Cat with UTI and Litter Training

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Thanks. It's still good advice and supportive.
 
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Audrey was spayed and microchipped 2 days ago and besides an early hiccup where she kept biting at the stitches as soon as we got home (requiring me to rush her back before closing to get the right size collar!), she is doing very well. Took the collar off her today and she's mostly left the stitches alone, but I'll put it back on tonight. I hope that's the only surgical procedure she'll have to endure! Anyway, at least all seems well again, so far!!
 
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Audrey got her stitches out today and is still doing really well!! I love her so much. She gets really bored and lonely even with human company and play, at times, and is so happy when she's outside. I've kept her inside for the last 13 days and she's often at the windows. Anyway, I'm writing to ask your opinion on getting another kitten, so she'll have someone to play with like only another kitten can! Please let me know your thoughts if you don't mind. Hope you and yours are well.
 

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If you can handle two crazy kittens, go for it! It makes them more well-balanced and does usually help cut out some of that energy. :)
 
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Thanks Minka, sounds like good advice and makes sense. Thank you for your prayers too, I think they helped :) I hope you and your cat/s are well :)
 
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That's good to hear :)
Audrey peed on my mattress last night, so I just hope it's because I didn't put down two litter trays, as I was so tired I fell asleep. She's just coming off the last round of antibiotics....so this will be a telling time. I think she's fine, so just hope I'm correct, otherwise will be a very expensive and upsetting ordeal. Anyway, all should be well if I keep her indoors.
 

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Also keep in mind that when dealing with uti's they can associate the box with pain, so they need time to figure out that going there will not cause them pain anymore.
You may have to keep her in a bathroom with the litterbox for a couple days if she pees in the wrong spot again. *nods*
 
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Thanks Minka, yes I think it's hard to know if it's pain or aversion to the box, but since her last round of antibiotics she's been using it fine. Oh, yeah, don't know about putting her in the bathroom!! If it gets really bad I might. The vets all said it's extremely rare (less than 2%) for a cat her age to get UTIs esp repeatedly. Time will tell. Thanks for your advice, it's always appreciated even if I don't always act on it ;)
 

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Yea, yea, I'm not saying she has pain or a uti anymore, just that she might remember it caused her pain, so she has to rebuild good associations. :nod:
 
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I know :) I've got a severe case of cuteness overload. They're actually lying in the corner of the kitchen snuggled up right now....too cute!
 
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Hi Minka, I bought another kitten, so the saga begins again! Audrey's having a hard time adjusting but my older girl is managing ok for now. I'm completely satiated for cats now, that's it for the next 15+ years.

Audrey's personality and behaviour is much more settled and happier now :)

Hope all's well with you and your dear boy :)
 
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Early days but I think so, thanks :) They just started gentle play together today, but Audrey is a bit put out and peed off still! It's so hot where I live in Australia atm, our second almost 2 wk heatwave.....I hope my cats survive it! I only have portable aircon :(!
 
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I hope you could solve the "peeing" problem.

So hard it is for you, but my experience was to leave a cut in a room with

a kitty litter box and food and a cozy place to sleep.

From time to time I just went in and took him/her and put them in the litter box.

After three days they were fine and I let them out to the next room. A few days

later to the next room or open house. 

Also I noticed that "some brand" of kitty litter is not accepted from my cats neither.

(was very dusty)

Good luck!
 
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Thank you :) She will always use the litter tray now so long as there's always a perfectly unused tray! Still using dirt from outside tho or she won't use it! I'm sick of digging dirt every morning and night!!
 
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