Hopitus wrote:
when my male cats got blocked (long
time ago, in 80's and 90's) vets in s.FL did
some kinda surgery that (not to get
obscene here) actually "made him a girl"
and forever made blockage extremely
unlikely....former boycats peed like girls
after the whole thing (I personally never
understood what this surgery consisted of,
just happy cats' lives were saved). Did -
for all that $ - vet "make him a girl"
urinary-wise?

No. The procedure is called perineal urethrostomy and is simply removal
of the penis in order to make the urethral opening wider, which in turn
helps to prevent blockages from happening. This surgery should be
considered only as an absolute last resort as there are many other
problems including recurring infection that can result from the surgery.
Doing things like increasing water intake by completely eliminating dry
food and feeding only high quality canned food, eliminating free-feeding
(which happens when you feed canned anyway,) watching magnesium content
and monitoring urine ph are very helpful in preventing reocurrences.
In other words, despite the surgery, your cats were still "all man." ;-)

Megan



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