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CatFilter: Help! One of my male cats has FLUTD/FUS and I'm at my wits end try to deal with it.

pghjezebel — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:33:19 -0800

CatFilter: Help! One of my male cats has FLUTD/FUS and I'm at my wits end try to deal with it. Both of my male cats suffer from FLUTD/FUS. One has been in good health for several years now. The other has been through several episodes in regards to FLUTD.

This most recent episode has lasted more than two weeks now. He's been to our normal vet several times. Since they know his history, they keep telling me to just "wait it out". They've put him on a light pain killer and Phenoxybenzamine (to relax the bladder). He's also been there three additional times so they could re-hydrate him as his interest in food/water is minimal at the moment.

I also took him an kitty ER one night because I was getting worried about him. They found he had an infection (put him on antibiotics), and has Struvite crystals in his urine. Bladder was clear and in good shape other than being inflamed. He was also backed up, so they did an enema on him as well. Then they recommended putting him on a prescription diet for cats that suffer from FLUTD.

That in itself poses a problem because both of my boys have food allergies. It took me a long time to get them on a diet (Duck and Pea dry food) that didn't make them throw up. I've heard dry diets are bad for cats with FLUTD so I gave the wet prescription a try anyway. Neither cat was horribly interested in it. And my regular vet recommended keeping them on the Duck and Pea since it did take a long time to find a good that didnt make them sick.

At home, I've been trying to deal with by confining him to a room with multiple litter boxes/ food/water (since he is straining to urinate all over the house). We've had to move him several times already because every room we put him in, he literally uses the whole room as his litter box. He's very slowly ruining our house.

Have any other owners out there dealt with this before? Or anything similar? Any tips, suggestions? I feel like I've tried everything and I'm not sure how much longer I'm supposed to "wait it out". The vet bills have cost a small fortune so far, the house is turning into a litter box, and the stress of dealing with this is getting to me as well as the cat.

What's up with my weirdo kitten?

sunimplodes — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:26:12 -0800

A couple of questions from a new cat owner. I have a 14-week old early-neuter long-haired orange male tabby. We bought him at 11 weeks from a cat rescue program who had him neutered, dewormed, and got him all his shots. He's exhibiting a few strange behaviors, and I'm having trouble finding answers on the internet, in that most of the stuff I'm finding doesn't seem to quite fit his behavior.

1. The last few days, he seems to have an excess of dark brown earwax coming out of one of his ears. We've gently cleaned him out with a q-tip, but I'm wondering if this is normal, or an indicator of ear mites or some other problem.

2. He makes a lof of unusual mewing sounds, specifically when he's hyper and running around, and also whenever he jumps, but there don't seem to be any physical indications of pain, as he's very playful, very friendly, and seems to have pretty normal body language.

3. He's been urinating out of place a little bit lately. He's very good about using his litter box, and it's cleaned daily, removing 2-4 "deposits" at a time. Nonetheless, he has peed on the couch a couple times, and also on some clothes in the bedroom more than once. It's infrequent. He seems friendly and happy, so I don't think it's a behavioral thing, and it doesn't seem frequent enough to be a urinary tract infection. Any ideas?

With all this said, we have an appointment scheduled at the vet, but I'm looking to go in with some idea of what's going on so I can ask better questions, and I'm also looking to see if there's anything I can do in the meantime.

Thanks!

How can you overcome pee shyness in public urinals?

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:03:05 -0800

How can you overcome pee shyness in public urnials? As in, stepping to the plate, but being unable to pee until the bathroom is empty?

Why does humming make me have to pee?

bonheur — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:31:33 -0800

Humming noises make me have to pee. Does this happen to anyone else? What could be causing it? [more inside] I noticed that whenever I go into a certain room in my house (not the bathroom) I had the overwhelming urge to pee. Eventually I concluded that there was a fan in that room that was causing the problem. The low hum of the refrigerator does the same thing to me. Is this some kind of ingrained Pavlovian response, or is there another reason humming noises might send my bladder into overdrive?