Sassy is doing well and has finished her antibiotics for her urinary tract infection. But since she was being treated, I spotted more small clumps of pee in the litter box that were not from her!
I had suspected it was Charlie my orange and grey tabby. Smokie was going in for a blood work recheck and I brought in Charlie as well. I noticed him throwing up, and I thought that maybe he had a UTI that was causing him to throw up. Well good news he didn't have a UTI. Just hairball issues. YAY another cat with hairball issues. He's been started on 1/2 a tablet of Walgreen's version of Fibercon. This has helped with his constipation due to the hairballs. He's also getting 2x a week hairball paste. So far this has helped him. Though some days he doesn't want to take it. So I have to keep trying until he's in a good mood ;) Same with Sassy. She doesn't always like to take her hairball paste either. I have to keep trying until she's ready to take it.
I thought that the UTI's were over, until Smokie started peeing in small amounts and not squatting down in the litter like he was supposed to. So I got a urine sample and brought it to the vet. Sure enough there was some blood in his urine, and she put him on antibiotics. He just finished up his last course. And of course I thought this was it for the UTI's in this household. Apparently not! This past Sunday I spotted Callie squatting to pee, but nothing coming out! She kept going into the litter box and trying to pee but it was dribbling out or didn't come out at all. So of course, I started her on the left over antibiotic I had from Sassy. The first antibiotic that the vet gave me for her she couldn't take so there was some left over. Thank goodness, because I started her on it right away. I noticed a great improvement within 24 hours. So into the vet she went this past Monday 3/28! She's now on something to acidify her urine to help her out and, on antibiotics.
I am really hoping that is the end of the UTI's here. If it were not for the $500 I got back in tax money I don't know where I'd be! That has pretty much been eaten up with UTI's and Smokie's Blood test.
By the way the last time he had his blood work done, his T4 was at a perfect 2.1! So he's now in the normal range. He goes back into the vet for more blood work in June! Hopefully then his Kidney and other numbers will be good as well!
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