Photorecon
Member Since 2016
Good morning everyone,
(This a long post with full context, jump after the paragraphs for straight to the point fact)
Writing you today regarding something that not to do with diabetes but that really is bringing me some deep concerns.. I found yesterday something anyone would have seen at his place. A few weeks ago I went on for a trip that lasted more than three weeks. A pet sitter was going home twice a day for the full period (to feed shoot and clean litter boxes). I don't remember, will need to verify my sms, but I don't think she warned me about something ''new''. Someone, Small Kitty or Big Brother, started peeing on the table and at some other location in the dinning room / kitchen. On my return I found the place smelling like bathroom that had never been cleaned. Both kitties are going out every night all year long.. Ok, they were mad at me cause they couldn't anymore and did that as a revenge...
Problem is, even when I came back with full release to the outside, petting and full petting were back in action, this happened again... The kitchen table was again the target... Added to the concern was the fackt that the litter boxes, usually filled to capacity every day, were left untouched... Something had to be done fast so I took Big Brother (one of my two cats, the none diabetic one) to the vet for inspection. During the trip to the place he filled the bottom of the bag with a full load of urine making urine analysis impossible once at the vet. As this was not the first time such event (peeing here and there) was happening, the vet concluded it was a comportment issue. His advice were to remove the litter box covers, add a new one away from food (one was already set that way) and give threat when they were used. Added to this she prescribed anti-depressor pills to help with depression or something like that. This fixed the problem, no pee on kitchen table or elsewhere. Gotcha !! Or so I thought. But, even after cleaning with different products, opening all windows 24/7 after a few days the terrible smell was always coming back. While searching for something yesterday, I went in the corner of the living room, behind a reading chair and found the worst thing I had never seen... Everything there, bags, magazine, the base of a lamp was soaked with urine !!! I was so bad that the wooden floor had started to wave. Disgusting, I just freaked out, so badly that I spent part of the entire night yesterday trying to fix this. I don't know if the place was still a open sky litter anymore but the amount of urine must have been big. Everything there was trashed including photography stuff and the lamp that had started to corrode.... Oufff...
Now that I know what happened, lately or some time ago.. Some current facts are coming to my mind.
1 : Since vet visit, with anti-depressant in action, the litter boxes started to be used again
2 : The amount of urine, from Small Kitty or Big Brother, is tyny, slightly bigger than a golf ball.
(Small Kitty used to drops used to be the size of a soft ball.)
(Big Brother, smaller)
3: The strategy of adding litter box and giving threats is in action, both kitties are very happy !
4 : Everyone is going out, and can release while outside, don't know. (Usually, even while going out the littler boxes would be full).
5 : With summer and warm temperature, both kitties are not eating very much and I never saw anybody drink. Fresh cold water replacing the old one everyday.
6 : There has been UTI in the past, and inappropriate urination here and there in the kitchen and dinning room.
One thing, that triggered the 911 post is the following : Since a few days, Small Kitty started meowing for nothing. I thought the threats were filled with addictive and he was asking for more. He got some but was told to shut it up when he resumed.
The big one now, this morning, after heating, I saw small kitty going to the litter box (good boy !) but.. he came out after less than a minute. When I checked the box I found there was nothing, no drop. He received he threats !. 2 min after, same thing, he went in the litter box and came out without any success.
Some would say, just go to the vet and you'll find the answer to your question... Problem is that I cannot skip office day, where I am right now. Also, if the same thing that is happening when I go to the vet, cats release in the bag and there is nothing to analyse... I go there, pay 150$, and go home empty handed with some theoretical reason I already know.
I saw one of the vet testing urine, he was using whatever sticks you call in fresh urine to see if there was chemical reaction to figure out if there was infection. This winter I went to the vet and urine was gathered and found to indicate UTI, antibiotic were administered.
As I have these sticks at home and antibiotics, all I needed was urine. As they all release when going to the vet, I took Small Kitty, put him in the transport bag with a pan at the bottom and went for a ride. I then wen tout as if we were going to the vet expecting there would be some urine dropped.. there wasn't. Not giving up, I went on the internet to find out how to find the bladder. If found that if you use your hand and moved up at the back of the rib case, you will find something, I did not. While doing the massaging there was no complain from Small Kitty so either the bladder was empty or filled to capacity. The case being, he would have had a pain and tried to get away, he didn't.. He was purring and seemed not to bother about anything.
I'm so confused about what's going on.. Is the peeing disaster a thing of the past and they just don't have anything to release, is the bladder so full that I couldn't feel it... All litter boxes have been emptied, cleaned with kitchen soaped and new litter replacing the old one. There is now 3 litter boxes at different locations including 2 in a different room then where the food is. All boxes are now open sky with no cover and the new one is being used, with golf ball droppings every day or so.
Now, would Small Kitty be running, playing and not complaining when compressing the bladder if it was full ? Should I call pet911 (doesn't exist, it's an image) and run. Or, should I go on with antibiotic I already have theorizing it's an UTI Small Kitty is having ? Going to the vet is a big deal and I'm not sure I'll get any answer. Individual confinement (to see if one cat or another is urinating) is hard at my place, only the small bathroom is closed door. Having my paced used as an open bathroom and not to know if Small Kitty has something wrong in his urinary system freaks me out, I could not sleep last night.
Any opinion on what's going on ?
Thanks in advance to all of you .
Sebastien
*I'm at the office right now, might not reply right away, just between calls.
