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Hi,
I am devastated but I'll try be clear.
My 4-year-old, always healthy, quirky and adorable, sterilized, wet food eating and hunting indoor-outdoor farm cat 'Essi' can't pee. Nobody knows why.
I noticed something was wrong on SAT. Took her to vet first thing on SUN morning. Vet emptied her by then full bladder. Vet thought she had a bladder infection, because there was nothing at all preventing her from peeing! There was no blockage!
Well, it's now Monday evening. She is on antibiotics and painkillers. She is back to her normal, playful self, except she can't urinate. She has eaten and drunk very little, but still. She has tried to go today, but nothing came out.
Vet calls. Says the blood work showed that she does not have an infection at all!
Why could she not pee at the start? No idea. Why can't she pee now? No idea. 'But it's possible the expanded bladder broke a muscle that controls the bladder, so better put her down'.
Incredible.
In other words, nobody really knows what's wrong. If she can't pee ever again, of course she needs to be put down. I'd never keep her in pain.
But what if there's a way to find out what's wrong and cure her? What if the muscle is fine, and the reason she cannot urinate hasn't changed from the start?
If someone has any idea, please, help. Time is running out... For now she seems just fine, but she is not urinating.... I've been feeling her bladder all day and I don't think it's expanded like on Saturday. Anyway she was behaving in a different way then - not moving at all, sulking, hiding...
Thanks
sophie
I am devastated but I'll try be clear.
My 4-year-old, always healthy, quirky and adorable, sterilized, wet food eating and hunting indoor-outdoor farm cat 'Essi' can't pee. Nobody knows why.
I noticed something was wrong on SAT. Took her to vet first thing on SUN morning. Vet emptied her by then full bladder. Vet thought she had a bladder infection, because there was nothing at all preventing her from peeing! There was no blockage!
Well, it's now Monday evening. She is on antibiotics and painkillers. She is back to her normal, playful self, except she can't urinate. She has eaten and drunk very little, but still. She has tried to go today, but nothing came out.
Vet calls. Says the blood work showed that she does not have an infection at all!
Why could she not pee at the start? No idea. Why can't she pee now? No idea. 'But it's possible the expanded bladder broke a muscle that controls the bladder, so better put her down'.
Incredible.
In other words, nobody really knows what's wrong. If she can't pee ever again, of course she needs to be put down. I'd never keep her in pain.
But what if there's a way to find out what's wrong and cure her? What if the muscle is fine, and the reason she cannot urinate hasn't changed from the start?
If someone has any idea, please, help. Time is running out... For now she seems just fine, but she is not urinating.... I've been feeling her bladder all day and I don't think it's expanded like on Saturday. Anyway she was behaving in a different way then - not moving at all, sulking, hiding...
Thanks
sophie