Ashley's Vet Appt is Tonight - Back from vets - still spraying

[columbine]

Would you consider getting a cat drinking fountain? Sometimes cats get crystals when they don't drink enough water, and many cats prefer to drink running water. It's good to get a rubber or plastic mat to put under the fountain, as many cats enjoy playing in running water as well!

Another thing you can do is serve them canned food with extra water mixed in. Smudge also gets a supplement called Cosequin mixed into his "salmon mousse" that strengthens the lining of the bladder, and is helpful no matter what kind of crystals a cat is contending with.

Love, Columbine

[Anikaca77]

Hi Columbine-

Actually the very weird thing is that Ashley drinks a lot of water. I see her a lot drinking from the water bowls and she begs for water out of the faucet and we give it to her when the bathroom is free.

The vet said about giving her can food because of the water and I told the vet that she is always drinking, she's been like this though for a while and I think it's just something she likes to do but we had her blood tested 6 months ago back in Dec. 08 and it was fine and showed nothing just like her urine so I'm not sure what's going on now.

I really hope it's not stress causing this problem. I'm worried that maybe she's upset with us for bringing in more cats into our house and she acting out this way. I'm not sure.

When Ashley was put on the valium earlier this year she was hanging out with us in the living room which normally she didn't do and she just seemed happier and recently she has been hiding under the bed sometimes now and peeing in the kitchen and bathroom and I just feel so bad for her. I really hope that this isn't from stress and that we will be able to make her feel better again.

Just needed to vent a bit I guess.

Melissa

Would you consider getting a cat drinking fountain? Sometimes cats get crystals when they don't drink enough water, and many cats prefer to drink running water. It's good to get a rubber or plastic mat to put under the fountain, as many cats enjoy playing in running water as well!

Another thing you can do is serve them canned food with extra water mixed in. Smudge also gets a supplement called Cosequin mixed into his "salmon mousse" that strengthens the lining of the bladder, and is helpful no matter what kind of crystals a cat is contending with.

Love, Columbine

[columbine]

Wow. That's a brainbuster, all right. Usually I think of "pain peeing" from crystals as a totally different situation from "stress peeing," and I've never heard of a cat having both kinds of crystals at once. That's truly weird - it makes me wonder whether there might have been two different cats' pee in the sample.

At least it sounds like the valium helped her, so maybe she's able to pee but holding it out of nervousness? Do the other cats attack or watch her in the litterbox?

Anyway, another thing that helps with stress is Feliway, a sort of "kitty incense" that mimics their "this is a safe place" facial scent hormone. And since there are indeed crystals involved, it might be worth asking the vet whether Cosequin (a supplement to strengthen the lining of the bladder/urethra) might help.

Please keep us posted!

Love, Columbine

[phesina]

Prayers and love for Ashley.

And a candle: http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/...ng&cid=9086141

[Medusa]

Valium should've helped w/the inappropriate spraying. If you didn't wean her off it but just stopped the medication, that's probably why she's hiding under the bed. I sure hope she feels better soon, poor girl.

[Anikaca77]

Hi Columbine-

I've never heard of a cat having both crystals, I could be incorrect maybe but I'm pretty sure that's what the vet told me. I sorta feel maybe I should try to get another pee sample from her just to have one re-tested just to make sure and have them send it away to lab just to make sure our vet isn't missing anything.

We had Ashley confined in the bathroom so no other cats were able to pee in the same spot that Ashley did and I took her sample as soon as I saw it in the bathroom.

She held herself for about 6 hours, I put her in the bathroom at 1 p.m. on Sunday and she finally peed right before 7 p.m. and I went into get the sample and left her out of the bathroom. So I wonder if she has the crystals when she's holding herself this long and not any other time.

The valium does help her occassionaly but she still is going outside the box and I don't know if this is from the crystals or not. I just wonder if she has been having crystals and they didn't catch it this earlier this year or not.

I don't think she is holding herself either because she does use the litter box. I know sometimes our 3 boys are just full of agression at times and just chase her and I don't know if they do this because she growls at them or not.

I've tried Feliway and it didn't help her at all. I've also tried some herbal things that didn't work.

Thanks,
Melissa

Wow. That's a brainbuster, all right. Usually I think of "pain peeing" from crystals as a totally different situation from "stress peeing," and I've never heard of a cat having both kinds of crystals at once. That's truly weird - it makes me wonder whether there might have been two different cats' pee in the sample.

At least it sounds like the valium helped her, so maybe she's able to pee but holding it out of nervousness? Do the other cats attack or watch her in the litterbox?

Anyway, another thing that helps with stress is Feliway, a sort of "kitty incense" that mimics their "this is a safe place" facial scent hormone. And since there are indeed crystals involved, it might be worth asking the vet whether Cosequin (a supplement to strengthen the lining of the bladder/urethra) might help.

Please keep us posted!

Love, Columbine