Peeing Machine

So last night we finally took Sam to the vet. We got tired of coming home to a new "wet spot" every night. I actually called the vet on Wednesday night and asked them if it could just be that he decided to start marking or if it was more likely a UTI...and their answer was...well it really could be either one and we won't know for sure until we have a urine sample. So off to the vet we went last night...first they found out he had tapeworms then they had to take him to get a urine sample and draw blood. The blood work was just to check the kidneys since he had a slightly abnormal reading back in June when he had his tail sewed up. So we left with pills for the tapeworms and flea/heartworm medication as a precautionary measure since they said that's how cats usually end up with tapeworms.

The vet called today and said they found crystals in his urine so they want us to change his food to try and change his pH...so that's next on the list of things to do. Of course it's the prescription Science Diet that they want us to switch to so we can only buy it at the vet. And we are still waiting on the urine culture to make sure he doesn't have a bacterial infection on top of everything else. All in all I'm guessing the peeing on rugs was a behavioral thing because he was pissed off because of the crystalized urine and the worms and who knows what else...so (keeping the fingers crossed) hopefully once these problems are alleviated...the peeing problem will be too!