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Have you tried changing the cat's diet? Look around on the internet for
info on this crystal problem and you may get some ideas of things you can add/delete from the cat's diet to help break these things up and stop them from reoccurring. Good luck LeeAnne "No One But Me" wrote in message ... Blankthis morning i took my cat, Joey (3 yrs old), to the vet for urinary crystals. this is the second time in 2 months. in order to get a catheter in to drain his bladder which was completely full, they had to sedate him ... and even then it took 1 hour just to get the catheter in! when i talked to the vet this afternoon, she said Joey was a good candidate for an operation which will relieve him of the crystals but which will turn him into a girl. said he would never again have this problem if he had that operation. i told her that i wanted to give him that operation and she said she would make arrangements for it when Joey gets better & is no longer inflamed. has anyone ever heard of this? barbara |
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Have you tried changing the cat's diet? Look around on the internet for
info on this crystal problem and you may get some ideas of things you can add/delete from the cat's diet to help break these things up and stop them from reoccurring. Good luck LeeAnne "No One But Me" wrote in message ... Blankthis morning i took my cat, Joey (3 yrs old), to the vet for urinary crystals. this is the second time in 2 months. in order to get a catheter in to drain his bladder which was completely full, they had to sedate him ... and even then it took 1 hour just to get the catheter in! when i talked to the vet this afternoon, she said Joey was a good candidate for an operation which will relieve him of the crystals but which will turn him into a girl. said he would never again have this problem if he had that operation. i told her that i wanted to give him that operation and she said she would make arrangements for it when Joey gets better & is no longer inflamed. has anyone ever heard of this? barbara |
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"LeeAnne" wrote in message ...
"No One But Me" wrote in message ... Blankthis morning i took my cat, Joey (3 yrs old), to the vet for urinary crystals. this is the second time in 2 months. in order to get a catheter in to drain his bladder which was completely full, they had to sedate him ... and even then it took 1 hour just to get the catheter in! when i talked to the vet this afternoon, she said Joey was a good candidate for an operation which will relieve him of the crystals but which will turn him into a girl. said he would never again have this problem if he had that operation. i told her that i wanted to give him that operation and she said she would make arrangements for it when Joey gets better & is no longer inflamed. has anyone ever heard of this? barbara Have you tried changing the cat's diet? Look around on the internet for info on this crystal problem and you may get some ideas of things you can add/delete from the cat's diet to help break these things up and stop them from reoccurring. Good luck LeeAnne Agreed... Many moons ago, I had a tomcat that had a problem with crystals... I know that Aryun already told me that watching the ash content in the food was false, but that is what the first vet we took Pharoh to told us to do... and it worked. He had one more incident of crystal blockage a few years later when we slipped up on the diet thing, but when we started watching it again, he never, ever got another crystal blockage. That vet told us to make sure that any canned food had an ash content of less than 3%, and we used a dry food that was made for cats with FUS. That was back when we were still feeding Hills CD. Now that I'm overhauling my nutrition program again, time will tell... :-) Pharoh passed away in my arms about 8 years ago at age 15. He never had to have any kind of surgery to control this problem! Please, please try diet changes before doing this. |
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"LeeAnne" wrote in message ...
"No One But Me" wrote in message ... Blankthis morning i took my cat, Joey (3 yrs old), to the vet for urinary crystals. this is the second time in 2 months. in order to get a catheter in to drain his bladder which was completely full, they had to sedate him ... and even then it took 1 hour just to get the catheter in! when i talked to the vet this afternoon, she said Joey was a good candidate for an operation which will relieve him of the crystals but which will turn him into a girl. said he would never again have this problem if he had that operation. i told her that i wanted to give him that operation and she said she would make arrangements for it when Joey gets better & is no longer inflamed. has anyone ever heard of this? barbara Have you tried changing the cat's diet? Look around on the internet for info on this crystal problem and you may get some ideas of things you can add/delete from the cat's diet to help break these things up and stop them from reoccurring. Good luck LeeAnne Agreed... Many moons ago, I had a tomcat that had a problem with crystals... I know that Aryun already told me that watching the ash content in the food was false, but that is what the first vet we took Pharoh to told us to do... and it worked. He had one more incident of crystal blockage a few years later when we slipped up on the diet thing, but when we started watching it again, he never, ever got another crystal blockage. That vet told us to make sure that any canned food had an ash content of less than 3%, and we used a dry food that was made for cats with FUS. That was back when we were still feeding Hills CD. Now that I'm overhauling my nutrition program again, time will tell... :-) Pharoh passed away in my arms about 8 years ago at age 15. He never had to have any kind of surgery to control this problem! Please, please try diet changes before doing this. |
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In , Katra
wrote: | Arjun Ray wrote: | So, as long as the "ash" content isn't dangerously unhealthy, you have | nothing to worry about as long as the cat ****es it out fast enough. | Barring other medical conditions, this *is* a sufficient answer. | So basically, she should quit feeding him dry food altogether and just | switch him to a good quality canned diet only? Right - the good quality will mean less ash and less (alkalizing) plant material, and the wetness will assure that the cat pees enough to get rid of waste products in a timely manner. Basically, crystals arise due to bad pH balance, relatively excessive mineral waste, and relatively inadequate hydration. See, e.g. http://www.maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.htm especially the section titled "Water Requirements". Here's a passage: : Diet moisture content is related to the observation that cats fed : dry food drink more than six times more water than cats fed canned : food but that much of this water contributes to fecal moisture so : that urine volume is lower and urine specific gravity higher in cats : fed dry food. The urine concentration of all solutes, including : potentially calculogenic crystalloids, depends on urine volume. : Cats increase voluntary water intake when fed dry food but not in : sufficient amounts to fully compensate for the lower moisture content : of the food. In a recent study, cats consuming a diet containing 10% : moisture with free access to drinking water had an average daily : urine volume of 63 milliliters (ml). This volume increased to 112 : ml/day when fed a canned diet with a moisture content of 75%. Urine : specific gravity was also higher in cats that were fed the low- : moisture food. Decreased urine volume may be an important risk : factor for the development of urolithiasis in cats. Diets that cause : a decrease in total fluid turnover can result in decreased urine : volume and increased urine concentration, both of which may : contribute to urinary tract disease in cats. Several studies have : shown that dry cat foods contribute to decreased fluid intake and : urine volume. |
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