CRF and stinky pee

[CurlyCatz]

swampmax mum...YES crf sufferers have stinky urine, sometimes with a fairly advanced case (undiagnosed) come in you can practically diagnose it just on the smell the cat is carrying with them.

[Millys Mum]

Finally some one who owns up about sugarpuff wee, for years everyone i know has denied all knowledge 
I ate some lovely beet roots once and the next day i thought i was dying from internal bleeding 

[Mark]

Have you started any different meds? That can change the smell of pee.

Sugar puffs do it to humans 

I'm glad you said that as I always thought so 

Asparagus does in a big way but not with everyone (that's how clapton's pee smells)

Also any high-protein food - ie chicken

[lucy]

Sugar puffs do it to humans 

I won't ask! 

[Millys Mum]

Have you started any different meds? That can change the smell of pee.

Sugar puffs do it to humans 

[swampmaxmum]

yes, although I suppose the urea is ammonia isn't it? I'm a bit vague on it all. I know his urine concentration is not good. Sometimes the smell's better than others too. A sample down the vets next week I suppose. I want the vet to test it, not the nurses, which can be tricky to arrange.

[Mark]

Clapton's pee smells really bad and I have to completely change his tray every other day. Not sure if it's the CRF or the Fortekor. You would expect it to be less smelly as it is so unconcentrated 

[Gill (sneakiefeline)]

I dontb rember Kockas smell getting any stronger and I would thinkif theybare drinking a lot the reverse would happen.

It could be that antibiotics but I would check with the vet.

[swampmaxmum]

No delicate way to put the title of this thread, sorry.  I've noticed just in the last week that Swampy's pee honks far more than it used to and it is an ammonia type smell obviously. He's not drinking or peeing any more than normal as yet (he pees about 4x a day, some more copious than others) and next week I will take in a sample when I can get one to the vet's, but is this pretty standard as CRF develops? If it's an infection I'll have to be quicker about it. Having said that, he had an antibiotic injection on Thursday as his cold is so awful that that could be a major factor in the struggle to nosh. (he's now got to sit on the loo - closed lid! - while we shower with our extractor fan off, with a bowl of olbas oil next to him....seems to like it, not that it works too well).