Thank you all for your kind words and advice.

I have decided to keep Ash on the wet food with some biscuits for his teeth,ideally special food would be great i guess, but i have to pay for his pills every month, the vet advised me that the pills were a better option for him., i simply cannot afford to do both,it is a struggle even for the pills, but i have decided there are some things in life i can do without and that is what i am going to do,no big hardship, i can give up something i love for my cat who i love even more.

As for Sub Q's i am absolutely terrified of the thought of having to do that, i don't know that i can, the vet never mentioned it to me, i think i will take him to the vets if absolutely necessary, i am hoping the pills will help him alot, they are for his heart condition and renal failure.

We still need to get a urine sample done, to check the values again as when they were originally done he had been hydrated, so that can make a difference, hoping they come back better than the original.

I am just a bit gutted, even though Ash is turning 13 this year, he is still not that old, of course he could be older or younger as it is guess work, we adopted him as a stray when he was around five years old , the vet guessed his age by his teeth i think, if i remember rightly, so one never knows for sure how old my boy is, but he certainly is not a young cat that's for sure.