My boy cat (who is the absolute apple of my eye and furry soulmate) has been very ill for the past week.
He had a UTI which was treated but then became a blocked urethra.
Last week he was taken into the vets for 3 days and catheterised and put on a drip. He came home at 6pm on Friday looking still quite poorly, by 11am Saturday we were rushing him back to the vets as he seemed more and more ill. Didn't want to move very much, not eating and his 3rd eyelids were almost half closed.
On Saturday morning the vet was starting to talk about putting him to sleep (we were heartbroken) however things seem more positive now.
His bloods have shown his kidney function has massively improved - one marker is normal and the other is only slightly raised.
The vet said the catheter went in much easier this time so may not be a blockage this time but spasms from previously having a catheter in.
Since they started him on antibiotics on Saturday he has become more perky, they have found out he has anaemia probably a result of the underlying UTI so are treating that. He still hasn't eaten yet but hoping he will today.
He is only 5 years old.
I made the mistake of consulting Google and came across a page which just had lots of people from the US on it who had all lost their cats this way.
Does anyone have any experience of a younger cat going through this?
Did yours recover or did you have to PTS? 
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Boy cat has a blocked urethra...any experience?
wheresmymojo · 21/06/2021 11:36
My boy had this, he was 7, noticed he'd been washing his bits quite frequently and using the tray more often.
Dd rang me at work to say he won't stop crying, when I got home it was obvious a vet was needed so popped him up and they said he was completely blocked and that he needed an op to help him.
He was at the vets for 3 days although our vets at the time used an out of hours vet 40 minutes away so I had to transfer him each morning and night, catheter and all! The 2nd night I was so upset as I thought he'd passed away during the trip I missed the junction on the motorway! Horrible times.
He did take a bit longer than he should to get his bloods back to normal but he's absolutely fine now fingers crossed.
I do try to give him more wet food but I have 3 cats and one will only eat dry so thats always down, plenty of water bowls and a fountain to encourage drinking and I give him a bladder supplement every other day too.
Not had a problem since but he did cost over £2000 in vets bills, thankfully covered by insurance!
He's 9 now I just dread the cost of insurance in the future 
He has peed several times since he came home, including all over me soaking me to the point I've had to change my underwear 
It's good job I love him!
He's also chomped his way through a lot of tuna (with added water), the mirtazapine (sp?) has definitely done the trick as an appetite stimulant...
I don't think I've ever been so excited about a cat having a wee as the first one he did on the way home!
Our gorgeous rescue boy had this three times. He's now no longer with us but not because of that. It never recurred and he was a much fitter cat afterwards, probably because of changing his food.
The first and second times were so close together they were basically the same occasion. The third time it happened he had a week in the vet's and they talked about a penis removal. He was so uncomfortable.
We changed his food, brought his litter tray inside and moved his water away and it never reoccurred. We think the stress of another cat in the garden was what had kicked it off. He was happy and had years more fun with us.
The best of luck to you and your boy 
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