My Cat Keeps Peeing Help

Sammiches said:

It's something that may not seem to bother your cat during the earlier stages but if your cat dies at the age of 10~12, chances are it's their food because they could live well into their 20s otherwise.

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I have a friend who feeds Purina, and his cats are actually in their 20s now. This canned food is keeping my cat alive, he would be dead without it.

maggiedemi said:

I have a friend who feeds Purina, and his cats are actually in their 20s now. This canned food is keeping my cat alive, he would be dead without it.

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I also know of a few smokers all of their lives that's in their 90s.

In any case I'm not saying canned food is bad, I'm just saying Purina tends to have lower quality ones. If your cat survives off of it then good, but it's definitely not doing them any favors over higher quality food. I do however understand that's not always an option to buy high quality foods that your wallet can afford or your cat can enjoy.

Sammiches said:

but it's definitely not doing them any favors over higher quality food.

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That's your opinion. I "definitely" think he is doing well on it. And my friend has several cats on this food that are in their 20s now, some in their late 20s. I want people to know about this affordable option.

stellasmommy said:

Can anyone please tell me how long you leave wet food until you decide they’re bad?

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I leave it all day until dinner time. If any is left I dump it then. My cat can decide for herself if she wants to eat it or not.

stellasmommy said:

It’s been two hours now since I got the wet food but still no luck is it a waste now?

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No way, cats have a sense of smell, if it smells bad they probably won't eat it. Most cats aren't nearly as sensitive as people are to room temperature food.

FeebysOwner said:

I will leave Feeby's out for up to 4 hours. I have heard others on here who say they are comfortable with leaving it out for up to 8 hours. That freaks me out a bit, but I wouldn't fret about 2 hours. If it is cold, perhaps it 4-6 hours isn't a big deal.

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I don't put a time on it. I put out some for breakfast, if I come back later and there is still some I will add a little more warm water to freshen it up. Then at dinner if there is any left I will dump it out then.

Sammiches said:

Besides fancy feast being lower quality wet canned food

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Sammiches said:

If your cat survives off of it then good, but it's definitely not doing them any favors over higher quality food.

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Ehhhhh I don't know, I get where you are coming from, but it really depends on the cat and what works for them. I have a cat in diabetic remission and all I care about is carbs in her food. Fancy Feast and Friskies Classics have around 5% and there is a Fancy Feast that has 0% carbs. This is important for an ex-diabetic. Really paying attention to carb percentage is very important for any cats as they don't need too many (carbs = sugar = possibility of diabetes). Plus a lot of the top of the line "grain-free" (marketing scam!) foods are jam packed with carbs and starches in other form like potatoes and peas.... cats don't need these! They are strict carnivores.

maggiedemi said:

That's your opinion. I "definitely" think he is doing well on it. And my friend has several cats on this food that are in their 20s now, some in their late 20s. I want people to know about this affordable option.

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I'm not gonna argue with you, if you want to keep feeding your cat FF then by all means they're your cat hence your choice. I wish your cats the best of health and for them to live a long happy life.

@OP
I still recommend the Sheba Perfect Portions Pate variety that I linked earlier as an affordable option. When broken down 24 cans FF vs 48 single serve portions the FF is .183 cents per ounce and the Sheba is 0.167 cents per ounce. It's the lowest it has ever been discounted and it usually happens during the holiday seasons which is right now. Normally they do cost more than the FF but not by much so right now is a good time to pick some up. Plus you can open half a container instead and save the trouble of refrigerating the rest.

Alternatively search this up on Amazon(Zero meat by-product aka higher quality food compared to FF or Sheba for $14.24 S&S) - NUTRO Adult Wet Cat Food Pate Multi-Pack Chicken & Turkey 24 Twinpacks

This comes with 2 boxes of 2x12 single serves so a total of 48 single serves total. For whatever reasons if you buy just chicken or turkey flavors on their own, it costs $30 but when in a variety pack of chicken AND turkey, it's more than 50% off. Not sure why but only Amazon has this price cut, no other sites seem to do it. My only guess is that it's a price mistake and they haven't realized it yet but they will honor the price if you bought it at that price.

jen
Truth of the matter is, cats do benefit from vegetables. It's not a bad idea to give cats stuff like peas or pumpkin but never should vegetables be in the top 3 ingredients. That spot should be reserved for named meats and broth. Though I do believe you're right about the potatoes. Cooked potatoes meanwhile not harmful in small doses, they don't seem to give much nutritional benefits for cats yet has a bunch of carbs. So pretty bad in the long run.

Sammiches said:

Zero meat by-product aka higher quality food compared to FF or Sheba

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"In your opinion." Carry On.

