How To Get A Urine Sample From A Small Dog

How to Collect a Urine Sample from Your Dog or Cat

How to Collect a Urine Sample from Your Domestic dog or Cat

This week has been all nigh pee. AMC's front desk has been decorated receiving tubes, Tupperware and tinfoil full of it. It seems similar all of my patients are having urinary tract issues at the aforementioned time and their owners are struggling to collect and deliver it all to AMC.

Urine collection from your pet is certainly a tricky process, and some of the pet owners were very creative in their solution to the challenge. In this blog post, I'll share their solutions with you, since someday you lot might find yourself in their shoes – trying to keep your pet's pee off of your shoes. Plus, your pet's veterinarian will beloved y'all if you bring a urine sample to your pet's annual visit, and don't forget that fecal sample either!

Smokey

The owner of Smokey, a Persian, used plastic wrap. He placed the plastic wrap over the clean litter in the litter box. Smokey didn't seem to notice, and the plastic caught the urine in its folds. Smokey's possessor and so used syringes to collect the urine off the plastic and delivered the urine to me.

Nathan

Nathan is a Maltese who'south had his share of bladder problems – stones and a small tumor successfully removed past AMC surgeons. Like many small, city dogs, Nathan uses wee-wee pads for urinations. Past flipping the pad upside down (blueish plastic side upwardly), then the urine would not exist captivated past the pad, the owner waited for Nathan to practice his business, so folded the pad to create a spout and poured the urine into a clean container for send.

Amelia

Amelia, the Labrador, presented a different claiming in collecting urine. Many owners of female dogs slip one of those tinfoil pie pans under their dog when they urinate. For Amelia, the dissonance of the pan sliding under her was startling and the pan tended to fold as it was pushed. The shape was correct, just the material was not. So Amelia's owner switched to one of those environmentally unsound, but very sturdy, plastic disposable plates with an elevated rim. Once she caught the urine, she poured it off the plate into a clean container with a screw on hat.

I final thought

Collecting urine from your pet is not but decorated work for the pet owner. Information technology provides disquisitional medical information. The results from the urine examination helped me confirm Smokey did non have kidney disease, showed Nathan's tumor had not recurred and proved that Amelia was not drinking too much water. And that is why this week was all about pee!

Dr. Ann Hohenhaus is a third-generation veterinarian, double board certified in Oncology and Small Animal Internal Medicine. Equally AMC's official spokesperson, she is regularly featured in the national news media, writes extensively about animal wellness, and hosts a monthly radio show and podcast on Sirius XM Stars Channel 109, "Ask the Vet." In addition, she has contributed widely to research manufactures and textbooks, lectures internationally, and has won prestigious awards for her work in both veterinarian medicine and journalism. In 2021, she was selected to exist a member of the influential World Small Animal Oncology Working Group.