Necessity is the mother of invention

Sometimes you have to bring a sample of the dog's urine to the vet for examination. Some times ago I had to catch urine from Spike, he had passed some water in his sleep. The vet wanted to examine it for inflammation of the bladder. Spike and I went out for a walk, soup ladle in my hand. Everytime Spike lifted his back leg, I held the soupladle under the stream and Spike stopped passing water!! But it's dogged as does it, I could bring the vet a small sample. Luckely there was enough urine and it was clean!

This event reminded me of the times I walked behind Terry, to catch some of her urine. With a bitch it is even more difficult. In Terry's case I held a soupplate in my hand, everytime Terry sat down to do her business I shove the plate under her. She also stopped right away with what she was doing! But in the end we succeeded and we could bring a sample to the vet.

The vet wanted to take a look at the urine through his microscope while we were waiting. Suddenly he said: "That's strange there are crawlers in the urine, this is something I have never seen before.... It looks like lice"!! And lice they were... they had fallen in the plate with urine while I was shoving it behind Terry through the lawn! We had a good laugh!

Rocker, our Irish Terrier, was a size bigger, his urine was examined quite often. With him I used a saucepan.

I never told my family about the plate, the ladle and the saucepan....