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(This a long post with full context, jump after the paragraphs for straight to the point fact)
Writing you today regarding something that not to do with diabetes but that really is bringing me some deep concerns.. I found yesterday something anyone would have seen at his place. A few weeks ago I went on for a trip that lasted more than three weeks. A pet sitter was going home twice a day for the full period (to feed shoot and clean litter boxes). I don't remember, will need to verify my sms, but I don't think she warned me about something ''new''. Someone, Small Kitty or Big Brother, started peeing on the table and at some other location in the dinning room / kitchen. On my return I found the place smelling like bathroom that had never been cleaned. Both kitties are going out every night all year long.. Ok, they were mad at me cause they couldn't anymore and did that as a revenge...
Problem is, even when I came back with full release to the outside, petting and full petting were back in action, this happened again... The kitchen table was again the target... Added to the concern was the fackt that the litter boxes, usually filled to capacity every day, were left untouched... Something had to be done fast so I took Big Brother (one of my two cats, the none diabetic one) to the vet for inspection. During the trip to the place he filled the bottom of the bag with a full load of urine making urine analysis impossible once at the vet. As this was not the first time such event (peeing here and there) was happening, the vet concluded it was a comportment issue. His advice were to remove the litter box covers, add a new one away from food (one was already set that way) and give threat when they were used. Added to this she prescribed anti-depressor pills to help with depression or something like that. This fixed the problem, no pee on kitchen table or elsewhere. Gotcha !! Or so I thought. But, even after cleaning with different products, opening all windows 24/7 after a few days the terrible smell was always coming back. While searching for something yesterday, I went in the corner of the living room, behind a reading chair and found the worst thing I had never seen... Everything there, bags, magazine, the base of a lamp was soaked with urine !!! I was so bad that the wooden floor had started to wave. Disgusting, I just freaked out, so badly that I spent part of the entire night yesterday trying to fix this. I don't know if the place was still a open sky litter anymore but the amount of urine must have been big. Everything there was trashed including photography stuff and the lamp that had started to corrode.... Oufff...
Now that I know what happened, lately or some time ago.. Some current facts are coming to my mind.
1 : Since vet visit, with anti-depressant in action, the litter boxes started to be used again
2 : The amount of urine, from Small Kitty or Big Brother, is tyny, slightly bigger than a golf ball.
(Small Kitty used to drops used to be the size of a soft ball.)
(Big Brother, smaller)
3: The strategy of adding litter box and giving threats is in action, both kitties are very happy !
4 : Everyone is going out, and can release while outside, don't know. (Usually, even while going out the littler boxes would be full).
5 : With summer and warm temperature, both kitties are not eating very much and I never saw anybody drink. Fresh cold water replacing the old one everyday.
6 : There has been UTI in the past, and inappropriate urination here and there in the kitchen and dinning room.
One thing, that triggered the 911 post is the following : Since a few days, Small Kitty started meowing for nothing. I thought the threats were filled with addictive and he was asking for more. He got some but was told to shut it up when he resumed.
The big one now, this morning, after heating, I saw small kitty going to the litter box (good boy !) but.. he came out after less than a minute. When I checked the box I found there was nothing, no drop. He received he threats !. 2 min after, same thing, he went in the litter box and came out without any success.
Some would say, just go to the vet and you'll find the answer to your question... Problem is that I cannot skip office day, where I am right now. Also, if the same thing that is happening when I go to the vet, cats release in the bag and there is nothing to analyse... I go there, pay 150$, and go home empty handed with some theoretical reason I already know.
I saw one of the vet testing urine, he was using whatever sticks you call in fresh urine to see if there was chemical reaction to figure out if there was infection. This winter I went to the vet and urine was gathered and found to indicate UTI, antibiotic were administered.
As I have these sticks at home and antibiotics, all I needed was urine. As they all release when going to the vet, I took Small Kitty, put him in the transport bag with a pan at the bottom and went for a ride. I then wen tout as if we were going to the vet expecting there would be some urine dropped.. there wasn't. Not giving up, I went on the internet to find out how to find the bladder. If found that if you use your hand and moved up at the back of the rib case, you will find something, I did not. While doing the massaging there was no complain from Small Kitty so either the bladder was empty or filled to capacity. The case being, he would have had a pain and tried to get away, he didn't.. He was purring and seemed not to bother about anything.
I'm so confused about what's going on.. Is the peeing disaster a thing of the past and they just don't have anything to release, is the bladder so full that I couldn't feel it... All litter boxes have been emptied, cleaned with kitchen soaped and new litter replacing the old one. There is now 3 litter boxes at different locations including 2 in a different room then where the food is. All boxes are now open sky with no cover and the new one is being used, with golf ball droppings every day or so.
Now, would Small Kitty be running, playing and not complaining when compressing the bladder if it was full ? Should I call pet911 (doesn't exist, it's an image) and run. Or, should I go on with antibiotic I already have theorizing it's an UTI Small Kitty is having ? Going to the vet is a big deal and I'm not sure I'll get any answer. Individual confinement (to see if one cat or another is urinating) is hard at my place, only the small bathroom is closed door. Having my paced used as an open bathroom and not to know if Small Kitty has something wrong in his urinary system freaks me out, I could not sleep last night.
Any opinion on what's going on ?
Thanks in advance to all of you .
Sebastien
*I'm at the office right now, might not reply right away, just between calls.
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. But.. he said that diabetic cats are going to the litter box more
