And we see them in all stages of the disease, from the early ones who just seem a little painful and have a big, hard bladder on to the nearly dead ones that are beyond saving in many cases. At the ERs I have worked in, we usually saw about two to three cats per week who couldn’t pee. Known in veterinary parlance as a ‘blocked cat’ or ‘blocked tom,’ this poorly understood disorder is seen with alarming frequency in vet hospitals and ERs.
One of the most common ways that happens is when a cat’s urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder to the litter box) gets blocked. If the flow of pee stops, those waste products build up and start pickling the works, like sugar in a car’s gas tank. True, it does have the waste products of metabolism in it, which your body definitely needs to get rid of.Īnd that’s where some of the problems begin. I’m not advocating doing anything crazy with it (except maybe writing your name in the snow), but it’s not the heinous grody stuff that many third graders make it out to be. And pee is (usually) sterile – unless you have a urinary tract infection (UTI) pee is pure enough that you could clean your windows with it. Ditto with lots of other substances, like water, that need to be regulated. Just ate a super-sized order of fries with an ocean’s worth of sodium in it? Here come the kidneys to say ‘hold the salt’ and dump the unwanted excess into the urine. Your body, and more specifically, your kidneys, sense and adjust the composition of your bodily fluids and dump the excess into the urine. Stuff you can’t live without in many cases – things like potassium and sodium and water. It actually has lots of good stuff in it.
So when something happens to stem the flow of pee, trouble ensues - and fast.
Eating, you can hold off for a few days, pooping is optional (for a while anyway), but peeing is right up there with breathing on the list of things you just gotta do each and every day. It's a natural fact that every mammal has to pee.
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