Quote Originally Posted by Catty1 View Post
I don't think UTIs and stones in a younger kitty are USUALLY causes for euthanasia. If you choose the food and kitty treats wisely, and make sure he gets lots of fluids (adding warm water to mush up some wet food a bit helps), then handsome Irwin should be with you for many years to some.

Shortly after I got my tabby Oscar a few years ago, he developed a nasty cystitis. There weren't many crystals - and those that were there were gone in a week with a change in diet. However, there was blood in his urine up to a month later.

In addition to changing his food, my vet said I could use the powder from a cranberry capsule. About 50 mg - or 1/5 of a capsule, as I eyeballed it - went into a small amount of totally plain unflavoured low fat yogurt. Oscar loved that stuff, and got the cranberry in with it. It was to be used for about a month. (You can ask your vet about this).

Hugs to you and to Irwin, and I am sure you will be able to maintain his new health for a very long time.

Its not stones and UTI's unfortunately, its Feline Lower Urinary Tract disease, and what its done to his bladder. The bladder wall is 5 to 7 times thicker then it should be, which makes Irwin feel like he needs to urinate all day, he empties his bladder and then goes back to the litter another 7 times.

He's spent the majority of the day in the cat litter and hes already on pain meds.

I wish it was stones and UTI's. Infections can be treated and stones can be removed. Unfortunately, this sucks.


He's been on prescription diets since he was 2, it hasn't helped.

If this is gonna be his life, I dont know what to do, its not right to let him live his life in a cat litter box.