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If anyone cares, Neko appears to be all better. After my last post her pee clumps were never as small as they had been. Now they are fairly large clumps and she's peeing only a couple times in a 12-hour period.

So I pretty much completely gave up on her eating the wet food, and was just giving her the dry food and putting out a bit of wet food at night just because. Well, the night before last I noticed it was gone in the morning. I tried putting some more out the next day and it was gone by evening...

I haven't fed her dry today nor yesterday... I leave the wet out a few hours. I've been throwing it away then... I only put out a small amount of the can and then refrigerate it... then microwave a bit the next portion I put out. I put it in a small bowl or plate, usually squashing it up with a...

Well, I'm becoming seriously frustrated over this wet food thing. She'll look like she's decided she likes it (and I'm like "yes!"), will lick fairly enthusiastically for about 30 seconds, then sit up and lick her lips, then wander away. ("argh!") She almost always never touches it again having...

My biggest such scare, not so long ago, was me one night running fast down the stairs in very dim lighting, taking two steps at a time (which I always do). That's 160 pounds hitting each step pretty hard. At the time my cat never chilled on the steps. So it came as a wrenching surprise when I...

Well, I would have used the shower nozzle setting, but yeah I knew it wasn't a good idea, lol. (she'd never let me clean her any other way) I think the self cleaning process is still going on, lol. (on my dresser right now--lays for a while, then licks, lays then licks...) I dunno that...

Well, my visit to the vet was absolutely horrible. The EASIEST thing was getting her into the crate, lol. This time I had the crate set up sideways in the bathroom with its lid leaning open on one of the drawers... She likes the upstairs bathroom a bit because she likes it when the faucet...

Great post and great info. Thanks a lot def kitty. Didn't consider raw meat... how did you determine the correct diet?

My original point was that things could not be summed up as simply as "What would you do if you were peeing blood yourself?" You just looked at my illustration and ran with it in order to make your own point. That's what I mean about taking things out of context. I am not denying that my cat...

Way to take things out of context... Anyways, UTI means INFECTION which is apparently quite rare in an otherwise healthy cat; it's not a catch-all term like FLUTD. (she hasn't been missing the litter box for days btw, as I said) I do appreciate the encouragement, Feralvr especially for...

I'd be glad I have health insurance and can get myself checked out after a phone call and a five minute drive. Under different circumstances... say in order to be checked out my only friend in the world had to betray me, run me down and lock me into an unmarked van, then transport me through...

Well I made an appt with the vet for her tomorrow. I am dreading it. Dreading the simple act of getting her into the carrier as much as anything...

Okay, so I guess I'll post an update... I tried getting her on wet food and it was kind of a disaster... She'll eat it when she feels like it, but not enough. Tried 3 or 4 brands and 10 or 12 cans, from the cheap store brand stuff to fairly quality stuff. She wasn't enthusiastic about any of...

Well, I emailed my local animal hospital almost word for word the two posts I've made in this thread. The reply to my first post was to bring her in (of course); the reply to my second post was "okay, let me know how she does and if there's anything we can do."

I think that, after all, I'm going to sit on this a little while; I don't see any alarming behavior in my cat. I'm going to introduce her to wet food and I've bought a water fountain to entice her into drinking more water (up until now she's only had the one water bowl in a rather traffic-heavy...