how on earth do i get a urine sample from my cat ?

Question

the vet requires a urine sample but hows that possible, whats the easiest way to acomplish this please ?

Answer 1

Take a piece of saran wrap and use it to cover the litter. The cat will go on the saran wrap

Answer 2

I have had to do this numerous times with a cat who gets chronic cystitis. The crystals work really well. Just get a bottle of crystals from your vet, go home, empty and clean out the litter pan thoroughly, put only the crystals in the pan (no litter), wait for kitty to potty, then siphon up the urine into a sample bottle. Or you can pour it through a strainer to catch the crystals and have the urine flow into the sample container. If not taking the urine to the vet within a matter of hours, place the urine in your refrigerator to adequately preserve the sample. Do your best to avoid contamination. It really is simple. Not fun or convenient but not that difficult, either. Like I said, I have become a seasoned pro at this.

Answer 3

these are the methods we use at my clinic:

either use some of the special non-absorbing crystals from the vet or put the cat in a small room with a sparkling clean and empty litter box. the cat will still use it out of habit (most do anyway) and you can pour the urine into a container for bringing in. don't use regular litter - the dust & litter particles can contaminate the sample.

if you're real quick and patient, you can hover around your cat in the box, and catch it with a clean soup ladle that you put under the kitty's rump when it squats.

if all else fails, ask the vet if needle aspiration or a catheter would work. they can tap into the cat's bladder at the clinic. it's the most invasive but it's not really painful, and it also gives you the cleanest sample. if they're only reading the specific gravity, cleanliness won't matter quite as much, but if they need to run it thru a machine to read it, this may be best.

Answer 4

I have the vet do it via cystocentesis to get a clean sample. Then as has been mentioned there is the idea of filling the litterbox with some nonabsorbent material I think plastic pellets /"beans" are usually better than rocks but if you use rocks make sure they are not dusty . And another thing you can try is spreading some overlapping pieces of plastic wrap over the litter and sort of smush the edges down around the sides, then urine will be trapped in the plastic and you can take a syringe and draw it out and put into a vial or jar.

Answer 5

Thankfully my cats pee on a pretty regular schedule. But they are low squatters so I'd never get a ladle under them. I make sure the box only has a small amount of litter then suck it up with a syringe.

If they are checking for crystals in the urine, it's important to get it to the vet ASAP after getting a sample so wait as long as you can. If it has to sit for any length of time (like an hour or more), put it in the fridge until you can get it to the vet. That's what my vet told me to do.

One of my cats did have the needle aspiration done once. I thought it would hurt her but she was more annoyed with being held down on her side than by the needle being poked into her.

Answer 6

Usualy the vet can get the sample on their own by either pushing on the bladder (Do not do on your own thow) or they sometimes stick a needle into the bladder and suck out the urine or they have you keep your cat there and use a spcial nosorb litter to where they can get the urine when they pee. I would say for you to just put nothing in the litter box for right now and hope she uses it anyways if that does not work talk to your vet about it they know how to get it on their own.

Answer 7

I had to do this with my first cat. I would leave her shut in a room with the litter tray, with shredded paper in it, and she would not use it! She would hang on til I let her out. Eventually I managed to catch her digging in the garden, and went behind her with a foil dish and held it under her, this worked, it was sufficient to put into the container I was given.
One time she would not "go" for days and I had to go to the vets without the sample, but as I was coming away from the vets, she did it in the cardboard box she was in,and I had to run back in there with the box!

Answer 8

Get a new litter box.Purchase the tiny rocks that are used in fish tanks for decoration.It will feel like litter to your cat.When cat pees it will pass through the little stones.Tip the litter box and get the urine sample.Cool Idea Huh.

Answer 9

Put a small amount of cat litter in the litter tray, when the cat pees there won't be enough litter to absorb all the urine and then you can tip/scoop the remainder into whatever you have to collect it in.

Answer 10

At my vets they sell some special urine crystals, basically used like cat litter, to collect the urine.

Answer 11

Your vet should give you some No-sorb and a syringe. Empty and clean out the litter box, toss in the No-Sorb and wait.

Your cat may not like it but will eventually say "oh well" and will use the box. Then use the syringe to suck up the urine.