Its more common than I thought. The vet said it effects 1/10 male cats, and more and more it seems to be a issue these days. Our vet says its the cat food everyone gets these days doesnt help.
And I know the person wasn’t calling me out directly, I didn’t make a single comment until I read that one and decided to reply. I was more pointing out how this does happen and I would say is something to be concerned about, and how I see that same concern in a few other comments. Those are warnings of experience, and I wouldnt of known that if I haven’t gone through the same thing.
Listen man I just don’t want someone to feel like I did. We had to drive 2 hours at mid night to the nearest emergency vet and they had to keep him there for two days. I had to do sidejobs every weekend to pay off the bill. Thankfully they didn’t start charging interest until maybe a year after and we got it payed off before that no problem.
What makes it worse is cats dont show pain. My wife did not seemed concerned what so ever that he wouldnt get out of bed for the whole day, and was really dismissive when I pointed out he acts like he doesnt want to sit down or lay down. It wasn’t until I googled the symptoms said its deadly before she decided maybe it was serious. I just dont think most people “get” cats, or are expecting them to communicate to you like a dog.
You know another big thing I learned that a lot of people probably don’t know is that a lot of cats just like flat out…don’t drink water for some reason? Most of us are used to any given animal drinking water when thirsty. But a lot of cats just like… don’t. I guess a wet food diet helps a lot with this because it’s got water in it. Sure it’s a little bit more hassle and expense over dry food, but not that much. Def gonna keep my guy on wet food for the rest of his life.
So us humans often make the mistake of feeding our cats water right next to their food bowls. Cats don’t like that; because carnivore, they don’t trust water sources near where they eat as rotting animal carcasses can poison water.
They also prefer moving water to a stagnant puddle, so fountains or running faucets are often preferred to bowls.
My cat Izzy wants to drink from the bathtub faucet, I turn it on for her a couple times a day.
Its more common than I thought. The vet said it effects 1/10 male cats, and more and more it seems to be a issue these days. Our vet says its the cat food everyone gets these days doesnt help.
And I know the person wasn’t calling me out directly, I didn’t make a single comment until I read that one and decided to reply. I was more pointing out how this does happen and I would say is something to be concerned about, and how I see that same concern in a few other comments. Those are warnings of experience, and I wouldnt of known that if I haven’t gone through the same thing.
Listen man I just don’t want someone to feel like I did. We had to drive 2 hours at mid night to the nearest emergency vet and they had to keep him there for two days. I had to do sidejobs every weekend to pay off the bill. Thankfully they didn’t start charging interest until maybe a year after and we got it payed off before that no problem.
What makes it worse is cats dont show pain. My wife did not seemed concerned what so ever that he wouldnt get out of bed for the whole day, and was really dismissive when I pointed out he acts like he doesnt want to sit down or lay down. It wasn’t until I googled the symptoms said its deadly before she decided maybe it was serious. I just dont think most people “get” cats, or are expecting them to communicate to you like a dog.
You know another big thing I learned that a lot of people probably don’t know is that a lot of cats just like flat out…don’t drink water for some reason? Most of us are used to any given animal drinking water when thirsty. But a lot of cats just like… don’t. I guess a wet food diet helps a lot with this because it’s got water in it. Sure it’s a little bit more hassle and expense over dry food, but not that much. Def gonna keep my guy on wet food for the rest of his life.
So us humans often make the mistake of feeding our cats water right next to their food bowls. Cats don’t like that; because carnivore, they don’t trust water sources near where they eat as rotting animal carcasses can poison water.
They also prefer moving water to a stagnant puddle, so fountains or running faucets are often preferred to bowls.
My cat Izzy wants to drink from the bathtub faucet, I turn it on for her a couple times a day.
He always got wet food with free feeding dry food. But we started watering it down now days just to make sure.