Toby, my almost 4yr. old male, has been having urinary tract 'issues' for almost 2 months now.
I posted when it first started (middle of July), and since then he's been put on the Royal Canin Waltham's Control formula (wet & dry). The first time he went to the vet (this was back in July), he was put on Clavamox, Cosequin, and small doses of valium (he had no urine to test, so the vet was just going off of that he probably did have a UTI based on his symptoms).
I ended up taking him to a different vet, for a second opinion, and she kept him so she could take a sample. When the results came back, he did have some blood in his urine, a few small crystals, and his pH level was 7.5. That's when she decided to put him on the Royal Canin food, and she also gave him Terazosin (.5mg, 1 pill 2x a day for 10 days).
All was fine til about 3-4 days after finishing the Terazosin. He started going in and out of the litterbox again, & only producing small amounts of urine, so I took him back. They had to keep him again (darn cat never has any pee in him at the vet!), and this time his pH was 6.5 (which we decided was probably because he does ocassionally get into my other cat, Sneaks food), and no crystals/blood.
So she gave me some more Terazosin (this was on 8/10), which I gave him for 5 days, and he's been fine since then.
So I've been thinking about getting him a different food once this bag on the perscription stuff is finished (I have probably at least a month left, so I'm just thinking ahead). The vet said when she put him on it that she'd recommend keeping him on it til he was over all of this, which I think he is. So now I'm trying to find a UT friendly non-perscription food.
Before all of this started, he was eating Chicken Soup & Eagle Pack dry in the am, and Eagle Pack wet at night.
So, any suggestions for UT friendly foods? Also, what about any supplements that could help keep any issues from popping up again?
Btw, here's the boy in question
I posted when it first started (middle of July), and since then he's been put on the Royal Canin Waltham's Control formula (wet & dry). The first time he went to the vet (this was back in July), he was put on Clavamox, Cosequin, and small doses of valium (he had no urine to test, so the vet was just going off of that he probably did have a UTI based on his symptoms).
I ended up taking him to a different vet, for a second opinion, and she kept him so she could take a sample. When the results came back, he did have some blood in his urine, a few small crystals, and his pH level was 7.5. That's when she decided to put him on the Royal Canin food, and she also gave him Terazosin (.5mg, 1 pill 2x a day for 10 days).
All was fine til about 3-4 days after finishing the Terazosin. He started going in and out of the litterbox again, & only producing small amounts of urine, so I took him back. They had to keep him again (darn cat never has any pee in him at the vet!), and this time his pH was 6.5 (which we decided was probably because he does ocassionally get into my other cat, Sneaks food), and no crystals/blood.
So she gave me some more Terazosin (this was on 8/10), which I gave him for 5 days, and he's been fine since then.
So I've been thinking about getting him a different food once this bag on the perscription stuff is finished (I have probably at least a month left, so I'm just thinking ahead). The vet said when she put him on it that she'd recommend keeping him on it til he was over all of this, which I think he is. So now I'm trying to find a UT friendly non-perscription food.
Before all of this started, he was eating Chicken Soup & Eagle Pack dry in the am, and Eagle Pack wet at night.
So, any suggestions for UT friendly foods? Also, what about any supplements that could help keep any issues from popping up again?
Btw, here's the boy in question