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We are very frustrated and looking for guidance.
Our 4 year old female tabby, Bella, is/was in great health until this recent occurrence. She is a very fit and active cat, only weighing 9lbs.
About 3 weeks ago we noticed that she was dribbling pee all around the edges of every room in the house. She also started having a vomiting spat so we took her to the vet on an emergency after hours visit as we were concerned. Our vet didn't offer today any tests, just felt the cat, and told us she had a UTI and sent us out the door with a 14 day prescription of antibiotics and a $200 bill. We kept the cat in the bathroom while we gave her all of her meds. At the end of her meds she wasn't any better.
We felt like we got ripped off by our vet so we then took her somewhere different. They did a urinalisys and told us she had crystals in her pee and that we needed to give her more antibiotics and put her on a special prescription urinary diet. We also gave her about 5ml of water with a syringe twice a day. She got a lot better by the end of this week and we let her out of the bathroom. She did good and was peeing mostly normal and much less frequently in her box and was not going on the carpet.
We continued to give her the prescription food but she also had access to her dry food which she started eating again too. We stopped giving her water with the syringe as well since we thought she was on the mend and almost completely healed.
Today out of nowhere (2 days later) she started peeing all over the house again very frequently and vomiting again. This time we could see blood in one of her pee spots.
Do you think the combination of her eating her dry food plus us not giving her the water caused a relapse? We are going to try a strict diet and the water feedings again to see if it helps.
We don't know what else to do... We have now sunk $400 into this problem and we don't have any rectification yet. We can't afford to take her back in. Does anyone else have any ideas what this could be and things we can try yo help make her better???
Thanks in advance!!!
Our 4 year old female tabby, Bella, is/was in great health until this recent occurrence. She is a very fit and active cat, only weighing 9lbs.
About 3 weeks ago we noticed that she was dribbling pee all around the edges of every room in the house. She also started having a vomiting spat so we took her to the vet on an emergency after hours visit as we were concerned. Our vet didn't offer today any tests, just felt the cat, and told us she had a UTI and sent us out the door with a 14 day prescription of antibiotics and a $200 bill. We kept the cat in the bathroom while we gave her all of her meds. At the end of her meds she wasn't any better.
We felt like we got ripped off by our vet so we then took her somewhere different. They did a urinalisys and told us she had crystals in her pee and that we needed to give her more antibiotics and put her on a special prescription urinary diet. We also gave her about 5ml of water with a syringe twice a day. She got a lot better by the end of this week and we let her out of the bathroom. She did good and was peeing mostly normal and much less frequently in her box and was not going on the carpet.
We continued to give her the prescription food but she also had access to her dry food which she started eating again too. We stopped giving her water with the syringe as well since we thought she was on the mend and almost completely healed.
Today out of nowhere (2 days later) she started peeing all over the house again very frequently and vomiting again. This time we could see blood in one of her pee spots.
Do you think the combination of her eating her dry food plus us not giving her the water caused a relapse? We are going to try a strict diet and the water feedings again to see if it helps.
We don't know what else to do... We have now sunk $400 into this problem and we don't have any rectification yet. We can't afford to take her back in. Does anyone else have any ideas what this could be and things we can try yo help make her better???
Thanks in advance!!!