urine collection for pup

You could try using some kind of wide opening catch item, butter tub, pie plate and the like.

Trust me, it is going to be both hilarious and frustrating all at the same time.

Good luck.

For females, I find a hilly location, not too hilly so long as there is a slope.  If the dog has got to pee they will pee with their head uphill.  I then place a shallow bowl at their rear and with the help of gravity, I get the sample.  BTW, you don't need that much of a sample.  Males are easy because they don't watch what is going on back there so long as you don't make touch contact.  Had to do this with Sampson yesterday.

It matters not if a male is neutered or not -- whether he squats or lifts a leg is pretty much a matter of personal preference and how he was 'taught' or became accustomed to it early on.  I have a male who does both -- whatever is most convenient at the time.

Those little Glad containers can work well and are disposable.  If the dog really is too short-legged to accomplish it -- you can take a wooden yardstick and literally tape (duct tape or whatever works) the shallow container to the end of the yardstick.  Then you don't have to bend over (and telegraph your intent for a skittish dog) to just slide it under the side (for a male who squats you really have to get the dish pretty far under them to catch the stream).

DPU *smile* you think like an engineer who knows dogs LOL -- I'm outa luck here tho -- no hills in Floor-daaaaa!!!  But now I have my daily giggle -- so THAT's why they hunt all over creation for a spot -- not just smell but ... the right slope??

This will sound silly and maybe gross but it works.  Wal Mart sells plastic tarp material for 2-3 dollars in the paint area. I keep several around but you can walk the dog onto it and if they have to go , wah la a sterile speciumum is availble with little effort.  I have also used a gallon sized zip lock unopened put in the needed spot as they begin to go.  It puddles on the bag and you pour it into another baggie for the vet.

Bonita of Bwana

any sort of small, flat container (pie pan, etc) will work, as do soup ladles. We use the kidney shaped plastic pans (like they have in hospitals) as well as a ladle at work, both work fine for urine catches for dogs of all sizes

A method suggested by a vet on this forum is to

• put a disposable plastic glove on your hand,
• wet some sterile cotton in the urine stream,
• put the cotton in a ziplock bag,
• squeeze urine out of the cotton into the bag    and
• dispose of the cotton.

Thanks for all the tips, the last one sounds like a winner. Well, I managed using a custard cup, nice clean specimen and good results too. No more crystals in the urine, so we did good. It was a sight as I am 5'6" and Smokey Joe is about 9 " tall. What we won't do for our pups.