Take Your Cat To The Vet Day 2024 is on Thursday, August 22, 2024: my cat has been at the vets for 3 days because he could not urinate,?

Thursday, August 22, 2024 is Take Your Cat To The Vet Day 2024. Take your cat to the vet week - Mousebreath Magazine national take your cat to the

I don't know how much your vet charges but my bill after a 3 day catheder hospital stay with xrays was $380.00 after it was all said and done.

So I've been there, done this too. :o( I have 2 males who I almost lost to FLUTD, struvite crystals, bladder and kidney stones. I managed to cure both of them naturally (with the guidance of my vet) by feeding a species appropriate Raw food diet and adding in a regimen of natural supplements.

My biggest piece of advice is if your vet advises you to use a “prescription diet” food do NOT listen to them. Vets that prescribe dry prescription foods and even canned prescription diets as the mainstay of the diet clearly know nothing about feline nutrition. Most never learned anything except what the cat food companies teach them. *roll eyes here* Any vet that would tell you to put your already sick cat on a garbage food made with cheap fillers like Hills Science Diet, Royal Canin, or Purina Prescription clearly knows NOTHING about cats nutritional needs.

Cats were never designed to eat dry food. NEVER. They eat their prey whole and wet. Cats do not have a thirst mechanism. So because of all that… cats are designed to eat only wet food. We idiot humans feed dry only for our convenience. Shows how much we used to know, huh?

Because of all the above, we, by feeding Dry bagged foods, are usually the cause of all UTI issues in cats. They do not take in enough water on a dry diet and so their systems do not fully flush out so they get UTI issues.

What you need to do asap is unconcentrate the urine and flush the system. To do that you need to stop feeding all dry foods and switch to an all wet diet. Either a canned diet or Raw. Did your vet recommend that? Wet food will help flush the system faster so that crystals and bacteria can not form.

Get your kitty on a STRICKTLY wet food diet. Either high quality canned, or a raw diet. It’s not cheap but it will cost you less in the long run than the vet. You can learn about raw food at www.catinfo.org and www.catnutrition.org or canned… choose Wellness, Merrick, Drs Foster and Smith or something with those matching ingredients.

No matter which you choose… no more dry food for your cat ever. Wet food only!

I’ve also had success using Glucosomine and Chrondriton for preventing inflammation in the urethra. Discuss this with your vet and ask them to look into it. There are some major feline studies being done on this that are VERY promising!

If your kittys urine needs more acidity because of struvite Crystals you can also add dry cranberry extract, just a pinch 2X a day on wet food. And you can try a pinch of Vitamin C sprinkled on as well.

Give your kitty distilled water to drink only. Both my vet and I are convinced after speaking with vets all over the county that the hardness and mineral content in water in different areas contributes to the # of cases of UTI’s in those areas. From here on out… distilled water only. Another suggestion… is to get kitty a water fountain. I bought the Bigdog Drinkwell for my cats and keep it filled with distilled water and they love it. It’s a great way to encourage their water consumption.

Lastly, get yourself a bag of scientific litter so you can keep track of kittys PH levels at home. You won’t be able to detect the crystals at home that cause blockages, but if the ph was off… you could get kitty in for a urine analysis right away and possibly head off a blockage.

Good luck!

so i took my cat to the vet, but 2 days later she still dies,... ideas y?

Sometimes cats have certain diseases that have little or no warning signs - they could be fine one day and dead the next. It is rare, but it happens. It could be that the fight stressed her out too much, that the vet work added onto the stress, or even a bad reaction to medication - there is no way to tell. It sounds like you did everything you could to help her get better and make her feel comfortable.

If she was not vaccinated, she could have caught something from the cat she fought with and that could be what killer her, but 2 days sounds a bit quick for a virus to incubate. The bottom line is that she is not suffering anymore, she is at peace. You did what you could and she knew you were trying to save her. For the future, however, try not and let your cats out if it isn't safe (for example, if you don't have fences or if there is a stray cat in the area).

Sister cats, one hissing at the other after coming back from the vet after 5 days, why?

Five days in a cat's life is a very long time.

Plus, Tater Tot now smells differently to Smokey. And it could bet the vet's office, but since cats depend on smell more than sight when it comes to familiarity, I'd say it's just plain caution and suspicion due to the five days of absence.

Every day when I come home from work, my four have to sniff me to make absolutely sure I am "the same pet" that had left earlier that day. And to add to the scent thing, they go absolutely crazy when i get out of the shower. They don't like the "new" smell I have on me so they first seem hesitate of me and then proceed to rub their scent all over me again.

So, with time, they will reacquaint themselves and life will be back to normal.

Hope this helps.