Natural Remedies for Cat UTIs: Safe, Holistic Treatments

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Multiple Remedies
Posted by Carolyn (Perth, Western Australia, Australia) on 09/17/2012
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Hello, thank you to all the contributors to this website about this particular problem.

I went on holiday for two months leaving both of my male cats in a cattery. From the moment I picked them up from cattery and got home, my 'Fraidie' cat started spending huge amounts of time on the kitty litter and I took him straight away to the vet. He was diagnosed with UTI brought on by the stress of going to cattery and being away from home. Two sets of anti-inflamatories later (which worked great for about 4 days then back to blood in the urine and him squatting everywhere and being in pain and unhappy) and the third time he got dehydrated and went floppy and I raced him to vet and $600 later for a day at the vet, blood test, drip, medicine etc, she just gave him painkillers and sent him home. So I have spent over $1000 US in the last 8 weeks.

At this time I found this site and I was so grateful. It's been almost 3 weeks and he is back to normal, healthy with no further problems.

What I did:

- I changed his water to filtered water.
- I fee him normal wet food BUT with chicken mince (which holds a lot of water in it) mixed in.
- Only feed hard biscuits as a treat and they are special ones for UTI.
- Each morning I make up a small mixture of 1/4 tsp ACVinegar with 2 tsp of water. I give him about a tea spoon of it in a mouth syringe and then mix the rest in with the chicken wet food mixuture.
- ALSO mixed in wet food once a day is 250mg crushed vitamin c and 250 mg crushed cranberry tablets.
- And he is looking wonderful and happy with no further problems.
- I will stop giving him some by mouth in the next week and just put a little bit of that ACV and water mixure in his food.

If I get a recurrence, I will up the mixture again. I hope you also have some success with this as it was very traumatic to see my little guy in so much pain.