Off to the vets tommorrow i think...

freekygeeky · #1 (**permalink**) 02-03-2008, 11:30 PM

Well zingi.. grr everything seems to happen to him!!! lol
Its teh gingers i tell ya!
Anyway...this last few days, he has been going to the loo every 10 - 15 mins, (for a wee) he will sit and do one, it'll take AGES, and then nothing, just a tiny tiny drop... coudl he have an infection?

freekygeeky · #2 (**permalink**) 02-03-2008, 11:55 PM

any ideas?

Athravan · #3 (**permalink**) 02-03-2008, 11:58 PM

Yes, it definitely sounds like an infection or a prostate problem. This can be extremely serious in tomcats if untreated so you should definitely get to the vet ASAP

saxon · #4 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 12:00 AM

It could be crystals in his bladder/urethra.

My Mothers persian has this problem. It, apparently, occurrs in male cats at around year or so old.
Keir is now on a special diet from the vet for the rest of his life.
He's had very few problems since he went on this diet so it must be working.

freekygeeky · #5 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 12:04 AM

kk, well i gotta take a leo, so ill take him too, he also has had problems with runny poos, we chnged his diet and stil the same, so i was thinking maybe its his diet, maybe he is allergic to somthing or?

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Originally Posted by saxon

It could be crystals in his bladder/urethra.

My Mothers persian has this problem. It, apparently, occurrs in male cats at around year or so old.
Keir is now on a special diet from the vet for the rest of his life.
He's had very few problems since he went on this diet so it must be working.

freekygeeky · #6 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 12:05 AM

going tommorrow.

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Originally Posted by Athravan

Yes, it definitely sounds like an infection or a prostate problem. This can be extremely serious in tomcats if untreated so you should definitely get to the vet ASAP

freekygeeky · #7 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 12:12 AM

ooo and some added info.
ginger - older cat is on on type of munchies,
Zinigi - on another (kitten)

they both somtimes eat eachothers, but 2 weeks ago, he ran out of gingers, so both red zingis, this week, he ran out of zingis, and just had gingers, and its got worse...
so many its somthign to do with gingers food.
should i take him tommorrow anyway?

feorag · #8 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 12:35 AM

Sounds like it could be cystitis or crystals (Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease).

It would help the vet if you could take a urine sample in with you, then you'll find out quicker.

My Aby had cystitis when he was about 2 year old. In those days he was only fed Whiskas as dried complete cat foods hadn't arrived in Britain. He was on Hills c/d Prescription diet for a couple of years, but by then complete diets were here and I had started to feed them. So I took him off the c/d to see how he was getting on. Tested his urine every 6 months for the next 3 years - no crystals. After that I stopped testing. He lived until 2 months before his 17th birthday and it was his kidneys failing (very common) that actually killed him.

Sorcha, my foundation queen had struvite crystals in her urine and was on a special diet for a couple of years - one to dissolve the crystals and then onto another to stop more forming, but after that she was OK, so it's not the end of the world if you can get the right diagnosis and the right treatment.

freekygeeky · #9 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 12:37 AM

ok thankyou!
no way ill get a urine test! ..
he is mental!!!
err...he has kittern munchies, and kittern wet food at night (half a packet)
and ginger eats adult/seniour cat munchies - which zingi somtimes eats.

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Originally Posted by feorag

Sounds like it could be cystitis or crystals (Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease).

If it's crystals (depending on which one - as there is more than one and the treatment will depend on which they are) then you need to look at the magnesium level of the food you are feeding, in relation to the calorie level.

It would help the vet if you could take a urine sample in with you, then you'll find out quicker.

My Aby had this when he was about 2 year old. In those days he was only fed Whiskas as dried complete cat foods hadn't arrived in Britain. He was on Hills c/d Prescription diet for a couple of years, but by then complete diets were here and I had started to feed them. So I took him off the c/d to see how he was getting on. Tested his urine every 6 months for the next 3 years - no crystals. After that I stopped testing. He lived until 2 months before his 17th birthday and it was his kidneys failing (very common) that actually killed him.

feorag · #10 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by freekygeeky

ok thankyou!
no way ill get a urine test! ..
he is mental!!!
err...he has kittern munchies, and kittern wet food at night (half a packet)
and ginger eats adult/seniour cat munchies - which zingi somtimes eats.

Careful with the kitten munchies, unless is a proper complete dried food like Hills, Pro Plan, Eukanuba etc etc. If it's the kibbley things like Go-Cat that you buy at the supermarked they can sometimes have a high magnesium content and that needs to be watched - another reason why you shouldn't indulge your pussy cats with lots of prawns as treats!

We just keep our cat in the bedroom all night without a litter tray and then follow him/her in the morning to the litter tray, as soon as he/she squats I just stick a piece of tin foil under the bum, or a small shallow plastic dish and you can get a sample dead easy.

Some people put aquarium gravel into a litter tray and isolate the cat, cos then the wee doesn't soak into the gravel and you can pour it into a bottle. Alternatively some use kitchen roll, but I think that's a right palaver cos you've got to squeeze the wee out and it can dry out overnight.

Lovely subject!!!

Let me know what the vet says.

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