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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / December 2004MAGI TO THE VET
Hi, Please wish my cat MAGI luck today in going to the vet! Last night she started to leave little spots and trailing spots of urine on the couch and on the bed. It's the first time she has ever done this. According to the information I quickly web-researched it's either marking or a UTI or UT blockage. At 5 this morning I woke up to hear her yelping in the living room but when I picked her up she was OK. I think she wanted something to eat so I gave her an early breakfast and she was fine. Shortly afterwards she jumped onto bed and did a little spot of urine, jumped off and went to her litter tray then came back and did it again. My other half got up to go to work and said she was also 'spotting' on the couch in the living room. Her behaviour also seems to have changed. Though this over the last week or so. Previously she was a moderately active but quiet cat. Now she is quite bouncy and more skitterish than usual - we were thinking then that her has come on very well and she was becoming more of a cat. MAGI is a portal-systemic shunt affected cat and is largely treated with lactulose and anti-ammonia supplementation. If it is marking then we figure that since she shares the house with two other cats BISCUIT & JADE she is now 'coming out of herself' and starting to be more assertive. As you can imagine though doing it in this particular way could present problems. However, if it is illness then it is something else. She is not in pain but does look a little more pensive and staring into space than usual. She had been slightly damaged by the early years of her illness and treatment and is partially-sighted. Actually when I ask you to wish her luck I should ask that you wish the vet luck too!!! MAGI can be quite terrifying when starngers are near her and especially so when the stranger is wearing a white coat!!! Iain Halder Rescued Cats & Kittens Needing Homes >'o'< www.celiahammond.org >'o'< >'o'< www.cat77.org.uk >'o'< > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > near her and especially so when the stranger is wearing a white > coat!!! Healing wishes for everyone. I hope it is something very small that can be rectified easily. She is lucky you love her so much and take good care of her. > Hi, > > Please wish my cat MAGI luck today in going to the vet! Good luck! I hope it's nothing serious. Keep us posted!  Signature-Kelly kelly at farringtons dot net www.kelltek.com Check out www.snittens.com Many purrs for an easily treatable problem. PLease keep us posted. Hi, Took MAGI to the vet - not her usual vet as yesterday and today are neutering days at the rescue centre. The vet said it was CYSTITIS and injected her with CLAMOXYL LA and DEXADRESEN. By last night she was much relieved and had stopped 'spotting' however this morning she is 'spotting' again! :-( She jumped into bed to say 'good-morning' and left me with more of her current 'good-mornings' than I wanted!!! The vet did say if it did not work then to bring her back on Wednesday. So this looks likely but she has another day to go. In the meantime I have isolated her in the bathroom area with a running bathtap tap trickling water into a bowl, a cleaned-up toilet tray and a comfy-box that she likes to sleep in along with a bowl of wet food. I'm at work today but tomorrow we also need to do the big clean up. She preferred the bed and the couch but I expect with the urgency the cystitis gave her she probably 'spotted' onto the carpets as well. So we are throwing out the bedding, etc and getting the couch cleaned and the floors. Our lovely little madam will be residing in the bathroom until this is sorted out though. I'm trying to figure out how she got it and my first theory is that since MAGI is on lactulose an over-runny toilet may have infected her by accient. So if this is so, I need to tighten up and take more care of the lactulose-giving. Has anybody experience of dealing with this kind of infection in a female cat? I'd appreciate any advice. There was a suggestion I read that cystitis was viral in nature so I'm not sure what effect and antibiotic may actually have. Iain Halder PS: The nutty message earlier with my name attached is not anything to do with me folks!!! Rescued Cats & Kittens Needing Homes >'o'< www.celiahammond.org >'o'< >'o'< www.cat77.org.uk >'o'< > Has anybody experience of dealing with this kind of infection in a > female cat? I'd appreciate any advice. There was a suggestion I read > that cystitis was viral in nature so I'm not sure what effect and > antibiotic may actually have. > > Iain Halder I've never had this