Cats. Can't live with them, can't live without them.

[403]

Our elderly cat has started urinating in the places where she normally sleeps. This is highly uncharacteristic behavior and makes me think she's becoming incontinent. That plus the remarkable amount she drinks and the fact that she didn't entirely stopped vomiting when we got her thyroid levels back down to normal, raises the possibility of chronic kidney failure.

For the moment she's been exiled to the bathroom with a box of ragged old clothes to sleep on. If we can't trust her not to urinate on soft things, we won't be able to keep her. At the same time, a cat of her age with known health (and/or behavior) problems isn't exactly adoptable.

Damnit.

Comments

[taldragon]

that is _definitely_ take her to the vet time - it may be thyroid, it may be UTI it may be just new-people-arg but still: get her checked out ASAP to rule out any medical issues.

otherwise, depending on how old she is/her general health, it might be best to ... let her go :(

[403]

Yah. Vet's not open on Sunday, though. :(

She wasn't doing this when we moved in. It seems to have started around the end of November.

[shinsetsu]

Has she been checked for diabetes? Her symptoms remind me of that in some ways.

And sometimes urinary infections can cause blockages within hours, so it's not always wise to wait.