Mark2spark
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Hi.
I don't know when enough is enough, I suppose I feel guilty that there doesn't appear to be anything other than 'the final solution' :_|
Our cat, well, this one, we've got two, is about 18 & a half years old, and has gradually, over the last few months, become more and more incontinent. Even more so in the last 3 months. Basically he now does wees and poos in the house, at random spots, so much so that you now have to have eyes in the back of your head to avoid treading in it.
Hard, constipated type of poo, small nuggets really.
From looking at other sites, he's obviously got rhumetism from old age, I understand that this can be part of the problem. But the wee's are happening from him just waking along, drip drip drip, he doesn't know he's doing it. When he goes to poo - sometimes it's in the garden and we observe him - he arches his back into what looks like a really painful position, and then as the motion starts, his back legs actually give way under him, so he ends up scraping his bum along the ground. A proper 'skid mark'
Is he in pain? Is it time to say goodbye? We decided to tolerate the house soiling for as long as possible but we've had enough now, can't be doing with poo on the kitchen floor and treading in it, - it also stinks the house out.
But other than this, he doesn't appear to be in any obvious, acute type of pain. He looks directly at you and miaows when we first come into the room, like he's trying to tell us something, but we obviously can't tell what.
Like I said, he's quite old, and has lost weight, and is skin and bone really compared to our other cat. No obvious lumps when you feel him over.
I'm not really prepared to embrace a costly medical treatment plan for a cat so old.
Opinions please. Thanks.
Mark.
I don't know when enough is enough, I suppose I feel guilty that there doesn't appear to be anything other than 'the final solution' :_|
Our cat, well, this one, we've got two, is about 18 & a half years old, and has gradually, over the last few months, become more and more incontinent. Even more so in the last 3 months. Basically he now does wees and poos in the house, at random spots, so much so that you now have to have eyes in the back of your head to avoid treading in it.
Hard, constipated type of poo, small nuggets really.
From looking at other sites, he's obviously got rhumetism from old age, I understand that this can be part of the problem. But the wee's are happening from him just waking along, drip drip drip, he doesn't know he's doing it. When he goes to poo - sometimes it's in the garden and we observe him - he arches his back into what looks like a really painful position, and then as the motion starts, his back legs actually give way under him, so he ends up scraping his bum along the ground. A proper 'skid mark'
Is he in pain? Is it time to say goodbye? We decided to tolerate the house soiling for as long as possible but we've had enough now, can't be doing with poo on the kitchen floor and treading in it, - it also stinks the house out.
But other than this, he doesn't appear to be in any obvious, acute type of pain. He looks directly at you and miaows when we first come into the room, like he's trying to tell us something, but we obviously can't tell what.
Like I said, he's quite old, and has lost weight, and is skin and bone really compared to our other cat. No obvious lumps when you feel him over.
I'm not really prepared to embrace a costly medical treatment plan for a cat so old.
Opinions please. Thanks.
Mark.