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Hi Dr. Tobin,

Our cat had urinary blockage 2 days ago. We brought him to the vet right away, and this morning he was released from the hospital. X-ray shows no signs of stones or crystals.

Since he's back home, which is only a half hour ago, he goes to the bathroom quite often, but he does pee. It's a little bigger than a 25 cent coin each time. (He did pee a quite large amount of pee in the crate in the car while coming back home though)

My question is that I need to feed him a special canned diet that I bought at the vet for the rest of his life. It's Hill's Prescription Diet (c/d). He's about 3 years old.

Thank you in advance.

Also I just noticed that he started sneezing last night. He doen't seem sick at all, he eats great, he pees normally. Anything I should do about sneezing? Thank you again.

He doesn't need a special diet, but he should never have dry food. To help dissolve the crystals, add water to his canned food so that it is fairly soupy, and salt to get him to drink even more. Do this for a couple of weeks in order to dissolve all the crystals. I would also add 1/8 tsp of d-mannose to his food at each meal to eliminate any bacteria, for at least 2 weeks. The sneezing may be do to his treatment, or he may have picked up an upper respiratory infection. It is not necessary to continue to feed canned food, as meat or chicken, with the bones, along with cod liver oil and plain yogurt will provide all the nutrients he needs.