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From: wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard)
Newsgroups: net.pets
Subject: Re: urinating on rug-- cat
Message-ID: <789@x.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 02:25:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 02:25:53 1985
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References: <59@drutx.UUCP> <167@circadia.UUCP>
Reply-To: wjr@x.UUCP (STella Calvert)
Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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Keywords: formerly housebroken cat falls to urinary tract infection
Summary: Take cats and urine sample to vet, soonest

<urinary tract infections>  C'mon line eater!

Note:  This is STella Calvert, a guest on this account.

I am not answering this by mail, because I'm sick of cats being murdered for
being ill!

In article <167@circadia.UUCP> dave@circadia.UUCP (David Messer) writes:
>We have seven cats, all spayed or neutered, but recently, for no
>apparent reason, two of the males began urinating on the rug.  Any
>suggestions?  (I don't think getting another cat is the answer :-)
>
>Dave Messer   ...ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!circadia!dave

When a mature housebroken cat starts "sinning" with no apparent cause, get a
urine sample, and take it and the cat to the vet.  There are lots of things
that could be wrong, but a bladder infection is most likely.

How do you get a sample?  Well, you could follow the cat around with a paper
cup until you get lucky, but _I_ would shut it in a varikennel with lots of
water and no kittybox.  When you see that you have a sample, pour it off into
a container, rinse out the kennel, apologize to the cat, and call your vet.

And yes, it's possible that both cats have the same problem.

				STella Calvert
				(guest on ...!decvax!frog!wjr)

		Every man and every woman is a star.