Urinary behaviour alerts

Posted about 12 hours ago by Sianbailey

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You have a pop up for when weight changes. I am a veterinary nurse but I also have a cat with kidney issues. When she has an issue with kidneys it is normally highlighted by an initial increase in episodes of urinating. You already have a feature that can work out your pets average toilet habits. Please can you add a pop up to indicate when toileting is out of the normal range. This will benefit;


-owners with SUB implants in cats to track if sudden change and potential infection setting in that requires specialist care

-owners with cats that suffer from cystitis who can be notified earlier if their pet has signs of cystitis due to increased visits

-owners with cats that have a blocked bladder who will likely frequent the litter tray a lot. This is a medical emergency and requires urgent care. 

- owners with a cat that is suffering from gastric upset. This admittedly is something an owner is more likely to smell as well but it will help reduce the smearing that can happen with diarrhoea if you are notified your pet has suddenly increased frequency to puramax

- owners with a cat that has constipation as again they would be frequenting a lot.

- owners with a cat that is suffering from or starting to suffer from CKD to help keep an eye on how they are managing


As you can see there are so many benefits that you can get from indicating to owners a change in toilet habits. Please make this a function. For my cat I dont always notice until 3 or 4 days later that she has had a 3 or 4 fold increase in normal toilet trips as she tends to do it whilst im not in home (not in early morning or evening). If it occurs in evening it is normally coupled by inappropriate urination and that is when I then check the history. Currently trying to battle a potential resistant infection so please please please add this.


A feature to notify you of this would be incredibly beneficial and I feel would not require much in the way of code as you already have a method to track the averages already. Alternatively maybe allow us to set a number of toilets before we are informed about going over that threshold.


Further to this the time spent in a litter tray and a sudden change to average can be beneficial for those who dont have cats that randomly like to sit as well for same reasons above.


Honestly cannot stress how helpful this would be.

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