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On May 11th, My beautiful 8 years old cat, Boots, wasn't acting like himself. Despite being neutered for years, he started spraying around the house and showing difficulty urinating. For the next few hours he continued to go to the litter box with increasing agitation. At that point we could clearly see something was wrong.
We took him to the vet and they diagnosed him with FUS (Feline Uroligical Syndrome). In FUS, sharp crystals fall out of solution in the cat's urine while it is still in the bladder. These crystals irritate the lining of the cat's lower urinary tract. When they mix with debris, sloughed from the bladder lining, they can prevent cats from urinating.
He told us it was pretty common in cats but is only fatal in males.
The first step was to keep him over night and put him on anti-inflammatories, hoping he'd urinate. Sadly, things didnt turn out that way and he had to stay there for a week before they were able to send him home on May 17th, after he had urinated twice in the litter box at the vets. But this is after they had to do a mini surgery of putting him under aneasthesia and outting in a catheter and them expressing his bladder multiple times.
*Giving him some scritches at the vet*
By this time of just getting him home had raked in about 1236.00 of vet bills. I had to pay 30% percent of that just to get him home. After he came to from the pain meds they had gotten him he tried to use the bathroom and again was having problems. So we took him back up there first thing the next morning.
At this point they told us they were going to keep him for an additional 3 days and put another catheter in him the entire time.
At this point our options seem bleak, but there is a surgery that could help get him well. Its called a PU (Perineal Urethrostomy). Basically they'd do a surgery to cut off the tip of Boot's penis to help him urinate because the urethra's openning would be larger.
The surgery will cost us about 2000 dollars more on top of what we owe the vet.
I thank you if you took the time to read this, Boots means the absolute world to me and I would pawn everything I own for him. I watched him be born in my mothers bedroom and he's been by my side for the last 8 years.
Every bit helps.
**Im even offering to those who Donate $50+ a 8 x 11 animal protrait of their choosing.
We took him to the vet and they diagnosed him with FUS (Feline Uroligical Syndrome). In FUS, sharp crystals fall out of solution in the cat's urine while it is still in the bladder. These crystals irritate the lining of the cat's lower urinary tract. When they mix with debris, sloughed from the bladder lining, they can prevent cats from urinating.
He told us it was pretty common in cats but is only fatal in males.
The first step was to keep him over night and put him on anti-inflammatories, hoping he'd urinate. Sadly, things didnt turn out that way and he had to stay there for a week before they were able to send him home on May 17th, after he had urinated twice in the litter box at the vets. But this is after they had to do a mini surgery of putting him under aneasthesia and outting in a catheter and them expressing his bladder multiple times.
*Giving him some scritches at the vet*
By this time of just getting him home had raked in about 1236.00 of vet bills. I had to pay 30% percent of that just to get him home. After he came to from the pain meds they had gotten him he tried to use the bathroom and again was having problems. So we took him back up there first thing the next morning.
At this point they told us they were going to keep him for an additional 3 days and put another catheter in him the entire time.
At this point our options seem bleak, but there is a surgery that could help get him well. Its called a PU (Perineal Urethrostomy). Basically they'd do a surgery to cut off the tip of Boot's penis to help him urinate because the urethra's openning would be larger.
The surgery will cost us about 2000 dollars more on top of what we owe the vet.
I thank you if you took the time to read this, Boots means the absolute world to me and I would pawn everything I own for him. I watched him be born in my mothers bedroom and he's been by my side for the last 8 years.
Every bit helps.
**Im even offering to those who Donate $50+ a 8 x 11 animal protrait of their choosing.
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Megan Lemaster
Organizer
Chickasha, OK
Amy Lemaster
Beneficiary
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