Cystitis Relief - Get help to cure cystitis » Why has my neutered male cat's order changed? http://www.cystitisrelief.com Information and help for cystitis sufferers Fri, 27 May 2011 11:24:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Why has my neutered male cat's order changed? http://www.cystitisrelief.com/male-uti-symptoms/why-has-my-neutered-male-cats-order-changed/ http://www.cystitisrelief.com/male-uti-symptoms/why-has-my-neutered-male-cats-order-changed/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:36:31 +0000 admin http://www.cystitisrelief.com/male-uti-symptoms/why-has-my-neutered-male-cats-order-changed My male (neutered) cat has hat a recent change in the order of his urine. It is so strong that you can smell it across 2 floors in my home.

No changes in his diet and he was neutered over 7 years ago. The change in the order just changed last week. I watched him for UTI symptoms and I have not seen anything out of the ordinary.

Any advice?

Hi Bethany…if your cats urine has become stronger and darker in colour it could be indicative of a lower urinary tract disorder (e.g struvite/oxalate crystals, kidneys, etc). Generally when the colour and odour changes means the urine pH has changed to be more alkaline rather than acidic. Alkaline urine pH is caused by dry food diets therefore by adding moisture to his diet such as canned food (like cranberry juice does for humans) will acidify the urine.

More on lower urinary tract disorders:

http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_feline_lower_urinary_tract_dis.html

Urine pH medical info:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3672831&dopt=Abstract

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