The urinating on the bed would have been one sign, particularly if she's never done that before. Also, the "squatting in unusual places" pertains to beds, furniture, sinks, etc.
She has done that before, but it's been ages since she has. Her favorite place to pee (non litter box) was the couch but we've blocked that from her and she's always used the litter box since then. Had it not been for me noticing the crystals we might not have taken her in at all
Resting or napping more than usual, or lethargy might have been signs as well.
Stress is a precursor to reoccuring UTI's, so do everything you can to keep stress reduced at all times for all of the cats.
I'm assuming they catheterized her and were able to flush most of the crystals out - however, sometimes there are crystals too large to pass on their own, therefore the veterinary diet to help dissolve them. Sometimes surgery is necessary to remove them.
And she's a pretty lazy cat so I guess neither one of us really thought much of it to see her lying around.
We took her to the regular vet today. At first the vet thought it WAS stress related, but he did an xray and found stones in her bladder
He said that we'd have to keep her on a special diet (S/O Canned food) so that she can dissolve them and she might pass some on her own.
Good news is the infection is clearing up but he said to keep her on the antibiotics until she runs out. They also gave us two weeks worth of pain killers for her. (Buprenex) They also gave us Feline-Dasuquin because he said that could help the swelling go down.
The last thing they gave us was something called Anti-Icky-Poo which is a something that can be used to get the urine smell out of areas. I'm really glad they gave this to us because I've been using other cleaners and none of them did the trick.
I just came home from an errand a bit ago and it was the first time I came home in a few days that the place didn't smell like urine.
We also got a third litter box from my mom just in case. Now we have three.
This was by far the most expensive trip to the vet that I've ever had to deal with so I want to be sure to prevent anything like this in the future. As expensive as it was, this was the first day that I really noticed improvement in her so if that's how much it costs to keep Lucy happy and healthy, then so be it. Thank goodness for emergency credit cards though.
She has not urinated anywhere but the litter box since last night and, she's urinating more than just a few drops and I didn't see any blood in the urine. (Though I only watched her go in the litter box so maybe it was hard to see) So I believe she's on the mend.
They did say to call back if there was no improvement in three days but I think she'll be okay now. We're supposed to go back in a month for another check up. But that's where we're at now.
