how much does your cat pee in a day?

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animzmirot - 04 Aug 2005 04:38 GMT

Ringo is peeing once a day. It's a good sized pee, but is that enough? He's
drinking, he's eating, he seems fine except for the damn sneezing, but I
can't recall whether he peed more when his person was home, or if he's
stressed and not peeing as much. He does seem to be sleeping more, but I'm
not even that sure of that, since we keep very different schedules!

Thanks,

Marjorie

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-L. - 04 Aug 2005 04:53 GMT

> Ringo is peeing once a day. It's a good sized pee, but is that enough? He's
> drinking, he's eating, he seems fine except for the damn sneezing, but I
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> Marjorie

As long as he is eating and drinking ok, I wouldn't worry. If he has
just started sneezing and sneezes a lot in succession, I'd get him
checked for a foreign body in his nasal canal. other than that, it
could be a seasonal allergy.

-L.

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Snittens - 04 Aug 2005 05:13 GMT

>> Ringo is peeing once a day. It's a good sized pee, but is that enough?
>> He's
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> -L.

I agree. You might want to get that sneezing checked out now, it's been
going on for a bit.
I wouldn't worry about the peeing though. Some cats just pee once a day.
If you are concerned you could try to up his water consumption by leaving
various bowls of water around the house.

-Kelly

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animzmirot - 05 Aug 2005 04:16 GMT

> >> Ringo is peeing once a day. It's a good sized pee, but is that enough?
> >> He's
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> If you are concerned you could try to up his water consumption by leaving
> various bowls of water around the house.

I have to laugh at this. You can't even imagine how many bowls of water we
have in this house. Every bathroom (5) has a bowl on the floor. That's three
upstairs, two downstairs. We have one on the front porch (screened in) and
another one on the back porch in case he's outside. Then we have a fountain
with running water that he likes in the hallway. This cat, if he wanted,
could explode drinking the water provided for him daily. We change
EVERYTHING at least twice a day, with some of the bowls in more frequently
used bathrooms changed every time someone visits the facilities. This cat is
so damn spoiled it's insane.

The sneezing seems to be abating at long last. He's coughing a tiny bit, but
again, I'm guessing it's something like dust particles that's annoying him.
In the meantime, he's discovered I'm not the axe murderer he assumed I was
and actually volunteered to sit in my lap this morning. That's a first. I
guess he's figured his person isn't coming back anytime soon, poor thing.

Marjorie

> -Kelly

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Snittens - 05 Aug 2005 04:41 GMT

> I have to laugh at this. You can't even imagine how many bowls of water we
> have in this house. Every bathroom (5) has a bowl on the floor. That's
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> so damn spoiled it's insane.

Haha.. well OK. Nevermind about the water bowls, looks like that's covered

> The sneezing seems to be abating at long last. He's coughing a tiny bit,
> but
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> and actually volunteered to sit in my lap this morning. That's a first. I
> guess he's figured his person isn't coming back anytime soon, poor thing.

That's good that the sneezing is subsiding. Maybe he finally worked out
whatever was up there.
My parents said when I went away to college (for my first semester, came
back home after that) Dash would camp out in front of my bedroom and just
sit there in the hall, or go to the back door and holler. She drove them
crazy!

-Kelly

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Cheryl - 05 Aug 2005 23:30 GMT

> In the meantime, he's discovered I'm not the axe murderer he
> assumed I was and actually volunteered to sit in my lap this
> morning. That's a first. I guess he's figured his person isn't
> coming back anytime soon, poor thing.

Awww You're making progress! I hope he's still on the path to
trusting!

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Elizabeth Blake - 05 Aug 2005 03:20 GMT

> Ringo is peeing once a day. It's a good sized pee, but is that enough?
> He's
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> Marjorie

My cat Tiger (female, 15 years old) has peed once and ONLY once a day for as
long as I've had her (she was 1 1/2 when we got her). She absolutely will
not go more than once a day. She'd hold it in longer, but I put her in the
box every night. We just finished our routing a minute ago. All of the
vets she's seen didn't seem concerned. She always eats & drinks well. I
use clumping litter, and when Tiger goes it foten doesn't fit on the scoop.
A part breaks off and falls back in the box. In volume, it's probably about
the same as my other cat (Otto, 6 years old) who goes 3/4 times a day.

--
Liz

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Brandy Alexandre - 05 Aug 2005 05:58 GMT

animzmirot <margalitc@yahoo.com> wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav:

> Ringo is peeing once a day. It's a good sized pee, but is that
> enough? He's drinking, he's eating, he seems fine except for the
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> Marjorie

Hard to say. Kami pees a LOT everyday because she has CRF. It's
considered kidney FAILURE but the failure is in the ability to rid the
body of toxins, so she drinks a lot so the kidneys will work and do
what little they can to help her out. When it's not enough, it shows
by her being nausious and not eating.

So, my guess is a cat pees as much as it needs to in order to get the
job done. If it's once a dat, so be it.

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