Free
catch urine samples are great and perfectly fine in most cases.
Babies are screened for these infections by placing a plastic bag in their diaper area and
catching a urine sample.
If possible, try and
catch a urine sample from your pet to bring in with you to be analyzed.
You can either hold the pH tape in the stream of urine while your dog is voiding, or you can
catch a urine sample in a container and dip the tape into the sample to check the pH. This should be done immediately with a fresh sample to insure accuracy.
A free -
catch urine sample can be used.
Not exact matches
Blood and
urine samples taken from athletes to spot signs of doping should be stored for 10 years, to enable technology to
catch up with substances that currently evade detection, says a consensus statement of international anti-doping bodies, published in a special issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
To avoid the risk of tumor seeding (spillage of tumor cell clusters and their subsequent growth at a site adjacent to the original tumor) through cystosyntesis (a procedure in which needle is inserted into the urinary bladder of an animal through the abdomen and a
sample of
urine is removed),
urine may be collected by free
catch or catheterization.
If this is not possible, pet guardians are often asked to obtain a first morning
urine sample (known as a free
catch sample) to drop off to their veterinarian for
urine analysis.
Most
urine samples in dogs are collected by free flow, which in translation means sneaking behind your pooch,
catching a
sample in a collection jar and getting your hand pee'd on.
Your bunny's vet can suggest specific techniques for obtaining free -
catch samples of
urine from rabbits at home, or s / he can obtain a sterile
sample in the veterinary office.
Lastly, a note regarding the type of
urine sample you can collect at home («free
catch») versus the additional type your veterinarian and their team is able to collect («cysto»).