![]() It probably wasn't the dry food anyway with him having a mixed diet Cat, boys are just prone to UTI's anyway because thier waterworks are so small, just him licking himself could get a few germs until his tube and bring one on, usually they get crystals blocking them when it's caused by the food. There are some dry foods which are ok for them as part of a mixed diet, Burns is one and my boy was fine on it for years, stupidly I changed his food 6 months before his blockage, it was another dry food recommended for cats prone to UTI's but obviously wasn't as good as the Burns. ![]() These things come on very quickly and you did the best thing for him by getting him to the vet as quickly as you did. My boy has been fine since thankfully, we've been adding warm water to all of his meals, wet and the odd bit of dry he's been having to keep alot of fluids going through him. There is a risk that is can happen again within the three weeks afterwards but if they get through this time it's alot less likely to happen again. He was very poorly and spent 3 days at the vets with a catheter, he came home with alot of meds, think there was about 7 in all inc Diazapam and Cystophan to reduce stress, another to keep his bladder relaxed, an antibiotic, another to keep his wee acidic to help prevent another blockage etc, he was on these for 2 weeks and now has to stay on the Cystophan for life (we will be buying this from Amazon instead of the vets). His last UTI was Christmas 2008 and the blockage came from nowhere, the vet thinks it may have been brought on by stress as I found a local Tom in our kitchen twice in the week before he became ill. One of my boys had this last month and he was already on special food as he was prone to UTI's. Oh hun, you haven't let him down, this is very very common in male cats as thier wee tube is so small. ![]()
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