What is the cause of cystitis in cats?
One of my cats has recently been diagnosed with cystitis. She's responding really well to the treatment, but was wondering if anyone knew the likely cause of the illness?
She is two years old, happy and otherwise very health.
I know the cause of cystitis in guys, and it ain't pretty. I think as long as you keep your pussy clean, it shouldn't come back.
My son's cat is also suffering with cystitis at the moment. The vet said that it is caused by stress. They bought a kitten recently and think that it may be this change that it making the older cat stressed.
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A bacterial infections, bladder stones, viral infection cancer or what we called tumours, some abnormalities in anatomy, physical injury and blockage at the urethra, are the most common causes of Cystitis
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http://www.ivet.co.uk/
DRY FOOD!!!!!
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_Read_a_Pet_Food_Ingredient_Label
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Perhach/PetFood/InterpretingLabels.htm
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. Male cats are especially prone to blockages
from dry food. 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 grains and carbohydrates which many cats (carnivores) cannot process. ( Have a fat cat?)
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.
http://www.catinfo.org/#My_Cat_is_Doing_Just_Fine_on_Dry_Food
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.
THE BEST CAT FOODS CONTAIN NO GRAINS NO BYPRODUCTS
Cats are meat eaters not cereal or rice eaters
Fancy feast is a middle grade food with 9lives, friskies whiskas lower grade canned and wellness and merrick upper grade human quality foods. I would rather feed a middle grade canned food then the top of the line dry food.
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/bpo_ch4a.php
Please read about cat nutrition.
http://www.catinfo.org/
http://www.catinfo.org/feline_obesity.htm
http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring04/Perhach/PetFood/Vets.htm
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I know the cause of cystitis in guys, and it ain't pretty. I think as long as you keep your pussy clean, it shouldn't come back.
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