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Need Help with Sick Cat
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Deplorable NO MORE Michele B |
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UTI blockages are common in male cats due to diet alone( specifically dry kibble with non meat ingredients), pure meat eaters have a hard time digesting anything but meat. If it's totally blocked it can be fatal( sound like its urinating so good). I worked at a vet hospital in the late 80's early 90's, AFTER the blockage has been addressed you will need to change the brand of
dry kibble you feed him, as someone stated above they now make a dry kibble exclusively for this, you will need to give him a high acidic canned food daily for a couple weeks usual the liver kidney mix of chicken or beef is what the Vet would recommend, then once its better at least 2 times a week for the canned product.
good luck
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 46203780 I meant to address this, too. My cats are VERY finicky, and DO NOT like "wet" food, such as canned. It would sit and sit and dry out and turn to crust before they'd touch it! I will have to look into the specific dry kibble suggested, tho. BTW - he has an appointment to see the vet this afternoon (soonest they could fit him in). I wasn't thinking it was a good idea to feed him (HOPING he doesn't need emergency surgery....), but he seems to have settled down since I gave him something. It's a "gravy" thing? I have a few packages of it left from an OLD, OLD cat we had who died a few months back. It's very expensive, so I don't want to have to make it a permanent food (there are 6 cats here!), but I gave it to him as a treat, and I'm glad he ate it. He literally licked the bowl so clean you could use it again! I guess he was hungry! I hope he doesn't need surgery later, as I probably shouldn't have fed him, but he seemed so pitiful, and I knew he hadn't eaten. Gave himself a bath and sleeping now. At least he's not straining to go for awhile now.
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