Collecting a urine sample from the dog.

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Our Cavalier KC has recently started urinating around the house and the vet thinks it may be an infection, but we need to collect a urine sample before she will treat it.

We are really struggling to collect anything! We have been given a scoop which attaches to the collection tube, but understandbly, every time we get anywhere near him while he's cocking his leg, he stops.

Today I started holding the scoop under him while we pet him, and while another one of us is getting his dinner ready to get him used to it. I have no idea if this will actually help, and I think if it does, by the time it works he could have been infected for ages! I need it as soon as possible!

Any tips please?

Empty ice cream carton... As soon as he looks like cocking his leg, just aim and catch...

Then decant

But our dog is taller than yours

We recently had to do this with a suspected UTI. Large plastic kitchen jug, held under weeing hound, then back into utility room to decant into tiny little sample pot.

Love the idea of the icecream carton - a Tupperware lunch box or similar might also be good.

Hmm, I was going to suggest a large container and then decant, as per the previous two posts, but mine is a leggy lurcher with plenty of clearance, iykwim. Not sure it would work with a lower slung breed.

Lurcherboy has had a spate of recurrent uti's which are being investigated at the moment, so in the end we bought a pack of those disposable roasting trays and slid one of those into place each time, then poured it into the sample pot.

... well I say we, actually dh did it, as he's the one that always lets lurcherboy out for his morning wee.

Does he have a favourite place to cock his leg? If so, could you leave a tray on the floor by it and see if you can catch some that way.

If you can't get any, don't worry - despite us taking in samples, lurcherboy has been catheterised for an additional sample every time he's been into the vets and didn't even flinch, so your vet should be able to get a sample if you can't.

I use a shallow receptacle (i.e. one of the foil trays from ready meals or plastic cartons from takeaways). I put boiling water in it to ensure it's clean, then follow my dog round the garden. I wait 'til he cocks his leg then collect some urine. He's tall though, so a bit easier! I then decant it into a screw top bottle if I don't have anything from the vet.