in female cat, but my Bartleby had become blocked several times a few years ago. Does Magi get canned food? This will increase her water intake and keep her from becoming blocked. Have you seen any blood in her urine? I hope she's feeling better soon. Signature-Kelly kelly at farringtons dot net "Wake up, and smell the cat food" -TMBG Yes, she gets WHISKAS & FRISKIES - the small 100g pouch versions. I try giving her the healthy vet foods but she won't touch them. With the change in her condition I add quite a bit of water now. Fortunately she is happy to lap up the water-component tinged with the meat gravy and the lactulose I give her. MAGI has never been a cat big on dried food - she'll give them the odd crunch but she's not like BISCUIT who is totally into dried biscuit food and will touch little else. There was no blood in the urine but when the sheets dried out there was a dark ring inside the dried urine patch but it was not pink or red in colour. I assume this was just normal waste components of the urine. The antibiotics do seem to have done the trick! Otherwise I'd be taking her back to the vet today. She is no longer spotting and last night she had stopped 'spotting' in the living room. This morning I allowed her into the bedroom and she made no attempt to jump onto the bed to mark it. I left the door open and later went. She was lying on the bed and when I moved her and took a look it was fine. So, so far, everything looks fine. I just need to go out and buy some new bedding and we'll be dumping the couch as it was a fabric-type one. To tell the truth, it needed replacing anyway!!! I looked up some alternate treatments and one of the options offered was cranberry juice which is supposed to be top-notch for UTI's. Has anyone any experience of 'cranberry'ing their cat?' It may not be necessary if the problem does not re-occur but I'd imagine some cranberry concentrate in a small syringe-feeding session would have helped? Plain yogurt was also offered as an option in order to create friendly bacteria to force the hostile cystitis bacteria out. I'd see no problem there as MAGI gets excitable at the thought of double-cream anyway, so it'd be a simple matter to mix some together. Of course, all of this is followed-up immediately (and during) by a treat of course! Everything we do for MAGI is within a transactional relationship!!! She is a tough little negotiator and will do nothing - take her medicine, her lactulose, her supplements, clip her nails, groom her, take her to the vet, unless there is a meaty treat involved. Mind you, she is getting to like grooming without needing a distracting treat ... Iain >I've never had this in female cat, but my Bartleby had become blocked >several times a few years ago. Does Magi get canned food? This will >increase her water intake and keep her from becoming blocked. Have you seen >any blood in her urine? I hope she's feeling better soon. Rescued Cats & Kittens Needing Homes >'o'< www.celiahammond.org >'o'< >'o'< www.cat77.org.uk >'o'< > I looked up some alternate treatments and one of the options offered > was cranberry juice which is supposed to be top-notch for UTI's. Has > anyone any experience of 'cranberry'ing their cat?' It may not be > necessary if the problem does not re-occur but I'd imagine some > cranberry concentrate in a small syringe-feeding session would have > helped? The canned food I use, Wellness, contains cranberries. I don't know if it's available in the UK. I don't know what effect this has had on Bartleby, but he hasn't had any urinary issues while on Wellness. If Wellness isn't available, check out some other natural cat foods, they might have cranberries. > Plain yogurt was also offered as an option in order to create friendly > bacteria to force the hostile cystitis bacteria out. I'd see no > problem there as MAGI gets excitable at the thought of double-cream > anyway, so it'd be a simple matter to mix some together. I also mix in a few spoonfuls of plain, low-fat yogurt into the Wellness. I started doing this when one of the cat's had diarrhea, and just kept it up as a preventative measure. I'm very glad to hear Magi is doing well! Signature-Kelly kelly at farringtons dot net "Wake up, and smell the cat food" -TMBG That combination of cranberry and yogurt seems to have worked for BARNABY since they are meant to displace unfriendly bacteria in the urinary tract. MAGI has had no re-occurrence and so it seems a one-off nipped in the bud. All the same I tried the cran-yog combo in a bit of double cream and she took to it kind of OK. I've gave her this in small amounts morning and night but I'll stop from tomorrow and see how she goes. It was a good way to get her in some