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Bear with me as I share the story that gets to my problem.
A few weeks ago, a male stray showed up on my property. I have already had several cats TNR'd and I knew right away that was what I should do with this guy. When I picked him up from the clinic, they informed me that they noticed blood in his urine. I knew I had to keep a watchful eye on him after release (they had given him penicillin at the clinic). As soon as I opened the trap to let him out, he acted quite strange and was picking fight with my other ferals. I decided to see if there was anyone else that could take him. Luckily, I have a friend that is a sucker for short orange hair kitties and her and her family were ready to adopt a pet, their first one.
I informed her of the bloody urine. I had some amoxicillin left over from a previous cat and decided to have her give it to him in the same dosage for a week. The first night he was great. Extremely loving, used the litter box with no issues. The third morning my friend awoke to a huge bloody mess on her floor. I immediately took him to the vet. They gave him an urinalysis, Clavamox, a steroid, and pain meds. A call the next day assured us it was only a severe UTI and he should heal fine.
Here is the problem, he stopped using the litter box. He is pooping all over her basement (she doesn't want to let him upstairs until this is under control) and has also started peeing outside of the box as well. He will use the box sometimes but not always. I assume he is attributing the litter box with pain. How do we get him back to using it?
More litter boxes? Different litter?
I have never had this issue. The strays I have adopted adapted to using the box with no issues but they also didn't have an extremely painful UTI either. I am hoping he will go back to using it. Any advice or similar stories with happy results?
A few weeks ago, a male stray showed up on my property. I have already had several cats TNR'd and I knew right away that was what I should do with this guy. When I picked him up from the clinic, they informed me that they noticed blood in his urine. I knew I had to keep a watchful eye on him after release (they had given him penicillin at the clinic). As soon as I opened the trap to let him out, he acted quite strange and was picking fight with my other ferals. I decided to see if there was anyone else that could take him. Luckily, I have a friend that is a sucker for short orange hair kitties and her and her family were ready to adopt a pet, their first one.
I informed her of the bloody urine. I had some amoxicillin left over from a previous cat and decided to have her give it to him in the same dosage for a week. The first night he was great. Extremely loving, used the litter box with no issues. The third morning my friend awoke to a huge bloody mess on her floor. I immediately took him to the vet. They gave him an urinalysis, Clavamox, a steroid, and pain meds. A call the next day assured us it was only a severe UTI and he should heal fine.
Here is the problem, he stopped using the litter box. He is pooping all over her basement (she doesn't want to let him upstairs until this is under control) and has also started peeing outside of the box as well. He will use the box sometimes but not always. I assume he is attributing the litter box with pain. How do we get him back to using it?
More litter boxes? Different litter?
I have never had this issue. The strays I have adopted adapted to using the box with no issues but they also didn't have an extremely painful UTI either. I am hoping he will go back to using it. Any advice or similar stories with happy results?