Homeless Cat -- Now Spotacus' Legacy
On 18 Dec, a very large cat showed up at our house. It was late and cold, and he looked in the door and made it clear he wanted inside. Well, since we have two cats already and he was a stranger, we...
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When baytril stopped my bunny from eating but didn't stop the UTI, he ended up on Lugol's iodine. And when Sputnik had a UTI on a weekend, I used the same thing.... it doesn't seem to be something that people talk about doing for cats or rabbits for UTIs specifically, but I have to say it worked in each instance and the side effects were less than the pharmacuticals. I'm all for going the traditional route when it works. When it doesn't, sometimes you have to think outside the box.
Sput just finished a course of clavamox because I decided to double check that it was a UTI before treating this time (happened on a Sunday instead of a Saturday night...). It's been okay, (in fact I think it may have cleared something somewhere up that we had no idea existed) but twice is enough. A little research indicates that holistic peeps find that d-mannose works well for maintenance on cats prone to UTIs, so she'll go on that shortly. Seeing my old, tiny cat pee blood is not okay.
Finding ways to up fluid intake is also a good idea (more wet food, wet food with water added.....many cats like "soup."
Sput just finished a course of clavamox because I decided to double check that it was a UTI before treating this time (happened on a Sunday instead of a Saturday night...). It's been okay, (in fact I think it may have cleared something somewhere up that we had no idea existed) but twice is enough. A little research indicates that holistic peeps find that d-mannose works well for maintenance on cats prone to UTIs, so she'll go on that shortly. Seeing my old, tiny cat pee blood is not okay.
Finding ways to up fluid intake is also a good idea (more wet food, wet food with water added.....many cats like "soup."
