cat urine sample - how?

[Best Aunt]

Has anyone had luck getting a urine sample from a cat?

SIL is supposed to get a urine sample from her 16-year-old male cat. Her vet said to put a plastic bag on top of the litter in the litter box. Her cat refused to get in the litter box with the plastic bag on there.

My vet once said to take the litter out of the litter box and put styrofoam packing peanuts in there. My cat refused to get in the litter box, so I don't want to make that suggestion.

If anyone has had any luck, I would appreciate hearing about it.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Our vet gave us a special "litter". And we locked kith in a bathroom overnight and by morning we had a sample. The litter is nonabsorbing so the urine simply puddled in the box.

If that didn't work, they would have just given him a catheter.

I had one cat many years ago that I had to manually express their bladder. She had an accident and had no nerve sensation so we massaged her bladder. Not sure if that is possible. I can't say it was fun to do.

 

[amid chaos]

Clean the litter box and make sure the cat sees you do it. They love to dirty a clean litter box. Wait until you see the cat squat and then hold a small paper cup under the stream. The trick is catching them in the act. With patience, it works every time.

 

[Imzadi]

Clean the litter box and make sure the cat sees you do it. They love to dirty a clean litter box. Wait until you see the cat squat and then hold a small paper cup under the stream. The trick is catching them in the act. With patience, it works every time.

My cat would never allow this. She's very modest normally. She won't go into her box when I walk in the room. I've seen her stop mid-paw and look at me with an expression of, "Excuse me!!!! I'm trying to go to the bathroom. Privacy please!" Other times, she will jump out as soon as she's done, if I happen to walk in. She will fly out of the box. A NASA shuttle launch has less projectile momentum.

What has accidentally worked is: There is usually very little kitty litter in the box. All the dirty kitty litter was pushed to one side of the box, (cat did that, not me,) and there was an empty space of plastic at the bottom of the box. (Don't scoop yet.) Cat won't step on the dirty kitty litter,especially if you leave the poo exposed on top. But, there is enough kitty litter in the box, and since she pushed it all over to one side, to her the box looks "normal," she squatted over the empty plastic side and went.

 

[tonilea]

You could try a plastic bag and some rocks like go in a fish tank - cleaned but with no detergents used, of course. It would be fairly close in texture.

ETA: some type of plastic beads might work better

 

[MelanieC]

I got special litter from the vet, but my cat would not participate in the strange litter party, lol.

 

[PenguinWaiters]

Our vet had us shred wax paper and use that in place of litter. That worked the first time but not the last time. So, our vet sold us some special litter to use the last time.

 

[hellokitty86]

We got the special litter from the vet too. Worked like a charm!

 

[Best Aunt]

Wonder why the vets don't all offer the special litter as an option.

Pushing all the litter to one side would work for my cat. I'm going to keep that in mid if I ever need to do this.

I'll pass these on to SIL. Thank you.