I hope someone here has some infor on this!! Charlie has been struggling with urinary crystals for some time now. I took him to the vet about a month ago and had him catherterized. He did ok for awhile, but my boyfriend had to take him on Monday again. We had to take him to a more expensive vet because our regular vet was not open. This vet wanted to catherterize him and keep him for three days for obsevation. It was going to cost $580. We decided to have the catherter done and just take him home with us. We also got some prescription food, Science Diet stuff. It still cost $250. He is now having some bleeding from his genitals, but he seems to be passing urine in the litterbox. He also licks that area all the time. We are giving him distilled water, but he won't eat the food we got from the vet. We have tried pouring tuna juice on it, but he just licks the juice off. I am afraid he will need to go back to the vet, and we just can't afford these vet bills all the time. He is only 18months old, and slightly overweight. I was wondering if anyone knew anything that could help this. I will do anything for him, including taking him back to the vet and paying those monstrous bills, but I would love an alternative to that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Amy
Amy