| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
| Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5089 |
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A friend of mine has an 8-month old Russian Blue Female who has
just been diagnosed as having FUS. My friend has been having a
devil of a time trying to get a urine sample. I went through all
of the FUS keynotes and found the "trick" using the
saucer-under-the-squatting-kitty (which she had tried).
Do any of you wonderful experts have any other tricks of the trade
for this type of thing?
Thanks in advance!
Anne
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| 2182.1 | another approach.... | ISLNDS::SOBEK | Fri Jan 27 1989 09:57 | 15 | |
Your friend's vet should be able to "express the bladder" if she
brings the cat in for a check up. This consists of squeezing with
gentle pressure in the lower abdominal area causing urine to be
expelled. My friend did this several time daily for many years for
a orange tiger feral (manx) that was born with a defect that prevented
him from controlling the bladder muscles. She had the cat for a
dozen years or so before she sadly lost him to a sudden heart attack.
My friend's husband never knew that "Tigre" didn't use the litter
box along with the other cats.
I would suggest that your friend not try to do this herself without
instruction from a vet as she might unwittingly cause some damage.
But, ...if all else fails, ...it should be very easy for the vet
to do.
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| 2182.2 | One method | VAXWRK::DUDLEY | Fri Jan 27 1989 10:33 | 9 | |
My vet prefers not to express the bladder for urine samples.
One of my cats will go in an empty box. I shut her in the
bathroom with food/water and empty box. I put a folded towel
under one end of the box so it's slightly elevated. When
she urinates in the box, it flows down to the lower end.
I then suction it up with a syringe and bring it in immediately
to the vet. Transport in ice.
Donna
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