cat related issue - maybe you can help?

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ok here is the problem.

I have a 6 yo cat -male - desexed. About 1 year ago he had a bout of cat cystitis. He was having real difficulty peeing.

Took him to the vet and 3 day later (350 uk pounds ) lighter in the wallet I was told that what he had was a blockage at the end his w***y and that he would probably suffer from this for the rest of his life.

The cat in question is eating fine - nice coat and does not seem to be in any pain however he is now peeing what amounts to blood coloured urine. He is going to the vets tommorow but I just wondered if any one has come across this before - I can't realistically afford to do this every 3-4 months anymore and I wondered if the kindest thing was to put him to self but I keep telling myself that despite all this he is still eating, drinking everything that is put in front of him.

Any thoughts/advice appreciated.

MAndz
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The same thing happened to my friends cat. The vet bill was huge. He had to have special food and drug treatment which was also expensive. Sadly he was run over about 2 months later, so I don't know what the long term prognosis would have been.

I think you have to be realistic about these things. Spending a lot of money on vet bills is fine if you are loaded, but there comes a point when normal people have to stop. If your cat is passing blood then all is not well and he still has a problem.

I love my pets but I do not believe in bankrupting myself over vet bills for lost causes. You are not a bad person.
 
Thanks for that. I have just spent over 1500 pounds on vet care for my daughters eventer and I have only just got a new job - back fulltime in an office as the Equine Flu did my little business in.

I can't help but feel a little guilty that I can't do what I want to do for the cat but at this time it is very difficult to justify spending that amount of money when we are behind on rent etc and things do not look like they will improve for a while due to the credit crunch, fuel prices etc.

Will see what the vet says in the morning.

Once again thanks for the thought - I know I may have to make a hard decision at some point.

MAndz
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This is very common in cats of this age...I have 2 male cats on special diets due to blockages/urine infections , one of my males passed intermittent bouts of bloody urine...he is easier maintained and has to be fed a wet diet, as basically it's just urine infections....the blockage cat has never had a relapse since being fed on the c/d diet...and it's not that expensive...esp for one cat...u can buy it online I think, don't panick at this stage it could be a urine infection as opposed to a blockage, is he on a prescription diet at present? if not they really do fantastic on them as helps stop the crystals from forming, these conditions can be caused by diet or bacteria/infections.
Also a wet diet can help with urine infections to increase the water intake, they do wet c/d diet too.
 
Hills Science Plan do a special food for male cats - it really works well. I look after a cat with wee problems. He was in and out of the vets with this but since he's been on it he's been fine.
 
My sisters cat has this condition and just has special dried food , he's fine most of the time but when he gets a bout of it he just has some tablets
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My cat had problems like this and was much better when fed on the urinary tract friendly biscuits, and given wetter food, too.
 
My cat has had recurrent bouts of this when he gets stressed since he was hit by a car 8 years ago and his urinary tract nerves were damaged apparantly. He had to have a catheter in for 3 weeks as the tube was blocked with crystals (did you know they sew it onto their little willys! Yikes) He was on the vet prescribed pouches for ages but they were a bit expensive and he wasn't keen and lost weight so now I only give him the pouches of senior cat food and mash it up with a little water to make it really moist so he gets plenty of liquid. He's been fine on that for over a year.
 
This problem is a lot more common than I thought.

The last vet I saw did not recommend anything special except to saty that the best thing for him would be the same meat as I feed my dogs - semi lean beef mince. It is a bit co-incidental that over the last week I have discovered that he has been going and having 'dinner' with the neighbours cats and they have ad-lib dry food !!!.

At least it seems that most of the time the cat can manage to live with it which I am really pleased about.

Thanks to all who replied - it helped

Mandz
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We had this issue with another fellow HHO, one of the worst cat feeds for causing stones/crystals is Iams!!!! if your cat has started to show signs at an early age of having bladder/kidney issues then he ought to go straight onto wet food ie meats and plenty of fresh water and keep him on it.
 
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