Need Advice Quickly - Zeus Has A Urinary Blockage, please send prayers Options

[Zita'sMom]

My thread is at Goodbye Rosie Goodbye Family, but I really need all your prayers.

My last 5 year old cat Zeus cat threw up late last night and wasn't purring so I knew he wasn't feeling well. He didn't eat this morning so I phoned the vet. He was acting totally normal until late last night.

He has a urinary blockage and is undergoing surgery. He is 5 years old. I've had a lot of losses, and I really need him to pull through this. The vet said that he may have kidney damage. He appeared really healthy until this.

Unfortunately it's a long weekend and they need me to decide whether to bring him home, to leave him at a different vet's office, one I've never been to, or take him to another city for 24 hour hospitalization. The local vet's office does not have 24 hour surveillance, and I'm tempted to bring him home. But on the other hand, I'm not sure about what complications there could be - does anyone have advice on this?

Need some advice quickly...

thanks

Jan.

[Nemo's Mommy]

Well, and I got slightly off the subject there with CRD, but it is related, as it relates to the kidneys.

But back to UTD-

She also says the problem is not, and has never been, the level of magnesium in the diet of UTI cats. The problem is the extremely low-moisture, alkaline-urine-producing, high-processed-carbohydrate formulas of dry cat foods.

She says that every week she sees new patients that been on "prescription diets" for this problem, without success. And she says that even worse, the prescription diets caused them to develop a different type of crystal, because their urine had become too acid. For these cats, she says the "cure" was as devastating as the original disease.

She also talks about the scientists and how they failed to consider the natural prey of cats contains significant magnesium, but is composed of entirely different types of ingredients. But the problem here really is dry food. Dry food with high cereal and low moisture, cause UTI. And she says that cats eating meat-based wet foods simply do not develop UTI.

I hope that helps~
NM