last night my cat started peeing blood so we took him to the emergency vet and they said he had a uti and some kind of crystals in his bladder. they gave us antibiotics for the infection and some special food to help with the crystals.
my question is for anyone else who has experienced this. how long does it take for my cat to start urinating normally again? he's been going a little bit, but it's mostly dribbles (no blood, i checked) and sometimes he squats like he has to go but nothing comes out. the vet said this was normal but didn't say how long it would take for him to go back to normal again. anyone know?
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I had this problem with one of my cats a couple of years ago. Follow the vets plan. Usually takes a day or two for your cat to start urinating normally again. If this doesn't happen then take him back to the vet without delay.
Be careful of the special food, this tends to be very fattening so follow the feeding instructions closely. He will most likely need to continue on this diet for the rest of his life...
What is your cat eating? I wouldn't feed any of the recalled product and if your Vet is selling Science Diet or some other type of food that has been recalled, you might not be getting the full story.
Check this site out and don't feed your cat anything that contains vegetable protein that isn't U.S. product. Call the food company and ask them, point blank, whether all their vegetable protein, incl. rice, corn, soy, wheat, is from U.S. only. If they say no, don't feed that to your cat. If they say that it is U.S. product, ask them to please verify that in writing by sending you an e-mail stating this.
Some foods that are safe so far are Wellness, Newman's Own, AvoDerm
But check out this site please!
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We have a male cat who has had these problems since he was a kitten. The food that we've sworn by for him is ProPlan Urinary Tract. You should be able to find it in any pet store. As far as I'm aware it's not on the recall list either. Your cat will get better it's just gonna take a few days.
Ger him off of dry food completely and feed either meat based canned, raw, or a combination of the two.
Here is Dr. Lisa's site which goes over diet and urinary tract health, as well as the basics of fline nutrition:
http://www.catinfo.org/index.htm...
Here is good info on appropriate raw diets for felines:
http://www.rawfedcats.org/
Good luck!
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There can be scarring that would prevent him from having a normal stream of urine. Has your cat been neutered? You need to call your vet and ask the questions.
There is NO way I would reccomend feeding Pro Plan to this or any cat. This is a grain based, very high carbohydrate food. Here are the main ingredients:
Corn gluten meal, chicken, wheat flour, brewers rice, ground yellow corn...
Cats are obligate carnivores and should be fed as such. As has been said before, the main concern is getting this kitty hydrated. Kibble fed cats suffer from chronic, low level dehydration which causes unblances in urinary tract pH. Cats are meant to get their moisture from their food. The key to cat nutrition is
***low carbohydrate content (the average mouse has about 3% carbohydrates, the food above have over 65%)
***high moisture content (the averagte mouse has about 70% moisture- the food above has about 10%)
Good luck with your kitty!
You have some great answers here already. It doesn't make sense to me that vets prescribe dry foods for them when dry food may be the cause of the crystals in the first place. You need to feed canned foods without gravy. Dry food has most of the water sucked out in the processing and your cat gets m,ost of the fluids it needs from eating.
EDIT: Sorry, but you obviously know nothing about proper cat nutrition. Rather than being offended, you should at LEAST have taken the advice in the manner in which it was intended.
Instead, your ignorance and stubbornness are sentencing your poor cat to eating the equivalent of MacDonald's food for the rest of its nutritionally-deficient life.
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Vets, vets, vets! *shakes head*
They do know what they're doing - EXCEPT when it comes to nutrition (in many cases).
I can't answer your question per se, but I wanted to address the big picture. Which is your cat's diet.
Cats are carnivores who have been designed to get nearly all the moisture they need IN their food. As a consequence they have a low thirst drive and don't drink as much water as they need. This in turn causes their urine to be more concentrated, which can lead to these urinary issues.
The solution for this is not to feed some expensive vet-approved food - or even the Purina - but to get your cat properly hydrated!
The way to do that - since you can lead a cat to water but can't make him drink - is to feed moist food. This will either be a canned food or a raw meat diet.
Feeding raw is not something to be undertaken lightly, so I won't go into that here - although there are resources out there should you want to learn more.
I do recommend at least switching your cat to an all canned diet. Make this change slowly as sudden changes in diet can cause digestive upsets.
I did this myself, and I also have a cat with urinary issues. But now that she's eating strictly canned food, she's just fine. After about a week on this diet, I even noticed that her urine smelled different - it was less strong.
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