![]() Try providing a water fountain or, if all else fails, soaking their biscuits in water might increase their water intake a little bit. Try different dishes / receptacles and try putting them in different places. However, cats can be particular about where they drink, so you may need to be quite cunning. Is there anything else we can do to protect a cat’s bladder? The good news is that cats often do survive, but I can’t stress enough how important it is to act. You’re not painting a very positive picture hereĪre you on your way to the vets? It really is very serious. This can cause a rapid heart-rate and other complications, which are also extremely serious and can be fatal if not treated. What makes it worse is that the kidneys control the potassium levels in the blood, and if the kidneys are backed up with urine, the potassium levels in the blood will rise. If your cat is blocked, further action will be needed. This case really should be seen immediately. Oh no! How long have I got? Can this wait for my favourite vet tomorrow morning? Meanwhile, as you can imagine, all of this is excruciatingly painful for the cat. If the back-up gets as far as the kidneys, the kidneys can become damaged and can even fail. Once the bladder is as full as it can get, urine starts to back up the ureters to the kidneys. The pain can often cause the urethra to close up tighter it’s a vicious cycle. ![]() ![]() If urine keeps flowing in but cannot leave through the urethra, the bladder becomes bigger, thickened, and painful. The bladder is like a small balloon with two small inflow pipes (ureters), one from each kidney. In any event, it acts like a blocked pipe urine cannot leave the bladder. ![]() It can also get blocked by little stones, or rarely by a small tumour. It’s a long tube, and a thin one, and can spasm (close up, tightly) with pain or stress. That’s the tube that takes urine from the bladder to the outside world (the tip of the penis). ![]()
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