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My guy will still eat his wet c/d, although we're going to switch him to another brand of canned food (Trader Joe's chicken), since he prefers his brother's canned food rather than the c/d. After a few weeks, I'm going to take him in for another crystal check to make sure that the increased wet food is enough to keep him crystal free. I will say that after increasing the wet food for both of my cats, they've both stopped having hairball problems.
Just keep bonding with your kitty! Mine has the same level of affection as prior to the surgery.
My Maine coon is licking often after his PU surgery several months ago. I am wondering if it is his fur so long growing oddly where it is not intended.
Does my boy need a brazilian? Seriously, wondering if I should have him clipped in that area. the problem is that he bites! Yes, he bites me too! Not always but he is a mischief maker. I thought maybe that all these years (he is now going on 12 this year 2014) he was mean due to the bladder stones but sadly...he is still moody and bites.
The one vet had him hobbled. Terrible sight to see. he had on two cones and even with being hobbled (legs tied with tape and arms tied with tape), he got out of both cones and tried to attack the vet. Not happy with the hobble deal no matter what and I understand why he wanted to be free as well as he was so sick and scared. When I was there to begin with...I was able to gentlely place my cat into the clear box to put him under for treatment. Imagaine when I return to find him hobbled and insane and told to take him to the ER vet or he will die. Rough few weeks!
Seems to be doing well except for all the licking and his bum seems wet constantly.
Thanks for the forum. Good to hear others stories!
My Maine coon is licking often after his PU surgery several months ago. I am wondering if it is his fur so long growing oddly where it is not intended.
Does my boy need a brazilian? Seriously, wondering if I should have him clipped in that area.
My vet was able to give my cat a hair cut down there (I think they actually plucked some fur, too), but he's not super aggressive. I also took him to a cats only vet, which I think made a difference. They know how to handle cats better than all purpose vets. It's a bit out of my way to take him there, but thankfully the cost is almost the same. The first cat I ever had sounds like your guy at the vet. He would bite/attack everyone but me!
My cat blocked 10 days ago after no success with keeping him unblocked I opted for PU surgery. It has been 8 days post op just barely coming home with catheter in. Catheter fell out because of the amnt of urine flowing from the side of catheter. Also catheter cont. to block so hospital flushing every other day or at times daily. Peeing tsp. amounts at a time, hoping this continues so don't have to catheter reinserted. Anyone out there have this happen? I did get him in time so no kidney damage occurred. He is on s/d diet feeding wet only to keep enough moisture. Surgery healed well, only peeing tsp at a time now. My poor boy doesn't like to be touched and screamed everytime the technicians touched him, rescued at 1 wk old and now about 6. Please anyone have this problem??🙀
Hi - My cat, Bogey (I call him Bo Bo Bear) is in surgery at this moment. I just transferred him to a Vet Clinic from the Emergency Animal Hospital, where he was a patient for 8 days. I hate that I had to have him operated on, but, during the week that he was in the hospital he had to be cathed six (6) times. Every time they would remove the cath to see if he could urinate on his own, he would get blocked with gunk and crystals. He's only about 16 months old, so I still consider him a kitten and couldn't bear to have him put down unless nothing could be done to help him. We also have 5 other cats (all female) and two female dogs that are quite old. Everyone gets along great and Bogey's "sisters" are all wondering where he is. I pray that this operation helps him. My husband and I have cleaned out our grandson's bedroom (our spare bedroom) and Bogey will recover in there, away from the curious eyes of the females in the house. He will have his own litter box, gravity water bowl and his new special food for cats that have his urinary disease (the crystals, etc.). If you can think of anything that might help us with his recovery, once he is home, I would so appreciate it. Never having gone through this before is so scary, not only for him, but for us too. Praying that this works to end the UTIs and the obstructions. <3
Hi - My cat, Bogey (I call him Bo Bo Bear) is in surgery at this moment. I just transferred him to a Vet Clinic from the Emergency Animal Hospital, where he was a patient for 8 days. I hate that I had to have him operated on, but, during the week that he was in the hospital he had to be cathed six (6) times. Every time they would remove the cath to see if he could urinate on his own, he would get blocked with gunk and crystals. He's only about 16 months old, so I still consider him a kitten and couldn't bear to have him put down unless nothing could be done to help him. We also have 5 other cats (all female) and two female dogs that are quite old. Everyone gets along great and Bogey's "sisters" are all wondering where he is. I pray that this operation helps him. My husband and I have cleaned out our grandson's bedroom (our spare bedroom) and Bogey will recover in there, away from the curious eyes of the females in the house. He will have his own litter box, gravity water bowl and his new special food for cats that have his urinary disease (the crystals, etc.). If you can think of anything that might help us with his recovery, once he is home, I would so appreciate it. Never having gone through this before is so scary, not only for him, but for us too. Praying that this works to end the UTIs and the obstructions. <3
Some of us here have become believers in an all wet diet for cats, mostly because of www.catinfo.org.
