I am looking for some opinions concerning a cat I am fostering for our local HS.
Fred came from a vet's office to stay with us on Nov. 27th. He had spent several days at the office, brought in by someone to be euth'd, but the vet offered to save him and contacted the HS to take him. He, at that time, had blood coming from the urethra. He was given Clavamox and I continued to give it a week after he came here. At that time he was still doing very small, very frequent pees in the box. So they extended his antibiotic (which I thought should have been done in the first place).
On Dec. 9th, he was still on the Clavamox, when I noticed he was in position, and the pee was dribbling out, but not streaming out.
On Dec. 10th, he was still on Clavamox. At one point, he was in position, nothing came out. As I waited for a call back from the vet/HS, he returned to the litterbox (about 45 min later) and this time in a standing position, he peed, but his tail was waggling in a spraying type motion. Though his tail waggled, and the vet insists he was spraying, I tried to explain that he was in a standing position but his hind end was hunched slightly, and the urine did not spray out, it dribbled out. It was more of what I would guess to be a straining motion than a territorial marking motion.
At this time the vet prescribed a second antibiotic. The name slips my mind right now but he is on it for 2 weeks.
This is day 6 of the new antibiotic, and he is still peeing somewhat frequently.
Judging by the urine streaks on the side of the litterbox, I'd say that when I'm not around, he is still urinating from a standing position.
I have him on wet foods only. He has been on wet foods only since Nov 27th when I picked him up.
He has in the past two days developed a bit of a personality change. He has been a very sweet cat, very loving, very head-bumpy and full of purrrrs. The past two days, he has been attacking my feet, he lets out battlecry style yowls and hisses if he is touched, or if I need to move him out of my way (like to sweep, de-hair his bed, etc). He grabbed a towel that was draped over my arm as I walked by, and when I tried to detach his nails from the towel, he yelled, and bambambam swatted me repeatedly. These are not playful behaviors.
What would be your plan of action? Keep in mind this is an HS cat, and I'm not in charge of what happens, but they do take my opinions into consideration. Personally, I feel some testing (urinalysis) is in order. I don't think he is in immediate danger, but I do feel that something is not right. Something is bothering him, whether it be a cystitis type of thing or something greater, it doesn't seem like the antibiotic is doing the trick. Science Diet (S/D, C/D) was mentioned by the vet, I'm not on board with that plan of action, I don't believe the HS is at this point as well.
Fred came from a vet's office to stay with us on Nov. 27th. He had spent several days at the office, brought in by someone to be euth'd, but the vet offered to save him and contacted the HS to take him. He, at that time, had blood coming from the urethra. He was given Clavamox and I continued to give it a week after he came here. At that time he was still doing very small, very frequent pees in the box. So they extended his antibiotic (which I thought should have been done in the first place).
On Dec. 9th, he was still on the Clavamox, when I noticed he was in position, and the pee was dribbling out, but not streaming out.
On Dec. 10th, he was still on Clavamox. At one point, he was in position, nothing came out. As I waited for a call back from the vet/HS, he returned to the litterbox (about 45 min later) and this time in a standing position, he peed, but his tail was waggling in a spraying type motion. Though his tail waggled, and the vet insists he was spraying, I tried to explain that he was in a standing position but his hind end was hunched slightly, and the urine did not spray out, it dribbled out. It was more of what I would guess to be a straining motion than a territorial marking motion.
At this time the vet prescribed a second antibiotic. The name slips my mind right now but he is on it for 2 weeks.
This is day 6 of the new antibiotic, and he is still peeing somewhat frequently.
Judging by the urine streaks on the side of the litterbox, I'd say that when I'm not around, he is still urinating from a standing position.
I have him on wet foods only. He has been on wet foods only since Nov 27th when I picked him up.
He has in the past two days developed a bit of a personality change. He has been a very sweet cat, very loving, very head-bumpy and full of purrrrs. The past two days, he has been attacking my feet, he lets out battlecry style yowls and hisses if he is touched, or if I need to move him out of my way (like to sweep, de-hair his bed, etc). He grabbed a towel that was draped over my arm as I walked by, and when I tried to detach his nails from the towel, he yelled, and bambambam swatted me repeatedly. These are not playful behaviors.
What would be your plan of action? Keep in mind this is an HS cat, and I'm not in charge of what happens, but they do take my opinions into consideration. Personally, I feel some testing (urinalysis) is in order. I don't think he is in immediate danger, but I do feel that something is not right. Something is bothering him, whether it be a cystitis type of thing or something greater, it doesn't seem like the antibiotic is doing the trick. Science Diet (S/D, C/D) was mentioned by the vet, I'm not on board with that plan of action, I don't believe the HS is at this point as well.