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Hi all,
My cat, Autumn, is 12 1/2, and was diagnosed with FIC/FLUTD about 3 years ago. Well, there's been a sudden change in her behavior - for the first time in her life, she is starting to pee on my clothes and other soft, cloth items. At first I thought it was because my work clothes smell like dog pee (kennel tech) but then I caught her just now peeing on sheets I put in the laundry pile.
I'm scrambling to pick up and put away all the dirty laundry I have on the floor before work, as I feel as if closing her out of my room may worsen her condition. I have the next two days off and just got a new car allowing me to take her to the vet ASAP, and she's due for a checkup anyway.
I have to order the food she eats online (Wysong Uretic - she snubbed her nose at Hills and Purina RX), and this past time a couple weeks ago I ordered a bit late and they shipped it from a warehouse all the way across the country instead of the one they usually ship from ~2 hours away, so she had to eat a different food for a few days. She does well on the food she eats, would just a few days off of it be enough to cause what appears to be delayed symptoms? I know sometimes picky cats get stressed out when something like that changes, and I've also been stressed out lately and my work hours increased again recently, which could also be affecting her.
The vet's office is closed right now so I have to wait until 9AM to call them, so I figure I'd post here in the meantime. I'm scared because she's never acted this way before, and she's also been more clingy lately. Her symptoms are otherwise typical of her flares. I do want to make sure she has no other underlying medical issues that developed since her last checkup, but if the bloodwork comes back clear they'll probably just tell me to make sure she's comfortable, right? She's been prescribed courses of Clavamox in the past, but it's hard to tell if that or time really made a difference, especially since her issues aren't always caused by an infection.
My cat, Autumn, is 12 1/2, and was diagnosed with FIC/FLUTD about 3 years ago. Well, there's been a sudden change in her behavior - for the first time in her life, she is starting to pee on my clothes and other soft, cloth items. At first I thought it was because my work clothes smell like dog pee (kennel tech) but then I caught her just now peeing on sheets I put in the laundry pile.
I'm scrambling to pick up and put away all the dirty laundry I have on the floor before work, as I feel as if closing her out of my room may worsen her condition. I have the next two days off and just got a new car allowing me to take her to the vet ASAP, and she's due for a checkup anyway.
I have to order the food she eats online (Wysong Uretic - she snubbed her nose at Hills and Purina RX), and this past time a couple weeks ago I ordered a bit late and they shipped it from a warehouse all the way across the country instead of the one they usually ship from ~2 hours away, so she had to eat a different food for a few days. She does well on the food she eats, would just a few days off of it be enough to cause what appears to be delayed symptoms? I know sometimes picky cats get stressed out when something like that changes, and I've also been stressed out lately and my work hours increased again recently, which could also be affecting her.
The vet's office is closed right now so I have to wait until 9AM to call them, so I figure I'd post here in the meantime. I'm scared because she's never acted this way before, and she's also been more clingy lately. Her symptoms are otherwise typical of her flares. I do want to make sure she has no other underlying medical issues that developed since her last checkup, but if the bloodwork comes back clear they'll probably just tell me to make sure she's comfortable, right? She's been prescribed courses of Clavamox in the past, but it's hard to tell if that or time really made a difference, especially since her issues aren't always caused by an infection.
I'm afraid I might have to "quarantine" her out of my bedroom until this stops - I *just* did my laundry, have no other clean sheets and cannot afford to just keep doing it repeatedly. I believe she has probably leaked in the past, it's just much more noticeable combined with the inappropriate urination. I guess I just have to keep an eye on her, keep all cloth off the floor and keep her off my bed. I hope this isn't the result of diabetes or anything. As she mostly drinks from the tub and isn't an only cat her liquid consumption is hard to gauge.
