Yeah, I noticed one of our cats using the litter box a bit more than usual, and sometimes he’d use it a second time pretty quickly after the first. Turned out he had a urinary problem.
We have another cat that is in stage 4 kidney disease. Other than how thin he is, you wouldn’t know there was anything wrong.
Yeah, regular kidney screening is a must in my opinion, because it’s an awful way to go for them. Got a rescue once, only about 3 months old which was kept in awful conditions before. Turned out that her kidneys were already badly damaged when we got her, but we noticed it only a month in and she didn’t get older than 7 months, and it was awful seeing her suffer regardless of what we tried :-(
Awww I’m sorry. In our case he’s an older cat - we’ve had him 12 years, but he was already at least a year old when we adopted him.
For now he’s doing reasonably well - still grooming himself, still purring, still happy (though he spends practically all day nestled in a corner of my wife’s office). We’re giving him medicine and fluids via injection every day. The vet has warned us that it’s likely his situation will take a nose dive at some point.
Yeah, I noticed one of our cats using the litter box a bit more than usual, and sometimes he’d use it a second time pretty quickly after the first. Turned out he had a urinary problem.
We have another cat that is in stage 4 kidney disease. Other than how thin he is, you wouldn’t know there was anything wrong.
Yeah, regular kidney screening is a must in my opinion, because it’s an awful way to go for them. Got a rescue once, only about 3 months old which was kept in awful conditions before. Turned out that her kidneys were already badly damaged when we got her, but we noticed it only a month in and she didn’t get older than 7 months, and it was awful seeing her suffer regardless of what we tried :-(
Awww I’m sorry. In our case he’s an older cat - we’ve had him 12 years, but he was already at least a year old when we adopted him.
For now he’s doing reasonably well - still grooming himself, still purring, still happy (though he spends practically all day nestled in a corner of my wife’s office). We’re giving him medicine and fluids via injection every day. The vet has warned us that it’s likely his situation will take a nose dive at some point.