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If you don't mind reading/checking out my other related posts, to get the full back story:
http://www.thecatsite.com/t/327661/...fellow-cat-owners-lovers-considering-rehoming
http://www.thecatsite.com/t/327692/cheapest-most-affordable-grain-free-or-healthiest-canned-food
I have an almost 5 year old male cat (Qi) urinating constantly outside the litter box ( he has a littermate/brother as well)
I have done hours of research online and in books over the years and done all the things off the list that have been within my means (and even not within my means, I'm in debt because of this issue!)
Things I've tried:
Perscription hills c/d urinary care food
Different shapes and sizes of litter boxes
I made a litter box out of a storage/rubbermaid bin
Different levels of litter
Different litter (Cat Attract)
Feliway spray
Feliway diffuser
I use an enzymatic cleaner (Urine Destroyer- Nature's Miracle) to thoroughly clean the urine
I have placed a litter box everywhere that he has peed outside the litter box (5 litter boxes in a 1 bedroom apartment) My apartment is essentially a giant litterbox...they are everywhere...
Vitamins and Supplements (Anitra's Frazier's vita-mineral mix recipe homemade)
Feline omega 3- fish oil added to the food
Successfully transitioned him to wet food and off of his prescription hills c/d urinary care DRY food (which is super crap/expensive food and he was addicted to it, and still urinating outside the box, vocalizing while urinating while eating that food...didn't have crystals but still the urinating outside the litterbox issue)
Eureka! (is what I thought once he started eating his brother's wet food one day a couple weeks ago, thought all of the urinary problems were solved, as everyone had told me, even vets, if you could just get him to eat wet food...But it is a constant battle/stress and always don't know whether it's behavioral or medical...or both)
Every time in the last year and a half that he has had a urinalysis (which has been 2-3) it has come back as no infection, no blood, no crystals.
There have been times in the last year where he has stopped for about a week or longer and then it will start up again, kind of like a binge.
Right now it's a really bad one and he has started vocalizing while urinating before or after (which he has done in the past, I have rushed him to the vet and there was no infection) I actually can't continue to afford hundreds of dollars on vet visits, urinalysis and meds that amount to nothing.
I will continue to go into debt and purchase things people on this wonderful site have suggested as a last resort. The last thing I want to do is have to rehome my cats because they are my family. But I am honestly at my wit's end.
Even if anyone here can relate or just have understanding and compassion I am grateful. But any additional tips, resources that I have not mentioned would be so helpful to me.
Thanks for your time in reading my post.
http://www.thecatsite.com/t/327661/...fellow-cat-owners-lovers-considering-rehoming
http://www.thecatsite.com/t/327692/cheapest-most-affordable-grain-free-or-healthiest-canned-food
I have an almost 5 year old male cat (Qi) urinating constantly outside the litter box ( he has a littermate/brother as well)
I have done hours of research online and in books over the years and done all the things off the list that have been within my means (and even not within my means, I'm in debt because of this issue!)
Things I've tried:
Perscription hills c/d urinary care food
Different shapes and sizes of litter boxes
I made a litter box out of a storage/rubbermaid bin
Different levels of litter
Different litter (Cat Attract)
Feliway spray
Feliway diffuser
I use an enzymatic cleaner (Urine Destroyer- Nature's Miracle) to thoroughly clean the urine
I have placed a litter box everywhere that he has peed outside the litter box (5 litter boxes in a 1 bedroom apartment) My apartment is essentially a giant litterbox...they are everywhere...
Vitamins and Supplements (Anitra's Frazier's vita-mineral mix recipe homemade)
Feline omega 3- fish oil added to the food
Successfully transitioned him to wet food and off of his prescription hills c/d urinary care DRY food (which is super crap/expensive food and he was addicted to it, and still urinating outside the box, vocalizing while urinating while eating that food...didn't have crystals but still the urinating outside the litterbox issue)
Eureka! (is what I thought once he started eating his brother's wet food one day a couple weeks ago, thought all of the urinary problems were solved, as everyone had told me, even vets, if you could just get him to eat wet food...But it is a constant battle/stress and always don't know whether it's behavioral or medical...or both)
Every time in the last year and a half that he has had a urinalysis (which has been 2-3) it has come back as no infection, no blood, no crystals.
There have been times in the last year where he has stopped for about a week or longer and then it will start up again, kind of like a binge.
Right now it's a really bad one and he has started vocalizing while urinating before or after (which he has done in the past, I have rushed him to the vet and there was no infection) I actually can't continue to afford hundreds of dollars on vet visits, urinalysis and meds that amount to nothing.
I will continue to go into debt and purchase things people on this wonderful site have suggested as a last resort. The last thing I want to do is have to rehome my cats because they are my family. But I am honestly at my wit's end.
Even if anyone here can relate or just have understanding and compassion I am grateful. But any additional tips, resources that I have not mentioned would be so helpful to me.
Thanks for your time in reading my post.