Hello everyone. I have a 19-year-old kitty named Ernie who just had his rear leg amputated two days ago. For a little background information, Ernie had three spiral fractures in his rear leg (don't know how it happened), and we tried going the splint route for a couple of weeks, but he seemed miserable and kept escaping the splint. So we all decided that amputation was his best option. Ernie also has heart disease and kidney disease, so we didn't make this decision lightly. 

Anyway, we got to bring Ernie home yesterday from the hospital. The doctor said the surgery went well, and while he was in their care he ate and peed a couple of times. Last night he seemed really out of it (from the pain meds, no doubt), so we did our best to make him comfortable. Throughout the night, however, we noticed that he peed on himself probably 6 or so times. They weren't large pees, but enough to get him wet. We had him in our bed on top of towels, and we kept changing the towels every time he peed. I brought him to his litter box any time he seemed to want to leave the bed - and he actually pooped twice! So that's good! He just never seemed to want to pee in it.

Have any of you had experience with incontinence post-surgery? Ernie is eating just fine, he's pooped twice, and he's been over to his water bowl a couple of times also. We are just having issues with peeing, and I feel really bad for the guy since he's getting pee all over him. I ordered pee pads yesterday, so those should arrive soon. I just hope there isn't some underlying issue that's causing the incontinence (kidney disease, infection, etc.) and that this, too, shall pass once he's feeling better.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you!