extra calories though. Iain >> I looked up some alternate treatments and one of the options offered >> was cranberry juice which is supposed to be top-notch for UTI's. Has [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >I'm very glad to hear Magi is doing well! Rescued Cats & Kittens Needing Homes >'o'< www.celiahammond.org >'o'< >'o'< www.cat77.org.uk >'o'< > I looked up some alternate treatments and one of the options offered was > cranberry juice which is supposed to be top-notch for UTI's. Has anyone any > experience of 'cranberry'ing their cat?' It may not be necessary if the > problem does not re-occur but I'd imagine some cranberry concentrate in a > small syringe-feeding session would have helped? No idea for cats, but I unfortunately had a history of UTIs when I was younger. They suck. I drink cranberry juice as a preventative measure, and it does seem to help. If I think I'm feeling one "coming on," I drink extra amounts of cranberry juice *and* make sure to drink lots of water, as well. Not sure how my experiences relate to cats, though. Signaturemonique, caretaker of Oscar I'm not sure that we are all that different to tell the truth - I mean from the perspective that we (humans & cats) are mammals. Internally the tubing and organs and biochemistry and hormones are much the same. So with regards to cranberry I'd guess that what worked for a human would in all likelihood work for a cat. That is up to a point, of course! Iain >> I looked up some alternate treatments and one of the options offered was >> cranberry juice which is supposed to be top-notch for UTI's. Has anyone any [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Not sure how my experiences relate to cats, though. Rescued Cats & Kittens Needing Homes >'o'< www.celiahammond.org >'o'< >'o'< www.cat77.org.uk >'o'< HI, I'VE NOTICED THAT SOMEONE HAS POSTED A PARANOID & INSANELY-BASED MESSAGE USING MY NAME (Iain Halder) & E-MAIL ADDRESS!!! TO THE SANE REGULARS OF THIS AND OTHER CAT NEWSGROUPS I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT I AM NOT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!!! I DO NOT ENGAGE IN ONLINE ANTI-AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCUSSION. NOR AM I AN AMERICAN THAT I WOULD EVEN BE CONCERNED FOR THE MATTER YOU HAVE BEEN LECTURED ON BY THE INDIVIDUAL HIDING BEHIND MY NAME. MORE SERIOUSLY THOUGH, I'VE ALSO BEEN ADVISED THAT OFFENSIVE E-MAILS HAVE BEEN SENT OUT - AGAIN USING MY NAME & E-MAIL ADDRESS. I WANT YOU ALL HERE TO KNOW THAT I AM NOT THE PERSON BEHIND THESE MESSAGES. IT IS IMPORTANT TO MY CREDIBILITY HERE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND BELEIVE THIS. I APOLOGISE NOW TO EVERYONE HERE FOR ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN BUT IT SEEMS MY INTERNET IDENTITY HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED AS A COVER FOR INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES. I'M NOT AWARE OF HOW THIS HAS BEEN DONE OR HOW THIS CAN BE COUNTERED DIRECTLY - PLEASE ADVISE ME ANYONE HERE WHO MAY ALSO HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS. THANKING YOU ALL. IAIN HALDER (The Real One) Rescued Cats & Kittens Needing Homes >'o'< www.celiahammond.org >'o'< >'o'< www.cat77.org.uk >'o'< HI, I'VE NOTICED THAT SOMEONE HAS POSTED A PARANOID & INSANELY-BASED MESSAGE USING MY NAME (Iain Halder) & E-MAIL ADDRESS!!! TO THE SANE REGULARS OF THIS AND OTHER CAT NEWSGROUPS I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT I AM NOT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!!! I DO NOT ENGAGE IN ONLINE ANTI-AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCUSSION. NOR AM I AN AMERICAN THAT I WOULD EVEN BE CONCERNED FOR THE MATTER YOU HAVE BEEN LECTURED ON BY THE INDIVIDUAL HIDING BEHIND MY NAME. MORE SERIOUSLY THOUGH, I'VE ALSO BEEN ADVISED THAT OFFENSIVE E-MAILS HAVE BEEN SENT OUT - AGAIN USING MY NAME & E-MAIL ADDRESS. I WANT YOU ALL HERE TO KNOW THAT I AM NOT THE PERSON BEHIND THESE MESSAGES. IT IS IMPORTANT TO MY CREDIBILITY HERE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND BELEIVE THIS. I APOLOGISE NOW TO EVERYONE HERE FOR ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN BUT IT SEEMS MY INTERNET IDENTITY HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED AS A COVER FOR INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES. I'M NOT AWARE OF HOW THIS HAS BEEN DONE OR HOW THIS CAN BE COUNTERED DIRECTLY - PLEASE ADVISE ME ANYONE HERE WHO MAY ALSO HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS. THANKING YOU ALL. IAIN HALDER (The Real One) Rescued Cats & Kittens Needing Homes >'o'< www.celiahammond.org >'o'< >'o'< www.cat77.org.uk >'o'< |
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