I made a fairly lengthy topic about my CRF cat, Anastasia and her strange and to her harmful behavior when it comes to drinking water on the old forum and I got some wonderful advice but since she is a rather stubborn cat none of it worked for her
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Fortunately in the past few months she stopped behaving like that and started drinking water normally from the tap, kept herself hydrated and everything was fine..until some 4 dago when she started acting up again. This unfortunately now led to her dehydrating herself and yesterday she had what appeared to be a short siesta, I was studying for my finals when I heard two loud mews and found her collappsed in the bathroom with a trail of urine behind her. Naturally the vet was rather letharic, I didn't want to bad mouth my vet in the old topic but the truth is in my country, Macedonia, finding a good knowledgeable vet when it comes to cats and cat behavior seems to be a rather difficult task to say the least.
He took some blood for her, said the results from the bloodwork would be in today and he wasn't very eager to offer any advice, much less offer to administer sub-q fluids and the like, in fact he outright refused saying it would just cause more harm and wouldn't do much for her, even though she was dehydrated to heck and back.
The results came today and as expected she has anemia, which of course this vet says is untreatable despite me having read that it can be managed and my aunt who is a doctor(human doctor) also says it can be managed. Again, in all his usual rudness he didn't even offer any advice on how to manage her new condition or how to get her to drink water and everything.
He pretty much wrote the cat off much like he did in 2012 when she was diagnosed with CRF.
I took the results to a different vet, she was far nicer and far more talkative, she didn't offer much help when it came to the anemnia but she did say that instead of IV fluids/sub-q it's best to try and hydrate her orally, to buy electrolytes for kids and use those. This morning I read the same thing online so at least we were on the right track with this vet it seems.
She said the anemia at this point isn't as big an issue but on Monday or Tuesday if the cat perks up to bring her in and she would give her B-12 vitamin shots to help with the anemia.
She told me to give her 200ml electrolytes today which seemed a bit excessive to me but what the heck she is the doctor, online I read to administer them in 2-4ml doses every hour...but without passing the blame on anyone she ended up taking in 70ml in 3 hours....bad move, but that's what happens when my mom and girlfriend panic and don't listen to what I'm telling them.
She did perk up, she did start being very alert, started walking around, went to eat on her own...but she also peed twice on this one bed we don't use and she peed without even realizing it, she has never, in her entire 7 year life made a mistake like this, if her pee so much as slips outside of the litterbox, it happens sometimes as she doesn't always get in properly she gets upset and demands it's cleaned up immediately, yet now she didn't even notice there was pee under her.
I called my aunt and grandparents, they're actually knowledgeable doctors who constantly read and keep themselves up to date on everything and she said there probably is no reason for concern and she might have just taken in more water than she could handle, however she did warn me it might cause permanent damage in the long run if it keeps happening.
Now my cat seems much better than she was yesterday, she went to eat on her own, went to pee in the bathroom and all, but I don't think we're out of the woods just yet.
She is lying on my bed now looking around, fairly alert...hope she doesn't do her business there.
Any help or advice would be appreciated