If you haven't read it already...this is what convinced me. It's highly relevant to anyone whose cat has had urinary tract issues:
Your vet may attempt to put your cat on a special diet, it might be Hills which is very high in carbs. The very common thinking is to control the chemistry of the food such as pH in these cases...but sometimes the problem is more what kind of food it is (dry, or of a composition not natural to cats.) I believe that no cat should eat dry food, unless the owner simply can't afford anything else and it's that or nothing. But a cat who has had urinary tract obstruction with or without surgery...really, REALLY shouldn't.
So my guy came down with a UTI at the start of March. He was still eating and drinking, playing a bit and hanging out with us, but he just seemed a bit off. I didn't notice until I saw him in the litter box where he was trying to pee, but it was very slow, then there was a bit of blood in his urine. I felt so awful for not having known sooner. We took him straight to the vet, they gave him antibiotics, and he's fine now.
My question is this: how can I tell when he's just being a cat vs. when he's actually sick? I feel like I'm spending all my time at home starting at him, puzzling over everything he does, and watching him in the cat box. I tend to be anxious and nervous about things, so I can't tell if it's just me being crazy, or if it's him feeling sick. Ever since he had his PU surgery, I feel constantly worried that he will have some other health issue that I might not catch if I'm not vigilantly watching him. It's making me (and my husband) crazy and it's exhausting. I know many cats have had this surgery and lived long, happy, healthy lives afterwards, but my brain still wont let me relax. Has anyone else had this problem? How are you dealing with it?
What I noticed with my boy is he gets a little wet back there when he pees. That never happened with a penis and a stream (sorry to be so blunt) He is not overweight but a little fat in that area. He seems to immediately clean himself after he goes to the box and I think that wet bottom is why. Getting rid of dry food will get rid of extra weight on cats. Mine are and always have been raw fed and none overweight. Even very old ones. Fat cats are cute but it is bad news for their health. Not that yours is, just explaining anatomy after a PU and possible cause for licking.
I have fairly recently (6 months ago) switched my cats to an all wet diet, and am curious: how many of you who have cats with obstruction issues were feeding a dry diet prior to the surgery? I was convinced after reading Lisa persons website to stop feeding dry. Her website says it is rare for cats eating a wet diet to experience these issues. Is that true? I have 2 male cats- a 13 YO and a kitten.
I am the original poster to this thread. For the past TWO YEARS, my cat has suffered through mysterious symptoms and issues that no vet could puzzle out. He started having extreme pain after urinating, to the point that he could barely walk after trying to pee. My vet (not the place that performed the PU) thought that maybe something was wrong with the original surgery. She tried to catheterize him and couldn't, which defeats the purpose of the PU surgery in the first place!
We took our cat to a specialist and had the surgery done after a consult with her. She found that the original surgeon had left a suture inside of him, incorrectly attached his urethra, and sealed the surgery site in such a way that my cats fur was growing inward. All of this caused large amounts of scar tissue. The specialist cleaned all of this out, and now, two weeks after this mulligan surgery, my cat seems so much happier and healthier. He's peeing normally (a steam, not little dribbles!) which is AMAZING. He's going once rather than several times.
If your cat is exhibiting unusual behavior after his PU surgery, consider questioning this with your vet. At this point, we are going to follow up with the original surgeon to see what he has to say for his actions. We had taken our cat back several times after the initial surgery due to his rough recovery, and they insisted that everything was fine. They took away two years from our cat and caused us so much emotional stress, not to mention the enormous amount of money we have had to spend on vet visits and the 2nd surgery.
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