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Cat health issue
I am having some health problems with my male cat, Skylar. He is about 5 years old. He had a UTI and I took him to the vet last week. Been giving him his antibiotic, and the vet has said his urine came back negative for anything. I notice though he still uses the litter box frequently, and has been "straining" a lot (once during the week blood came out). I have been doing a lot of research online, even joined catsite.com and this apparently is "common" and takes awhile for the antibiotic to go through his system. Anyways, I am still really nervous. I called the vet again on Friday, he couldn't come to the phone however. The receptionist suggested I bring him in for an ultrasound tommorrow. I don't know if I want to do this just yet, especially (and not to sound uncaring) because it will cost me $350. The receptionist was like "I talked to the vet and he may have a stone in his bladder". The vet has seen him twice already and said he doesn't have a stone because he would have felt it. I am getting frustrated though, especially having to go through "the receptionist" all of the time. I am partially just venting, and partially asking for advice for those of you who have cats and may have gone through this experience. Most likely I will just bring him in for a recheck tommorrow night though. I don't have insurance for him, and if he does have something seriously wrong with him, the surgery will be over $1000. I should post this in the thread about the NEGATIVES of having pets...........Plus, my boyfriend, my mom and many of my friends are just like "If he costs $1000 to get treated you should just put him to sleep, he is JUST A CAT!" That gets annoying to deal with too...........
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