Due to physical problems, some cats may suffer urinary incontinence. This can manifest itself in the form of tiny droplets of urine when the cat rises, or more severe form when the cat is still lying. In some cases, the losses they can be accompanied by a bit of blood.

Do you have our cat incontinence?

As in humans, Cat bladder is responsible contain urine and controlling the expulsion by the muscle that constitutes its walls. When the bladder exceeds its level of storage, some cats relax the sphincter and can not control the expulsion of urine.

We will notice that our cat is incontinent when:

• Lose urine.
• Keep the hair wet in the area of the lower abdomen or between their hind legs.
• Has traces of urine near where it sleeps or rests usually.
• Suffering urinary tract infections.
• Suffer skin inflammations.

In the case that our cat leave traces of urine, the first thing we have to find out is if you do voluntarily or is incontinent. There are cats that just don't urinate in your box why don't know, other why have been separated from his mother too soon and not have been educated, others want to mark their territory and any that do to inform its owner of its malaise by urinary problems.

What causes incontinence?

In some cases, the incontinence is linked to the senility. With age, the cat bodies age and cost to the animal control urination. Another type of incontinence they are those that are linked to pathological diseases, either by illness increase thirst in the cat, any type of tumor in the bladder or any lesion in the spine that affects the nervous system and therefore, urine control.

If indeed the cat has a problem in the bladder and loses urine because of a local or general pathology, the normal thing is that theincontinence is resolved when the animal recovers. But there are chronic diseases that the only thing that can be done is to mitigate these effects, whether providing access to its sand or putting absorbent diapers in her bed, always watching that your skin has minimal contact with urine.

Cystitis is the cause of the majority of the incontinence in cats. This can be caused by an inflammation, an infection, stones or tumors. In the first three cases, sphincter of the cat is relaxing and can emit some drops of urine. In the event that the cat has a tumor in the bladder, This storage will be reduced and this will cause losses. For the problem of the calculations, there is a feed that prevents this problem, but it is necessary to choose the appropriate feed that adapts better to the calculation of the cat.