My cat has been having issues for a while now, but they were relatively mild. He was peeing outside the box (but next to it, for what that's worth) and he's been on thyroid meds for about 5 months. Well, in the past two weeks or so, he's sort of had a lot more accidents. And once he peed on his "bed", but didn't sit in it after, and I caught it and washed it and it was fine. But after he peed on his bed, I called the vet... because clearly something just wasn't right.
The vet came on friday (we have a home vet b/c he freaks out if we go to the regular vet), drew blood, and gave him a saline injection or whatever - because he was dehydrated, and also a steroid to see if these things helped him feel better. Well, saturday, he seemed a lot better, sunday, he starte peeing EVERYWHERE (which the vet said might be normal b/c of the amount of fluid they injected - turns out the bloodwork came back as mild kidney disease - the numbers were around 5, where he said many of the cats he's treating with kidney disease was more like at 10 or 11). It wasn't like he was going out of his way to pee someplace, like mark it or something, but he'd be, say, on his way to the litter box and just pee in the hall... or he'd be at his water dish and pee and then be standing in it
He also jumped into the shower while DH was showering the other day - he's *never* done that, but generally jumps in as soon as we get out. He also pooped in the shower that day and peed in there twice that day, but we haven't seen it since.
He's just been seeming progressively worse. Today he peed ONCE since I got up. He just mostly sits in his bed. Although twice today he's just sat at the water dish for like half an hour (which is up on a table so the kids don't get into it) and once today he fell jumping up there
Needless to say, the water dish will be moved to the floor... but last week he was jumping up there better than he had in YEARS.
I should add that a few months ago he had a bladder infection and we had him on antibiotics for 10 days and that's when he stopped playing with our other cat and pretty much just living on his bed when he wasn't eating, drinking, or using the litter box.
It just seems like everything we do to help him makes him worse Is that even possible? It's always within days of us doing whatever it is to help that he seems like 100 times worse
I'm so worried about him. Last week, I expected another good couple years out of him, this week? I'm shocked when I wake up in the morning and he's still breathing
The vet came on friday (we have a home vet b/c he freaks out if we go to the regular vet), drew blood, and gave him a saline injection or whatever - because he was dehydrated, and also a steroid to see if these things helped him feel better. Well, saturday, he seemed a lot better, sunday, he starte peeing EVERYWHERE (which the vet said might be normal b/c of the amount of fluid they injected - turns out the bloodwork came back as mild kidney disease - the numbers were around 5, where he said many of the cats he's treating with kidney disease was more like at 10 or 11). It wasn't like he was going out of his way to pee someplace, like mark it or something, but he'd be, say, on his way to the litter box and just pee in the hall... or he'd be at his water dish and pee and then be standing in it
He also jumped into the shower while DH was showering the other day - he's *never* done that, but generally jumps in as soon as we get out. He also pooped in the shower that day and peed in there twice that day, but we haven't seen it since.He's just been seeming progressively worse. Today he peed ONCE since I got up. He just mostly sits in his bed. Although twice today he's just sat at the water dish for like half an hour (which is up on a table so the kids don't get into it) and once today he fell jumping up there
Needless to say, the water dish will be moved to the floor... but last week he was jumping up there better than he had in YEARS.I should add that a few months ago he had a bladder infection and we had him on antibiotics for 10 days and that's when he stopped playing with our other cat and pretty much just living on his bed when he wasn't eating, drinking, or using the litter box.
It just seems like everything we do to help him makes him worse
Is that even possible? It's always within days of us doing whatever it is to help that he seems like 100 times worse I'm so worried about him. Last week, I expected another good couple years out of him, this week? I'm shocked when I wake up in the morning and he's still breathing
