Cripple Kitten - Updates 16November2007

Today is one of those 'difficulty' days. Alera urinated a lot since afternoon and it is still going on. I have changed 3 diapers in a row within half an hour. The belly just full of urine. He usually drink lots of water everyday but he doesn't urinate everyday though like the rest. He is not feeling very well and moody.

Sometimes he would hold the urine until a day or two then would let it out little by little. But today he seemed to let out A LOT. I brought him to vet after that and it was getting worst, he urinated with blood. The following is what the vet has told me. 1. Lower urinary tract infection
2. Bladder distension due to cystitis
3. Hematuria-urine with blood.

The vet performed some scanning process on Alera and according to him the kidneys are alright. It is just the bladder contain lots of urine ( dirty urine ). He has given Alera a shot of antibiotic and some pain killer. He also recommended low ph food for Alera and asked me not to feed him with current food that I have at home. The low ph food is from Ekanuba. Alera is not eating and lost his appetite and he just hide himself at the corner of the cage.

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• cripple
• kitten
• penang
• malaysia
• urinary
• problem
• track
• bladder
• distention
• hematuria

[Kingbowserjr621]

give us updates of baby alera how is he doing

[ngothyeaun]

please check the updates above.

he is on livecam

[ngothyeaun]

Updates 18 Nov :

You can see Alera's recorded videos at

ustream(dot)tv(slash)ngothyeau­n

or live cam below :

ustream(dot)tv(slash)channel(s­lash)living-days-livecam

[ualuuanie]

Think about it right now its suffering maybe its better off put to sleep to end its suffering? I am not being cruel or what but don't you think its more cruel to prolong its suffering day by day?

[ngothyeaun]

mm...I have no comment for you. I just want to say, 'Give life a chance'.

But will you?

[ualuuanie]

I am all for giving life a chance. I was so against the 10yr life span of a dog when I was in the army ( upon 10yrs put to sleep ). But to prolong a life and have it suffer all the time?

[ngothyeaun]

How do you define suffering?

He is just not feeling well and the vet has seen WORST case than this and the kitty walks healthy the following months.

Putting down an animals is just an excuse and for men convenience sake.

But I doubt you will get that too. No body and no 'living creature' want to die but I think you still won't get it.

[lialiatah]

I agree. I hope Alera gets better.

[zabulenka]

I hope Alera is going better soon. I wish him & you all the best!!!!

[cvgf08]

was that blood?:(

[Morrisseys7thFriend]

Does it hurt him to go to the bathroom? Is that why he holds it?

[Shadechidna]

Sounds to me like an infection of some kind...I hope he gets well D:

[RYEUD]

i hope alera gets better D:

[pinkfox253]

he's come so far from that little kitten we've all watched.

[capnquack]

That cat doesn't suffer. You have to look at his other videos - it acts like a happy normal cat most of the time - he does seem to have a few more difficulties than most (can't scratch himself, so he chews his itches, bladder issues) but the cat acts very much like a cat most of the time. When cats are suffering they do not act normally.

[sachathecat]

Why don't you learn to express Alera's bladder manually? When my cat was paralyzed briefly we did this several times a day. Otherwise he was prone to infections with blood in the urine as well. There's a demonstration on how to do this here:

handicappedpets (dot) com (slash) Articles (slash) express

[shadoe185]

Poor baby. My cat had the same. Took a while to clear up. Changed from dry to wet pouch food and it has not come back. Will say a prayer for Alera.