Quote Originally Posted by columbine
My cat was on Urinary S/O and got them anyway. His previous humans were going to have him killed (take him to a shelter, where cats with health problems pine away their numbered days while healthy kittens get homes) too, because they didn't want to spend any more money on the vet. But I adopted him and took him to my local vet, and she suggested a different anti-crystal food (Hill's c/d, specifically for struvite crystals) and it cleared the problem right up. No problem getting him to eat it - he loves it.

Not sure why I'm even writing this - if you'd kill your cat to impress a girl, I don't know what I can say to you that will make a difference. But if you absolutely refuse to get him re-tested, please do try Clomicalm, or maybe Feliway. Both have good reputations for helping with behavioral (non-germ, non-crystal) urinary problems. But they're not free. Perhaps Sox will just have to be sacrificed for your convenience. But any girl who'd date you after you killed your cat to win her affections won't be worth dating.

Columbine, who the hell do you think you are to tell me that I'd kill my cat for a girl? I'm about sick of my house smelling like cat piss, and when I invite her family over, what do I say? Here's my cat, he pisses everywhere, and I've tried everything I can think of to make it better, but that smell is oh so great? Do I say, it's only a matter of time before EVERY SURFACE in my home is replaced? I've ripped up carpet, replaced with different surfaces, I've tried 2, and 3 litter boxes. I've tried different litters. Nothing is seeming to work. Simply put, I'm running out of money. I can't keep going to the vet and spending my last dollars on some kitty prozac or whatever else. The vet bills keep adding up, and quite frankly, I'm a tradesman, not a wealthy man.

First off, I've spent several thousands of dollars keeping this cat alive. Secondly, I've given him a good home, and taken him from an abusive one. Third, I offered him up here to LOVING pet owners, and NOT a shelter.

There are no crystals in the urine. He has had zero crystals since I've had the P/U surgery. I was told, when a cat sprays, it's on like baseboards, and walls. When they are just peeing on carpet, towels, pants, bedding, it's either A;, to show something wrong, or B; to show that he's being a little huffy puffy.

He's been checked over, and he's fine. Hell, he uses the box, and then pees somewhere else.

Columbine, if you need to make me out to be a bad guy, that's fine. First off, think of all I've done for this little guy, BEFORE you even consider that I'm a bastard.

I was off of work last year for 4 months, no income. Then he got the crystals. After a week in one vet, a week at another, then a PU surgery, and 3 months of hell to get him better, I had to borrow against my home. I had my own medical bills piliing up from being off of work, and was definitely struggling to make ends meet. I also took him from an abusive situation when he was a baby.

Yeah Columbine, I really sound like a guy who would kill his cat for a girl. Maybe I'm a guy who knows when he can admit defeat, and I don't want to be upset about cat odor in my home when I have company. Maybe you should have thought of that before you went right to the extreme.