic short-hair. I have had him every since he was about 4 weeks old (Me and my roommate discovered him outside alone, he was abandoned by his stray mother). For about half his life, he would only eat wet cat food, he would go hungry before tasting the dry stuff. One day my mom bought him "The Goodlife Recipe" and he actually loved it! I no longer had to mix his wet food with his dry food to get him to eat the stuff. Now I’m at a dilemma. My kitten’s current diet is 2 pouches of wet cad food, one in the morning, one at night, while he also has a bowl of dry food out at all times for "grazing" in between meals. Some one told me the other day that wet cat food can cause kidney stones in male cats because males’ urethea has a funnel effect. I reseached this and my research tells me that DRY FOOD actually does this to cats. My roommate tells me wet food is bad because its harder to digest, but i know dry food can’t be goos for cats either, just from common sense! So can anyone set me straight here? I really want to keep my cat on a regular diet of wet food because my sense tells me thats what is best for him. Should i have any worries?
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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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My 7 year-old cat weighs 16.4lbs. He is on a diet of Urinary-Tract formula only, he had to have an operation because of kidney stones. He has to eat urinary-tract formula so he does not get kidney infections. He is also a strictly inside cat. I have tried hiding the treats from my parents (they feed him way to many), but I think he has just started eating more food to compensate for this. Any ideas on how to make him loose weight.
Picture of him: http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb149/Grimmjow1993/DSCF7397.jpg
Thanks for the info, One problem he will almost never eat wet food, so how can I get him to like it.
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