Stray with urinary infection/blockage

Good Morning from Greece.

I live on an island and  I care for many strays, right now I have in my basement one semi-wild tom (castrated since 2 yrs ago) with a broken jaw, he's healing well from that. BUT what I've noticed is that he is crying in his litter box and hardly passing pee. He is peeing cause I see it in the litter, but not properly. I suspect an infection, and hopefully is not a blockage.

My problem, beside the economic one of buying prescription food for him (20 euro for a 2 kilo bag)  is to pill him.

Normally I would need to give him baytril for 15-20 days.... for his broken jaw I've been trying to pill him and ended up scratched and stressing him more, so I stopped as he would go nuts and vomit all his pills around. 

I can try putting the pill in some kind of gel/paste and give it to him like that, as Baytril is a much smaller pill than the one for the broken jaw.

What about the Methygel ? I've heard that it acidifies the urine and can help if is a blockage.

Every bit of help/advise will be highly appreciated.

Ronit

No suggestions so far.....

So I took the cat again to vet an we put him a catethizer, his pee was going out and vet said that he was not blocked. he decided to treat as an infection, i must give him antibiotics for some days

any ideas or suggestions will be highly appreciated

If you think it is stones, it is important to know which sorts stones before you try a medicine or food-diete.  The one stone, the most common, is helped by acidish food or medicines.  But the other is the other way - it grows from acidish.

Had the vet any suggestion here which it could be here?   I understand he though it was infection as the main course.

OH I am so sorry to hear this. AND BLESS YOU for caring for these kitties. You are just so kind :heart3: Sorry it took a bit for a response. I am glad to hear you were able to get this cat to a vet. OMG the poor thing a broken jaw and all on top of this UTI. I really hope that your vet is kind to you with charges. You are caring for all of these cat's and need a break financially. It is always wonderful to find a vet willing to help you pro-bono, so to speak :cross: I wonder did the vet run a culture on the urine?? This would have been helpful in determining if there are crystal's or stone's and then a diet can be determined. AWWW you are doing everything you possibly can. IF a cat does block, it is life threatening and an extremely painful death if they don't get help immediately. I would watch this cat very closely. There is only so much you can do financially too, I imagine. Such a hard life for these cat's.....

Thank you so much for caring.  I note that you list your location as Greek islands.

Male cats + fish = bad news.  So to the extent possible, avoid anything with fish.

I will be in Mykonos and Santorini in early October, and hope to do some volunteering with The Santorini Animal Welfare Association   (TNR).  I assume you're familiar with that organization; maybe a similar organization can help you.