Hi everyone. My vet thought he saw a couple of different crystals when he looked at his urine at his office but other than that everything looked fine. The lab results said that everything was fine except that his ph was a little high. The problem with lab tests is that by the time the urine gets to the lab, if the urine had any crystals in it they would have probably already dissappeared. You need fresh urine samples to test for crystals.

I'm just assuming that he has them so he's also going to be going on the Hills Precription c/d diet just like Cirrus. My vet said that this diet helps both struvite and calcium oxalate crystals which are the two most common types of crystals. Eventually I'll be putting all 4 cats on this as a preventative for crystals so hopefully I won't have to go through this terrible experience again. Storm will need to monitored and will probably need to have another urinalysis done in about a month or so. I may wait a bit longer depending on how he's doing.

He was a very good boy at the vets and everyone fell in love with him. When I went to pick him up, he sat on my lap in the waiting room as calm as could be and when he went back in his carrier he stretched out and relaxed like he was at home. I've never seen him so relaxed at the vets before. There were dogs barking and a lot of other noise but nothing seemed to bother him. Now hopefully he'll remain healthy on this new diet. Some cats that have calcium oxalates will still form them while on a special diet so he needs to be monitored.

Thanks everyone for your concerns.