Urine sample - how?

[Orangehorse]

Took my dog, 9 year old bitch Jack Russell, to the vet for annual jabs and health check. All fine, except the vet gave me a bottle for a urine sample.

How? If I try and catch it in a bowl I know she will go all shy and try to run away, even if on the lead.

Any tips?

 

[Tinkerbee]

Took my dog, 9 year old bitch Jack Russell, to the vet for annual jabs and health check. All fine, except the vet gave me a bottle for a urine sample.

How? If I try and catch it in a bowl I know she will go all shy and try to run away, even if on the lead.

Any tips?

I managed it on a morning wee (so likely to be a longer one) using the pot they provided, but something small ish helps. I took her out on a lead, waited till she had definitely started then quickly ducked in with the pot. She was not impressed and I got a bit wet but got the sample. ?

 

[Penny Less]

I used a flat baking tray and slid it under mine( or you could use a plastic sandwich box lid)

 

[angrybird1]

A flat tray type our or small kidney dish. Don't try to get it straight in to pot! You want something you can quickly slide under her.

 

[HeyMich]

A small frying pan (lined with cling film) with a long handle! Do it during their morning pee and keep the dog on the lead. You may need to have a few attempts...

 

[CorvusCorax]

Old Chinese takeaway container.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

I use a plastic drinks bottle cut down to look like a scoop. Keep the lid on and that end intact to use as handle. Easy to slip under them without them noticing too much. Helps if you have a bitch who will wee on command.

 

[blackcob]

Ladle!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

I've used a few different things to collect pee samples through the years, all of them have been of metall, or plastic, rectangular shaped, and with edges. I've taken pee samples on bitches that have been from around 40 centimetres to around 65 cm tall, and edges 3,5 cm to around 4,5 cm high is low enough to get in under their rumps, but high enough to most times avoid sploshing my hand with urine. But if you for example have a Chihuahua, you need to find something smaller.

I now actually have two stacks of metallic, and from later years, plastic Chinese takeaways containers in my kitchen, which I can use of if I need to collect pee samples.

If your veterinarian have asked you to take a sample of tomorrow's morning pee, you have the day on you to train your dog that it is okay that you shove something in under her as she's about to pee. Keep the leash as short as possible, and expect her to do anything from jump away, to offendendly stop peeing while giving you a what the heck do you think you're doing look.

It is usually as much seeing you hastily bend down in the corner of their eye, that they react upon, as the getting something shoved in under them. That is why HeyMich's suggestion about using a handle is a good idea. If you tape the container you're using on to some type of a long stick, you can shove it under them without alarming them with rapidly bending down behind them.

But if you're weird like me, you can usually get them used to having their pee collected without taping the container to a stick, simply by doing it for training purpose a few times.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Ladle!

In theory that sounds like a brilliant idea, but doesn't it require more precision than with a rectangular container?

Also, I feel a bit hesitant about eating soup made with a ladle which occasionally is used as a pee sample collector.

**Makes mental note to avoid eating soup in other dog owner's homes**

 

[planete]

I always use a ladle, then it goes in the dishwasher

 

[blackcob]

Ladle does require more accuracy but avoids bending down to slide the tray (with resultant dog suspicion!)

In our dog cupboard there's both a ladle and a tupperware pot clearly marked 'PISS' with permanent marker. ? The thermometer is similarly very clearly marked 'DOG'...

 

[Orangehorse]

Wow, thank you people. I now have some practical ideas.

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Ladle does require more accuracy but avoids bending down to slide the tray (with resultant dog suspicion!)

In our dog cupboard there's both a ladle and a tupperware pot clearly marked 'PISS' with permanent marker. ? The thermometer is similarly very clearly marked 'DOG'...

I would need to buy a ladle with longer handle, because I just measured mine. 20 centimetres = I would still need to rapidly bend down behind them, and I would probably be in even bigger hurry due to worry about probably needing to re-aim the smaller collecting area.

Because my bitches fluffy trousers hides everything that is happening below them, so basically I'm shoving the container in under them blindly. To then use something which requires more accuracy, still doesn't sound like something worth trying.

 

[Merry neddy man]

A small piece of kitchen towel then wearing disposable gloves wring it out into a container.

 

[angrybird1]

Tape a ladel on to a broomhandle?

 

[scats]

I used the lid off a takeaway tub. Slid it under while she was peeing.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Bit much for collecting dog piss.

 

[blackcob]

I assume this got adver-spammed again but without context that’s a funny comment. ?

 

[Birker2020]

Ladle does require more accuracy but avoids bending down to slide the tray (with resultant dog suspicion!)

In our dog cupboard there's both a ladle and a tupperware pot clearly marked 'PISS' with permanent marker. ? The thermometer is similarly very clearly marked 'DOG'...

PMSL

 

[CorvusCorax]

I assume this got adver-spammed again but without context that’s a funny comment. ?

Yes, it was an ad for container homes!!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Bit much for collecting dog piss.

After seeing this witty reply to the now removed new post with a shameless attempt at promoting container homes, I'm almost sorry I pressed the Report button this morning.