My cat has cystitis and nothing is helping her. She is 15 years old, do I need to put her down?
She has been treated for a long time, and is distroying my house. I don't want to put her down, but I don't want to be unfair to her.
If she is in REAL pain yes. But if she's just acting weird no.
If she is in REAL pain yes. But if she's just acting weird no.
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i would put her down it may be hard but it's harder to see her suffer
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you can put her down and get her creamated for about 150
good luck
i got my dog creamated
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If shes in pain, and its really bad to the house, i'd put her down. It may be hard but we recently had to put one of our cats down for almost the same reason last summer, she was 17 at time so you know how hard it was to say goodbye but if its painful and causing really bad quality of life issues to her, then put her down, if its not then don't.
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I would wonder if at 15years old with recurrant chronic cystitis your cat may not have another underlying health issue like diabetes or bladder stones. You and your vet may already considered / explored this.
If she has a poor quality of life, discuss euthanasia with your vet.
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Assuming you have explored all possible options for treating your cat, the best person to ask would be your veterinarian. He or she will be able to gauge the amount of pain your cat is likely to be suffering, given the progression of the symptoms.
The choice is still up to you, but a good veterinarian would be able to honestly answer the question, 'If it were your pet, what would you do?'.
Good luck.
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Vitalzym and colloidal silver might help. It's a hard call to see your animal suffering, and cat pee everywhere is a drag.
They make an enzyme cleaner called "just for cats" by nature's miracle, that might help with the messes…
Also, try a raw diet. A natural diet can work wonders for animals. Raw meat, mixed with ground veggies, wet and warm, might help her get better, too.
You can research this on the internet , here's one link:
http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/sampleraw.htm
Good luck, having a sick pet is very hard to deal with as they can't tell us how they're feeling…
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Hey, im 12, My cat had cylists and was 17 he was suffering so bad that i said to my mum tht im gunna have him put down cause i couldent stand seeing him how he was it cost £50 i felt so guilty for his loss i kept thinking it was my fault. anyway back to you question
i think it would be best to have her put to sleep easier said than done but if its in pain then\suffering then its the best thing for her
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Hi
Have you tried switching her to wet food? The system needs water and dry food is depleting that and may be the cause of the problem in the first place.
scroll down this a bit
http://www.catinfo.org/#Common_Feline_Health_Problems_and_Their_Ties_to_Diet_
Nutrition since there are so many bad things out there is very important to your cat’s health
Contrary to what you may have heard; dry foods are not a great thing to feed a cat.
Please read the label on what you are feeding? What are the ingredients? Do you know what they mean? Is the first ingredient a muscle meat like chicken or meal or other things?
http://www.catinfo.org/#Learn_How_To_Rea...
Dry foods are the number 1 cause of diabetes in cats as well as being a huge contributing factor to kidney disease, obesity, crystals, u.t.i’s and a host of other problems. Food allergies are very common when feeding dry foods. Rashes, scabs behind the tail and on the chin are all symptoms
The problems associated with Dry food is that they are loaded with carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process them. Also, Most of the moisture a cat needs is suppose to be in the food but in
Dry, 95% of it is zapped out of dry foods in the processing. Another thing, most use horrible ingredients and don't use a muscle meat as the primary ingredient and use vegetable based protein versus animal. Not good for an animal that has to eat meat to survive.
You want to pick a canned food w/o gravy (gravy=carbs) that uses a muscle meat as the first ingredient and doesn't have corn at least in the first 3 ingredients if at all. Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. The optimum food to feed cats has no grains whatsoever, cats have no use for them and many have trouble processing them as well as the carbs. IBD is another disease that is rapidly becoming common amoung cats because of the inappropriate diets being fed.
Also, dry food is not proven to be better for teeth. Does a hard pretzel clean your teeth or do pieces of it get stuck? http://www.felinefuture.com/nutrition/bp...
Please read about cat nutrition.
http://www.newdestiny.us/nutritionbasics...
http://maxshouse.com/feline_nutrition.ht…
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As a fellow cat lover, it is hard to put a cat you have loved for a while down. If she is in pain it may be best IF your vets cannot do anything about it. If they can you might need to have that done to her, but it might be hard on your wallet. But if you love your cat as much as I love mine, you will see that she gets better.
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isnt this for the vet to decide?
sorry to hear that!=(
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My female cat has this and it was remedied by changing her diet to mostly wet food and she takes a cystaid tablet every day. If your cat seems in constant pain, it would seem kind to put her out of her misery especially as she is 15 years old. What did the vet say?
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Euthanasia is an option but if your cat is eating and drinking, peeing and pooping I would ask the vet about pain medication to relieve the discomfort associated with cystitis first.
Cosequin for cats has been shown to help cats with flutds (feline lower urinary tract disease) which your cat obviously is suffering from.
DAP infusers release pheromones into the air that relieve stress in cats.
Stress has been associated with causing flare ups of cystitis.
Amitryptiline has helped many cats with flutds because it has anti inflammatory properties and anti histamine effects.
Buprenex is an opioid that can be given orally for pain. It is much safer than NSAIDs and can be used to treat reoccurrent flare ups of cystitis.
Buprenex is not very expensive and is easy to administer.
Ask your vet about pain relief before putting your pet down.
I have seen many cats do well with buprenex and cosequin at various stages in life.
Cats can live long lives with our help.
If the cats kidney values are normal and she does not have a concurrent illness try pain relief for 7 days.
This will at least allow her last days to be less painful.
I wish you and your cat the best during a difficult time.
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I have had the same problem and we started feeding her raw turkey. It seems to help.
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