-> I may be openly displaying some ignorance here, this is my word, not
-> the vet's.  I have been trying to look it up and I am having no luck.
-> (Blush) A red flag should have gone off when my spell checker did not
-> know it. (I just told it to ignore it) I may be displaying my age
-> here, but this is what I remember my Mother calling a bladder
-> infection when I was a child. What he has is a *bad*  urinary tract
-> infection, more of a blockage (maybe  kidney stones?). He got to the
-> point where he wasn't putting out anything,his bladder was hard as a
-> rock and about the size of a golf ball. At first the pee was bright
-> red and then got down to nothing. Twice. The vet kept him  about a
-> week the last time and kept him on an IV. Both his poor forepaws are
-> shaven. On a solid black kitty this is bad. He is doing a lot
-> better, but very thin because he hates that expensive food.
That's not cistitis - it's Feline Urinary Syndrome (FUS) and
it really endangers the life of the cat! Your cat needs to
eat a diet that's low in ash once the infection clears up.
Ask your vet about FUS - it could save your cat's life!
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