I took my crazy pill this morning. It has very much improved my mood, sad to say.
Had Japanese for lunch. Today is the sister's birthday but she is celebrating by going out with her hubby. Phew, that gets me off the hook....now I can go straight home and be lazy.
Has the cat been diagnosed with feline urinary syndrome?
I had a male cat with that and he died at an early age-- 3 yrs--despite all of our efforts. He'd get plugged with crystals all the time and have to go get unblocked... We even went as far as getting him "the surgery" which basically made his part like a girl part than a boy part...that made the hole bigger to get the crystals out. He just was plagued with it all the time. I was in highschool and in retrospect I wish they would have told me to change his diet as well but we (me and my parents) never did. He was such a cool cat. My all time favorite. When he was a kitten he'd climb me like a tree AAH and then sit on my shoulders. He'd attack me from under furniture when I'd walk by. He rubbed my face every morning. He stole my cracklin oat bran. His favorite chips were Mr. G's. He beat up all the other cats. He chewed my best friends foot when she spent the night. He rocked.
yup...that's it. I have to admit i was intimidated when i saw all the time stamps to choose from...i just don't get all of that. I'm in Illinois--that's in the middle---that's all i know.
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I had French Onion cheese on crackers. I just ate a candy cane to counter the onion effect. I noticed someone else leaning away from me when I was talking to him. Then again, the fact that I'm stuffed up, hoarse and look feverish may've had more to do with it than my breath....
Beaner, I bet your co-workers would start a fund to help keep you on your meds!
My Norman has FUS......he has had it from an early age. Maybe 2 years old or so? Not long after he started having seizures. I think it was the next year he started with the peeing problems. He is now 10 (!!) years old....amazing he has survived this long with the urinary AND seizure troubles....Gets his phenobarb twice a day and I have him on a "special diet" aka LOTS of canned food and a bowl he loves to drink out of. We took him off prescription foods and gave him normal foods plus that methigel twice a day....once his crystals were cleared up, we just moved him to lots of canned food. He hasn't had any major issues in YEARS now. All cats should get canned food. Much healthier for them than dry...my cats have free choice dry food but get a nice big can once or twice a day.
mapes, Spearmint is a boy. This is his second infection in two and a half years, so hopefully he doesn't have the syndrome.
He's pretty young to have them at all, though, so I do worry about him.
I had him on urinary tract food but the problem is that he and our other housecat Radar eat together and he'd rather eat Radar's low calorie food than the UT food. One of my friends has a male cat that suffered from a lot of UTIs until her vet told her to switch him to Diamond cat food. I found a feed store in town that carries it so we're going to give that a try; they can both eat it and we'll see how it goes.