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I'm at my wit's end with this. My cat Mickey is overweight and has had surgery to widen his ureter when he had bladder stones removed a couple of years ago. Before that, he would occasionally get a dirty butt, and all I had to say was, "Jump up here so I can clean your butt" and he would comply. Seriously! It was the greatest thing ever--no chasing, no hissing.
Well, these days, the problem is more with urine than poop. He reeks and I'm getting very weary of having him sit on my bed and on my couch and leaving little urine spots all over everything. Sometimes I don't notice until I lay down to go to sleep that he has been sitting on the pillow. It's so gross. And when he climbs up on the bed in the morning, I wake up to the smell of urine.
I started keeping an old bedspread on my bed to keep my duvet clean and I bought washable covers for the pillows I keep on the sofa.
We also don't snuggle like we used to because of this. I have tried shaving the fur off his rear end with the electric clippers (which he let me do), but it didn't help. I mean, it keeps the problem with poop at bay, but the urine problem persists.
If I could wipe him every time he uses the litter box, it might not be so bad, but I work full time and I have to sleep, so that's not a workable solution. I've tried to help him lose weight, but it hasn't been 100% successful. I feed him Wellness canned food twice a day (I split a 5 oz can between him and my other cat), but I have to leave dry food (grain free) down for him between meals. If I don't, when he gets hungry he throws up. It's mostly yellowish bile looking liquid, and I have spots of that all over my rugs (and occasionally I find them on the couch or the bed). The old bedspread helps with that too.
I just needed to vent. I don't expect anyone to suggest anything that I haven't already thought of, read about or tried, but just having others who know what I'm going through helps a little. I love my cat, but honestly, I'm looking forward to the day I don't have to smell cat urine in my house. Sometimes I'm so overwhelmed by it, all I can do is cry. I wish I hadn't let the vet talk me into doing that procedure. He hasn't had a recurrence of bladder stones since, but I think that's more to do with what he's eating than the widened ureter.
If you've read this far, thanks.
Well, these days, the problem is more with urine than poop. He reeks and I'm getting very weary of having him sit on my bed and on my couch and leaving little urine spots all over everything. Sometimes I don't notice until I lay down to go to sleep that he has been sitting on the pillow. It's so gross. And when he climbs up on the bed in the morning, I wake up to the smell of urine.
I started keeping an old bedspread on my bed to keep my duvet clean and I bought washable covers for the pillows I keep on the sofa.
We also don't snuggle like we used to because of this. I have tried shaving the fur off his rear end with the electric clippers (which he let me do), but it didn't help. I mean, it keeps the problem with poop at bay, but the urine problem persists.
If I could wipe him every time he uses the litter box, it might not be so bad, but I work full time and I have to sleep, so that's not a workable solution. I've tried to help him lose weight, but it hasn't been 100% successful. I feed him Wellness canned food twice a day (I split a 5 oz can between him and my other cat), but I have to leave dry food (grain free) down for him between meals. If I don't, when he gets hungry he throws up. It's mostly yellowish bile looking liquid, and I have spots of that all over my rugs (and occasionally I find them on the couch or the bed). The old bedspread helps with that too.
I just needed to vent. I don't expect anyone to suggest anything that I haven't already thought of, read about or tried, but just having others who know what I'm going through helps a little. I love my cat, but honestly, I'm looking forward to the day I don't have to smell cat urine in my house. Sometimes I'm so overwhelmed by it, all I can do is cry. I wish I hadn't let the vet talk me into doing that procedure. He hasn't had a recurrence of bladder stones since, but I think that's more to do with what he's eating than the widened ureter.
If you've read this far, thanks.
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