Cat Renal Insufficiency

Q/A Ginger, my old male cat, drinks increasingly. The veterinarian has diagnosed renal chronic insufficiency Can he recover?

Ginger's kidneys have been getting damaged along his life and do not have arrangement. The surgical transplant to the cats is not available yet, though it might be in a future. If Ginger's disease is not very advanced, the rehydration by means of intravenous liquid (a drip) can do that it eliminates the toxins that the kidneys could not have eliminated of his body. There are other medicines and could recommend special diets. If it is not possible to do anything to relieve Ginger's suffering, the euthanasia would be the most pious thing. Speak about it with his veterinarian.

I have just changed to my cat Sphinx from canned food to dry food. It seems that he wants to drink more and even to start going around the bath shower when it leaks. Is there some relation?

Yes. Canned food for cats has up to 87 per cent of water; enough for the liquid needs of a cat. When you give dry food to a cat you must always give water to his disposition, to compensate the absence in the food. It would have been better to do the change of diet of Sphinx little by little, to have time him to adapting.