Reply #2: Wishing you the bet on dealing with UTI fun stuff.... [View All]

[moriah]

Our Ninja is about to be having to have surgery -- he had stones, but they seemed to come back more often when he had an infection. The pH of the urine is altered when they're infected and they're more likely to get crystals and stones. He'd gotten blocked twice, and then the third time he stopped peeing was when he was just so inflamed and painful that he didn't want to go, and when he could he couldn't squeeze the urine out due to the inflammation.

Unfortunately he can't seem to kick this infection. He'd chosen the couch as his favorite place, which we'd covered with the puppy pads, but he's starting to go in the box more. The puppy pads save our furniture but they are not fun to clean up!

When we can get this infection beat, they're going to schedule the surgery to keep him from getting blocked again. We've also been feeding him the prescription diet, which has helped with the crystals but not with the infection. They switched antibiotics, so we're hoping it'll work.

We've set up two boxes to give him an alternate place when his little brain equated the litter box with pain... and we've been giving him an antiinflammatory medicine twice a week that the vet recommended. Kitties have such delicate systems and they can't tolerate the medicines really well, this one is rather dangerous but he's in such pain that I feel it's more humane to risk the kidney problems it can cause (it's called Metacam, you can Google the horror stories with it -- that's why he only gets 3 drops twice a week in his food) than it would be to let him go without relief.