Strange results from Urinalysis

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Randy had a UTI two weeks ago, had WBC & RBC present in urine. A repeat test today showed what the receptionist described to me as several odd things in his urine. She said the vet said she had no idea what it was and they were sending it to Antech for further evaluation and for me not to worry. Sure. Anyway, the urine catch was not clean. I got it this morning on the walk. He kicked the bowl over several times, stepped in it, it was very difficult to obtain. I would think if something in the urine, like a grass particle, leave, dirt, etc, would be detected as such and the vet would know what it was. So now I'm reading about Bladder Cancer in dogs, and imaging all sorts of terrible things. I'm going to get copies of his results of the UA tomorrow. I may call the vet too. Won't know the results of the Antech test until early next week. Shame on me for not getting more information today. Anyway, anyone had a dog with "several similar, strange objects" in their urine?
 
forget it and get clean catch of urine, once it contaminated it could be anything and means nothing... at worst you will treat something your dog does not have.... repeat the urine test!
 
I agree, get another sample. You never know that you are contaminating the sample with - every bit of dirt could be carrying disease microbes that show up in the urinalysis and there is no indication of where the microbes come from so it would be v. difficult to tell the differece between what comes from your dog and what comes from the contamination.
 
I agree, I'd do a repeat sample. Our Ivy had bladder cancer and she did not test postiive for a UTI but had to go all the time and as the disease progressed she would go outside and just squat endlessly with nothing coming. Her tumor was clearly visible on an ultrasound.

I'd ask the vet if you can bring in a clean sample to have them test again.
 
A urine cultures needs to be a clean sample. Your vet can remove urine from his bladder. You need sterile urine. if it was the urine culture that came back funky, then bring him to the vet and have them catch his urine and retest it.

A urinalysis doesn't have to be as sterile.
 
O.K. How does the vet go about getting a sterile urine sample? Once a vet wanted to do a cystocentesis which I understood to be inserting a needle into the bladder and drawing a sample out. THen again I think I saw on Animal Planet once where vet's squeezed urine out.
 
I'm honestly not really sure. It might be a needle in the bladder. Bailey had it done once. They took her in the back and brought her back to me 5 minutes later.
 
Same thing for Lexi--they took her back to get urine, and she was back in less than 5 minutes. Whatever the procedure, it must be simple, easy and painless :)
 
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