Just saying, my elderly cat who is now at the Bridge never ate wet food. I tried all kinds. She would take a few licks of fancy feast pate turkey. I mashed it with a fork and added hot water to it. Make it like pudding. The other cats would try it but then left it out overnight. My house is set to 65 at night. Dont forget air at the floor is colder than air higher up. All it did was look like dried junk. I tried chunks and other expensive ones but nope none of them would eat it. I found a variety is best. But if the cat won't eat it?! Stress also causes UTI's. You may want to have 2 cat boxes for the one cat. She may want to poop in one then pee in the other. My remaining kitty loves having 3 cat boxes. She lately has been using the smaller one...why do they always use the tiny box and ignore the nice big ones?!

foxxycat said:

I tried chunks and other expensive ones but nope none of them would eat it.

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You give your cats diluted tuna water though, so they are getting a good amount of moisture. That's another thing that the original poster could try, the juice from a can of tuna diluted with water, maybe even try pouring it over the wet or dry food.

I forgot about the tuna...most people frown on it..I have been feeding them tuna for years. They get 2 tablespoons of tuna along with 1/4 cup of water added to it-mashed up it almost looks like tuna soup..Honeybee likes to lap up the juice..and she's also on miralax which I am slowly weaning her off and upping the canned pumpkin. The pumpkin makes her stink though. YUCK,

maggiedemi said:

"In your opinion." Carry On.

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You keep saying "your(my) opinion" but from the looks of it, "your opinions" makes mines look like facts.

In fact, some of mines are facts(seriously, do some deep research into it). None of yours are though so far, they're all opinions. I'll give you an example of a fact from the last time you quoted me. Meat by-product is lower quality food was the thing you quoted. This is a fact, not opinion depending on the case. Sure meat by-product "could" be good for your cat if the mysterious meat parts that were grinded in just so happen to be good relatively healthy parts of an animal for your cat but it can also provide parts that aren't particularly good. That mystery meat could also very well be 90% of something that's very sparse in nutrition(if any) and aren't very good if consumed in large portions.

But I can agree with that one part, we can agree to disagree.

Like I said, Carry On.

stellasmommy said:

Can anyone please tell me how long you leave wet food until you decide they’re bad?

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My vet has told me that it is fine to leave wet food out for 6-8 hours. I have followed that advice for years without problem. Wet food is generally pasteurized, so even if the food doesn't taste the freshest after a few hours it is still safe for the cat to eat.

Good luck with treating your cat's UTI. I'm glad to know that you have an answer to the problem. Hopefully she will be feeling better after a couple of days on the antibiotics and things will go back to normal.

We had to transition ours to a wet diet from free feeding dry when Charlie had a blockage. To have an added complication, Charlie needed a special diet to be honest, we couldn't afford to feed both the cats the same in the long term and we didn't want to separate them as they had bonded over food more than any other resource, so we decided that feeding wet was going to be the best and cheapest options for us at that time. Neither of our cats had wet before apart from basic kitten food.

Initially, we stopped the free feeding, and we put down meals (urinary SO dry) at set times. This didn't work very well for us because we both worked shifts and the variance didn't work with any routine. It was difficult for us to ensure that they weren't fed twice at any given time. We had to try really hard and remember to say " I have done breakfast / lunch" etc. It was tough when neither one of us would be back until late because they were so used to helping themselves it was like well what if we can't get back until 10? well we soon learned if we weren't back the cats would be hungry but we could spread out the dry and slow down the feeding.

Secondly we replaced one "meal" with wet food, we used different wet foods and different flavors. The fish based dishes are their favorite. We tried quite a few different options. Pouches are better because they come in smaller portions. They seem to find the gravy ones better. Jellies they just lick and lick and lick and don't eat any of the chunks. With the gravy meaty bits they will actually eat some.

For ages, they preferred the cheapest option available which was a pate produced by lidl. They are 20p so you get 5 meals for £1. Quality wasn't great but we were feeding *Less* of a high quality dry at other meals and mashing the pate up with extra water. One day they both just stopped eating or even being interested in that and we had to go back to trialing other wet food. Right now we are feeding a Whiska's wet, which was £8 for 40 pouches. We alternate days, Some days they get more wet food, and some days they get more dry. We do also use tuna, in spring water or brine once a week or so, and we rinse the tuna before putting it on a plate with added water. We now use this to "treat" them to a nice dose of any tablets they may require as well.


You don't have to feed your cat whole cans of tuna. you can use Chicken broth or Tuna water to flavor the water (offer a plain fresh water too though). Some cats will only drink running water. Pet fountains are available. It's best to spread water out in places around your home, naturally, cats tend to look for a source that is not near their food or their toilet. But yes 70% of the cat's fluid intake should come from their food.

