Feline Idiopathic Cystitis (FLUTD)
The most common cause of lower urinary tract signs in cats — straining, blood and frequent toileting, often stress-related. A cat unable to pass urine is an emergency.
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Water, Diet and Your Cat's Bladder: Increasing Intake and When a Urinary Diet Helps
Cats treat "get more water into them" with the contempt they reserve for most of our ideas. They drink when they feel like it, ignore the lovely new bowl, and leave you wondering whether this "drink more water" business...
Managing FIC with MEMO: The Environment Changes That Actually Work
"Reduce your cat's stress" and "enrich the environment" are the two instructions vets hand out most often for feline idiopathic cystitis (FIC), and they're also the two that make the least sense at home. She's a house...
Feline Idiopathic Cystitis: Why Stress Gives Your Cat a Sore Bladder
A cat that keeps getting "urine infections" the antibiotics never quite fix is one of the odder problems we see, because the usual logic doesn't apply. There is no infection to treat. The vet starts talking about...
Calming Aids, Pheromones and When Medication Has a Role
By the time most owners go looking for a calming product, they've already done the hard, unglamorous work. The litter trays are spread around the house, there's a water fountain, you've carved out hiding places, and...
Breaking the Cycle: Stress, Multi-Cat Tension and Preventing the Next Flare
A calm spell with feline idiopathic cystitis (FIC) can end without warning. You've had the diagnosis, you've fixed the litter trays, you've got more water into your cat, and for weeks things hold steady. Then a flare...
The FIC Flare: Pain Relief, the First 48 Hours, and Watching for a Block
A flare tends to look the same each time. Your cat is in and out of the litter tray, squatting and straining, maybe leaving a pink-tinged spot on the floor, maybe weeing just outside the tray, maybe crying. For a cat...
Getting the Diagnosis: Why FIC Is What's Left When Everything Else Is Ruled Out
A lot of FIC stories share the same confusing moment. The vet runs the tests, comes back with "good news, nothing grew, no stones", and then in the same breath calls it idiopathic cystitis. If nothing showed up, how is...
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