Let me preface this with saying Murphy is currently at the vets. I just want to talk to people who have had this problem and see what outcomes/treatments were.
About 9am Murph started pacing around the house being vocal, not out of the blue for him, he's a bit of a gobby cat, normally it's when Winston has gone in to hiding and Murph can't find him. Well it continued for longer then normal. Then he started visiting his litter box every 3 to 5 minutes, furiously digging, squatting, then coming out, going back in, digging, squatting, coming out. That is odd for him.
He squats when he pees, but his pee squat is different to his poop one. At first I thought he couldn't poop, so I sat by the box and watched him for a few rounds and he was doing his pee squat. He'd dig, perch for like a minute .. nothing would come out, turn around, sniff, look utterly disgusted, get out, wander around the house being vocal, plonk down do a bunch of licking and repeat.
Such odd behaviour for him, I gather some kind of infection and sods law my husband just went OOT for the week so I throw some clothes on the kids and run up the vets. Vet feels his bladder says it's 3/4 full and soft, SO not blocked at the moment, but that confirms my thought that he's not peeing because all that squatting he's doing, his bladder should not be 3/4s full you know?
Vet suspects a bladder infection, and its painful to pee and that's why nothings coming out. He's kept him so he can put him on no absorbent litter to get a sample and to give him something to relax him back there? He's been in since 1130a. I just called (4p) and he's still not pee'd so they are keeping him over night. He also wants to check his pee for crystals? He said that can block things up?
Of course my 3 year old little girl has a total break down as we leave the vets with out her beloved Murphy, because they are true best friends (He's 6 in April) they are always hanging out, she just had surgery on Friday and he laid with her all day while she was feeling crappy, bless her. She understands he has a 'boo boo' but don't get why he can't come home with us. "I want Murphy" she keeps telling me.
So experience with this? Outcomes? He has no previous history of these.
He currently eats Blue Buffalo indoor cat food. He is an indoor only cat. He's a very 'pukey' cat in that I have spend a long time finding a food that don't upset his belly, he can't have any wet food, all of it makes him vomit with in minutes of eating it. Of course he is a BIG time human food thief and is vomiting with in 5 minutes of stealing it. This is the only food that don't make him puke! I hoping they don't ask me to change his food as I was reading that pee infections sometimes require this. Urgh.
Thanks in advance!
About 9am Murph started pacing around the house being vocal, not out of the blue for him, he's a bit of a gobby cat, normally it's when Winston has gone in to hiding and Murph can't find him. Well it continued for longer then normal. Then he started visiting his litter box every 3 to 5 minutes, furiously digging, squatting, then coming out, going back in, digging, squatting, coming out. That is odd for him.
He squats when he pees, but his pee squat is different to his poop one. At first I thought he couldn't poop, so I sat by the box and watched him for a few rounds and he was doing his pee squat. He'd dig, perch for like a minute .. nothing would come out, turn around, sniff, look utterly disgusted, get out, wander around the house being vocal, plonk down do a bunch of licking and repeat.
Such odd behaviour for him, I gather some kind of infection and sods law my husband just went OOT for the week so I throw some clothes on the kids and run up the vets. Vet feels his bladder says it's 3/4 full and soft, SO not blocked at the moment, but that confirms my thought that he's not peeing because all that squatting he's doing, his bladder should not be 3/4s full you know?
Vet suspects a bladder infection, and its painful to pee and that's why nothings coming out. He's kept him so he can put him on no absorbent litter to get a sample and to give him something to relax him back there? He's been in since 1130a. I just called (4p) and he's still not pee'd so they are keeping him over night. He also wants to check his pee for crystals? He said that can block things up?
Of course my 3 year old little girl has a total break down as we leave the vets with out her beloved Murphy, because they are true best friends (He's 6 in April) they are always hanging out, she just had surgery on Friday and he laid with her all day while she was feeling crappy, bless her. She understands he has a 'boo boo' but don't get why he can't come home with us. "I want Murphy" she keeps telling me.
So experience with this? Outcomes? He has no previous history of these.
He currently eats Blue Buffalo indoor cat food. He is an indoor only cat. He's a very 'pukey' cat in that I have spend a long time finding a food that don't upset his belly, he can't have any wet food, all of it makes him vomit with in minutes of eating it. Of course he is a BIG time human food thief and is vomiting with in 5 minutes of stealing it. This is the only food that don't make him puke! I hoping they don't ask me to change his food as I was reading that pee infections sometimes require this. Urgh.
Thanks in advance!