You may find a raw diet might be suitable for your cat, it may actually be cheaper than buying commercial foods if you find a friendly butcher and have the room to freeze large batches. It's an option I tried and failed at, but it doesn't mean you can't try. You can find more information in the nutrition forum. We do sometimes feed Mojo raw beef usually mince (tiny portion like a tablespoon spread on a plastic plate and if they haven't eaten it in about 30 mins then bin it and put out less next time) or the trim of the steak (not the really fatty bits but any thin slices of lean meats, a small bit of fat is ok), but Charlie will not touch it.

Now, they get a small amount of "free fed" dry food which is high quality but not urinary SO and they can graze on that, but we've transitioned to mostly wet. Which to be honest is also really on an "as you want it" basis so we'll put two pouches down in the morning, by about 4 pm they have licked all the liquids and eaten about 2/3rds of the meat. Then we spread out a single pouch on a large plate at about 8 or 9 pm and they will have some. If they eat more than half we will put down another pouch as well and leave it overnight, anything left gets ditched in the morning. It isn't a perfect set up BUT it's working for us, we also spread out their dry intake across their cat trees, up the stairs, on any of their scratching posts and in tight spots they really have to stretch to reach. Of course plenty of water is always on offer as well.

I'm sorry for such a long post but I feel it's important to give details of the steps and adaptations, it's different for everyone, follow what you feel will be best for you and your cat.

Hi guys. So we started her medication yesterday and she was fine. I also got her to finish her wet food! Yay! I’m giving her dry food in the morning and wet at night. This morning I gave her medicine again and she peed a little bit on my Christmas tree. I wasn’t as frustrated since I know she’s sick. My question is, is that okay? It’s her first time peeing anywhere since we got her to the vet. I really don’t want to call the vet and spend more. We just spent $350 two days ago for everything. Please help

stellasmommy said:

Hi guys. So we started her medication yesterday and she was fine. I also got her to finish her wet food! Yay! I’m giving her dry food in the morning and wet at night. This morning I gave her medicine again and she peed a little bit on my Christmas tree. I wasn’t as frustrated since I know she’s sick. My question is, is that okay? It’s her first time peeing anywhere since we got her to the vet. I really don’t want to call the vet and spend more. We just spent $350 two days ago for everything. Please help

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There's progress, good job! Eventually you'll be able to switch her to wet food completely and that should solve a lot of problems.

As for the peeing problem, I would personally rule out the litter type or the litter box before moving on. For my cat I pretty much brought my iPad in a small confined room with nothing to pee on and nothing to hide under and spent the day with her. I had some toys and the only available spot to dig was inside the litter box. I held her near the litter box and demonstrated me digging into the litter with my hands so that she more or less understood that there is digging material inside the box. Eventually she needed to pee and automatically searched for the box to go inside and she's been using that litter box since.

Cats tend to like being able to turn around completely while inside a litter box(you'll see them circling inside their litter box quite often) so I picked up a big litter box which could fit two of her in there comfortably.
This one - https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petco...uFQBGCdvJzqCx2eV_fwyAGFZL_aL6cZRoCLikQAvD_BwE

If you do decide to go with that one, you may want to remove the flaps(which are removable by design) first until she gets used to it. If she avoids the litter box completely though, you may want to consider changing the litter type. I don't think it's the problem but I wouldn't rule it out.

Antibiotics take 24 - 48 hours to work. Until they do peeing will still hurt her. So if she's using the box at all, she's amazing.

what kind of cat litter are you using? My cats don't like the pine pellets or the newspaper pellets either. We tried those crystals that are whitish colored=they didnt like the smell or the texture on their paws. We found a non scented light weight cat litter by cat's pride that they seem to like the best. It's $8 a jug of 15 pounds=fills 1 large cat box. I also scoop every morning and every evening but now that I am down to 1 cat-I scoop every morning now because she's got 3 catboxes to choose from.

They say have 1 catbox plus 1 for each cat. I know the boyfriend wants me to get rid of 2 of them-which I said NOPE. She likes to pee in one and poo in the other which is fine with me.

Also If the litter is stinky dump it out into a black trash bag, fill the box with hot water-use a plastic knife to dig off the clumped mess on it-don't dump it down the drain/toilet. Dump it outside. It can clog up pipes=don't ask me how I know.

I usually can get it clean by the 3rd rinse. I use dawn dish soap in the next washing-then 2 rinses. I let it air dry too. I try to do this monthly but I don't always have time to do it-this winter is kind of challenging since we have already had 3 snow storms and now it's all ice out back where I toss the water.

You can put down pieces of cardboard where your kitty has piddled and use puppy pee pads for now until back using the cat box.

Just a note when we dumped our first box of clumping litter, it turned into a rock that took several months to disappear. Plan where you dump the box.