Does my kitty own a uti?
For the past week my Fudge-Ums has been squatting around the house, wet a tiny bit here and there, he leaves tiny little puddles in his litter box. He has a vet appointment tonight but i be just curious if this sounds like a uti? I'm not certain if it matters but he is approximately 2 years old and have been eating as usual. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Its critical for males to get them to a vet quickly when they are not peeing right. If they block and cannot pee, you can lose them in days.
More then likely he have UTI and hopefully you won't have too much expense. If the vet has to catherize him you are talking roughly an expensive vet trip.
If he's got UTI, you will have to medicate him for about 10-14 days and probably he will inevitability to be put on a special urinary diet.
Our Oci got one when he was about 18 months old-fashioned - he's on Royal Canin for Urinary and also limited to certain kinds of can food. Luckily he's never had a repeat of UTI since on the special foods.
I noticed him going in an out of the tub with little to no results like 4-5 times in a few hours. I know enough to get him to the vet first thing within the morning.
Definitely seems approaching a UTI. The vet will prescribe antibiotics and that should clear it up.
If you are feeding your cat dry cat food, you should switch over to a grain free canned diet. Cats are obligate carnivores (meaning they must guzzle meat), and as descendants of desert animals, have a very low thirst drive, and dry foods dehydrate them. By feeding can food you are meeting most of their water needs, which help prevent UTI's and blockages.
Good grain free foods are Wellness, Innova Evo and Fancy Feast. Some people don't like Fancy Feast because it have by products, but I think it's a good moderately priced food.
Here is more info on feed your cat: http://catinfo.org There is also information on more grain free foods.
Really consider a diet change. You will be amazed at the difference in your cat. Hope he feel better soon!
PS-you may want to confine him to a room with a litter box until he stops squatting everywhere. Messy!
It sounds as though to be it's a Cystitis, It's an infection in the bladder which is sometimes caused by stress. My cat have this and she had some antibiotics and it cleared.
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Purr,
It is a really good thing that you have an appointment next to your vet tonight. From what you describe it sounds like this is definitely some kind of urinary tract problem, which could stock from a small blockage, to chrystals in his bladder, which are quite painful, to an infection.
Some foods can mete out chrystals to form. I had a cat who, at age 2 was demonstrating the same problem, and after we treated him for struvite chrystals and changed his diet to a grainless moist food, we never have the problem develop again.
Here is the "granddaddy" of resource links about feline urinary tract conditions. It is really excellent.
http://www.newmanveterinary.com/flutd.ht...
Talk to your vet about diet and consider shifting him over to moist, grainless catfood, if it is a chrystal problem.
Good luck,
Troublesniffer
Owned by cats for over 40 years
Freelance writer/blogger for http:/www.petside.com/
Sometimes dry cat food will stop up their little urethra and they can't go...ask the vet about feed when you take the kitty for his exam...but it sounds like the blockage from the dry cat food...
If Fudge-Ums (hee!) is urinating or trying to urinate often and pee doesn't always come out, it sounds to be most probable a bladder infection for which he will receive antibiotics.
Good luck, Fudge-Ums (love the name!)!
Answers: It could be full-blown infection but not necessarily. It is plainly a urinary problem and must be taken care of so it is good you are taking him to the vet.
My cat went into full urinary blockage but he did not own an infection. His problem was struvite crystals. While he was in hospital I search online for info regarding urinary tract infections and urinary blockage in cats. This is a very risky condition, especially for a male cat. In my research, I found a lot of information just about cat nutrition and had to admit that my kitty got sick because he have been eating mostly dry food. Even though I was giving him a glorious quality dry food, he developed urinary crystals because he was chronically dehydrated. Dry food is the culprit contained by most cases of UTI and/or urinary blockage.
Whether your cat has a UTI or just crystals that are causing a partial blockage, the vet might propose a prescription food for him. Be wary of that advice. Those prescription diets are usually not nutritious and you would not want your kitty ingestion that stuff long-term. Especially if the food is a dry food...do not feed him that even temporarily, even if the vet pushes it. Urinary tract problems normally stem from urine that is too alkaline and vets like to put cats on urine-acidifying food to prevent crystals from forming. However, that's adjectives the food does for the cat; it does not offer proper nutrition long term. A proper diet of meat (no fish!) is the best way to keep hold of a cat's urine from becoming either too acidic or too akaline.
To prevent adjectives urinary tract issues, feed only wet food, any raw or a premium canned food. Grain-free is best. My vet prescribed Hills' Prescription S/D for my cat when he was released from hospital. She refuse to release him unless I took the food, so I took it, but I never fed him any. I threw the whole bag within the trash and instead put him on a quality wet food diet. He has be healthy and happy ever since.
