Condition journey
Urinary Health
Lower-urinary problems — the blocked-cat emergency, cystitis, stones and incontinence.
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Your urinary health care team
These are the practitioners this condition can call for, from your everyday vet to specialists and therapists. Enter your postcode to see who's near you at each step.
- Your vet (primary care)
Internal-medicine specialist ·Referral hospital
Emergency / out-of-hours vet
Understanding urinary health
Reading from PetsLikeMineFeline Idiopathic Cystitis (FLUTD)
- Feline Idiopathic Cystitis: Why Stress Gives Your Cat a Sore Bladder 10 min
- Managing FIC with MEMO: The Environment Changes That Actually Work 12 min
- Water, Diet and Your Cat's Bladder: Increasing Intake and When a Urinary Diet Helps 11 min
- Getting the Diagnosis: Why FIC Is What's Left When Everything Else Is Ruled Out 8 min
- The FIC Flare: Pain Relief, the First 48 Hours, and Watching for a Block 9 min
- Breaking the Cycle: Stress, Multi-Cat Tension and Preventing the Next Flare 8 min
- Calming Aids, Pheromones and When Medication Has a Role 10 min
Urethral Obstruction
- The Blocked Cat: The Emergency Every Owner of a Male Cat Must Recognise 12 min
- Will It Happen Again? Preventing a Re-block After Your Cat Comes Home 11 min
- What Happens at the Vet: Unblocking, the Catheter and the Hospital Stay 9 min
- PU Surgery (Perineal Urethrostomy): When It's the Right Call, and Life After 11 min
- Can Dogs Get Blocked Too? Urethral Obstruction in Male Dogs 9 min
Bladder Stones (Uroliths)
- Bladder Stones in Cats and Dogs: The Two Main Types, and Why the Difference Is Everything 11 min
- Dissolving Struvite Stones with Diet, and When Surgery Is Needed Instead 8 min
- Calcium Oxalate Stones: Prevention When You Can't Dissolve Them 9 min
- When a Stone Causes a Blockage: The Bridge to the Emergency 8 min
- Diet and Water for a Stone-Forming Pet: The Prevention Plan for Life 10 min
- The Other Stones: Urate, Cystine and the Breed and Liver Links 9 min
Urinary Incontinence
- My Spayed Dog Is Leaking Urine: Urethral Sphincter Incontinence Explained 10 min
- Treating Incontinence: The Medicines That Work, and What to Try When They Don't 10 min
- Is It Incontinence or Something Else? Ruling Out Infection, Stones and Behaviour 10 min
- Living With a Leaky Dog: Bedding, Skin Care and Night-Time Tips 9 min
More guides
- My Cat Is Straining in the Litter Tray: What's Going On, and What to Do 10 min
- Is This an Emergency? The Blocked-Cat Signs You Must Not Wait On 9 min
- Blood in Your Pet's Urine: What It Means and How Worried to Be 9 min
- "Is It a UTI?" Why Your Cat Probably Hasn't Got One (and Your Dog Might) 9 min
- How to Describe Urinary Signs to Your Vet, and How to Collect a Urine Sample 11 min
- Why Getting More Water in Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Pet's Bladder 9 min
- Urinary Tract Infections in Dogs: When Antibiotics Are, and Aren't, the Answer 10 min
- Weeing in the House: Telling a Medical Problem from Marking and Behaviour 11 min
- Bladder or Kidneys? When Urinary Signs Point Higher Up 10 min