Quote Originally Posted by Scooter's Mom
Here's Charlie's history.
We adopted Charlie from a shelter on December 10, 2005. He walked around just yowling/meowing at the top of his lungs... Still does. They neutered him at the shelter, microchipped him and gave him all his shots, as well as tested him for kitty diseases (I don't know offhand the names of them sorry).

Well, when we took him to our regular vet when his shots were due, we were looking over the paperwork from the shelter. There was a little note that said that when they did his neuter, they could only locate one testicle. So, he got all his shots at the vet, and when we got the money we had our vet actually open him up and search for that missing testicle... which she did not find.

Charlie still meows constantly! He's also very THIN. I mean, he eats all the time but he's so skinny. I keep telling my husband something is wrong with Charlie, but my husband says no there isn't... that there are large people and small people and kitties are just like people. He uses his box fine, and it appears "normal".

Well, Charlie just pee'd on me! I was sitting here with a light fleece blanket covering my legs (old childhood habit, even when it's 100+ outside I have to have a blanket) and felt something against my leg... reached down and it was kitty pee... I figure he was marking me.

I've got appointments to take the kitties into the vet on Saturday morning already. Does anyone have suggestions for me as to what I can ask the vet about what could be wrong with him? I have had good luck with my kitties, never really had one who was ill or bad mannered before now, so I don't know what to ask about.

Thanks for the suggestions & advice.

When you go to the vet bring with you (in case the vet asks):

All the lables from all the food/treats you are feeding Charlie (only need the parts with the name/% of protien etc/ and ingredients)

A fresh stool sample, some litter in it is fine.

Make a note of how much Charlie is normally fed each day (you may need to measure it out to be sure) and how often you feed him.

Make note if Charlie has been drinking more water than he did say 6 months ago.

Is Charlie going to the litter box more/less often than he used to.



Personally if Charlie were my cat I'd at least ask about having any of these tests done and see what your vet thinks:

Stool check for parasites

CBC (blood test that checks for infections among other things)

Thyroid (t4 & t3)

BUN, Creatinie, Glucose, ALKP, ALT (blood tests that check on the function of liver, kidneys and blood sugar).

Any one of those things not being right may cause Charlie to be peeing innapropriately and be thin despite eating alot.

As far as Charlie being a unilateral cryptorchid (one testical decended) from what little I know about not being able to find the second testicle there are other ways of finding out if one is in there.

Taken from ivis.org

In a cryptorchid cat, an examination of penis for presence of spines is an excellent diagnostic technique. Penile spines, which are testosterone dependent, become atrophied after 6 weeks of castration.

They can also do blood sample tests for testoterone which would indicate if the other testicle is indeed in there somewhere. If one is, some of the symptoms noticed per that article are excessive meowing, and urine marking. So that might be part of the problem also.



Keep us posted as to what your vet finds out.