I am wondering whether this sounds like a urinary tract infection? Or could this be leading up to a blockage? Mingy (male) has been spending a long time in the box/halfway in the litterbox, and yesterday I caught him urinating a bit on the floor right after he got out of the box. I also stepped...

Without warning, My Sammy developed a blockage and was unable to urinate. This started at 9pm and by midnight I was hysterical. He was trying so hard. He sat down on the middle of the floor, lifted his head up, opened his mouth and shook his head. I knew i had to get help for him immediately. The...

Hi My cat(Ernie) has had to have a couple of emergency ops due to crystal build up. We have been feeding him on a dry PH controlled food since his first diagnosis and now the vet is saying feed him the wet food version. All this PH balanced food is extremely expensive(which I don't mind paying...

My Samba, a five and a half year old female who was spayed at six months, has recently started peeing inappropriately at sporadic intervals. Over the space of the last several weeks, she has several times pulled a towel off the towel rack in the bathroom and, in three cases, has peed on the towel....

Meep continues to not pee. It sounds like urinary retention, which in humans is a side effect of Tramadol, but the way I understand it is with urinary retention you *want* to pee, but cannot. Meep doesn't seem to have the urge, even though she'll crouch if her full bladder is gently palpated. ...

Hallo Problem with my 3-year old female kitty. For about the last 3 or so weeks she's been having a problem with urination. She will go to the box and crouch like she is urinating, but without any discharge. She will stay like this for several minutes, finally seeming to give up and crying a...

Can anyone advise me? I have a 2 yr, 9mo. old male long hair cat. He has always been perfectly healthy. Yesterday, he kept going to the littlebox, crouching as if he needed to urinate, but nothing came out, or only a drop would come out. He did this at least 5 times over a four hour period. He...

Does any one have any recomendations for the "best" product? Also, products for use on blankets, etc (Like cna go in the wash - such as bleach?) Thanks Cattgirlie -- Message posted via CatKB.com http://www.catkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/cat-health/200511/1

Poor Meep. We had to go to the emergency vet once again, as not only had she not peed for two days (one day hasn't been unusual for her and the vet is aware), but she was starting to look really uncomfortable. She was exhibiting none of her usual cystitis symptoms, in fact hadn't even been to...

Most, but not all, urinary diets available now are combo diets that prevent both struvite and CaOx. In cats who have an enlarged kidney from ureteral calculi, but have normal blood results (especially BUN and creatinine), is there any risk of developing CRF from these urinary foods? I'm looking at...

My cat was having some peeing problems last night so I took him to the emergency vet. They said that he was blocked and catheterized him. The urine sample showed that he had urinary crystals. They kept him overnight and I got him back tonight. They sedated him so that they could examine him...

Has anyone any idea how to prevent these problems in castrated cats? Spirit will be the first castrated male I've had since the 1960s. I had a male with endless urethral blockage problems back then and I vowed I'd never adopt another male cat or have one "fixed." Now I find myself probably...

So, my cat developed a urinary blockage. Quite a mess. Lots of blood and 2 1/2 days in the hospital. So, they said it could happen again. They suggested my cat was under stress and had anxiety? So, I am giving my cat Alprazolan for anxiety and Clomipramine for stress! They said the next two...

It happens to females as well. Came this !! close to losing her. Naturally it happened on a holiday -Memorial day when my regular vet was closed. Saw her acting strange that morning but I had to go out for a while. Came home about 11AM and she seemed worse. It seemed all to familiar as I had the...

I had to bring Elwood into the emergency clinic tonight. It started when I got home this afternoon, I noticed he was kind of crawling around, and crying. So, I brought him in, and they say he has a urinary blockage, and they have to keep him overnight. What causes this? They told me it jujst sort...

Is it necessary to use prescription wet food for a cat who's blocked or will any quality wet food do as well? The cat has been to the vet, been unblocked and sent home on antibiotics and anti-spasmodics. W

Hi I am new to this forum, and having a problem with me kitty. Last weekend he spent 3 days at the vets with a urinary blockage. It was caught in time, but he was catheterized for almost the whole three days while they got him dehydrated & his kidney levels back to normal. Now he is home and on...

As I posted in another thread, I will be starting Alex on subcu fluids tomorrow and made an appointment to meet with the veterinary tech. As planned, I decided to phone the vet hospital to see if his urine could be tested for melamine or its derivatives. The secretary told me that the vet...

Urinalysis Drug Tests Testing is most frequently performed on small samples of urine, although hair, saliva, and blood can also be used. Urine samples are collected by personnel under carefully controlled circumstances to avoid mismatches resulting in false positives, and to prevent adulteration...

We have a 4.5 lb, 5 month old kitten who has developed a respiratory infection. We rushed to the vet yesterday, and she is on oral antibiotics and eye drops. She is just miserable. She can't breathe through her nose much and at times breathes through her mouth. Her eyes are running. Yesterday,...