Emergency Vet Visit

I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. Tigger peed on us while we were sleeping - he hasn't done this since he was a kitten. I thought maybe its just because he's getting older, maybe he's losing some bladder control. I woke Chris up and we quickly started stripping the bed so we could soak them in Nature's Miracle (awesome stuff for getting rid of the enzymes in pet urine). We were going to grab the duvet from the guest bedroom so we could go back to bed, then we noticed that there were cat pee spots all over it too... and some of the spots looked like there was blood in it. I rushed to the litter boxes and sure enough there was blood in the litter. We corralled Tigger into his pet carrier, so he wouldn't pee anywhere else and finished cleaning up the messes. We re-made our bed, put a couple summer weight blankets on. I emailed my work to let them know that I would be late in to work, I knew we had to make an emergency trip to the vet's in the morning. It could be as simple as a bladder infection, but it could also be something very much worse.

We went to the vet practically as soon as it opened. The vet squeezed out a urine sample (it was kinda funny to watch as he made tigger pee onto the examination table) and there was blood in it. We were told it was probably just a bladder infection - crystals in the urine. He gave us some special food and told us to watch him for the next 10 days.

I'm really worried about him, and I don't want him to pee on anything else in the house so as soon as we got home we set up the puppy crate for tigger, with a place to sleep, a litter box and his food dishes. He'll have to be crated whenever we're not there to watch him. Hopefully he'll be able to pee better soon. It looks like he always feels like he has to go... even when there's nothing in there.