Help?

[Sowa]

We don't use it much, but she's never marked anything else before?

[Freedom]

My first thought is: get another vet. I wasn't real impressed with what you learned from today's visit.

Urine sample: this is best if you can catch the first one of the morning. Use a clean, empty yogurt container, or something like that, make sure you seal the top. If it is too early and the vet isn't open yet, keep it in the fridge.

Since she has the belly rash, and is licking paws and vulva, this may well be an allergic reaction. You have to figure out if it is food or environmental. Not easy to do; takes time. For food allergies, you start with a limited ingredient food. Use that for 3 to 4 weeks and see if there is any difference. Make sure you monitor treats too! Then start changing ONE ingredient at a time. I suggest you keep a log in a notebook, as you will quickly forget which foods you tried, start and end dates, changes in her licking. For environmental allergies, you start by keeping her off grass, see if there is any change. I know one bichon who constantly wears a sweater/t-shirt / hoodie, as she is allergic to something in the environment, her owner isn't sure what, but this keeps her from getting too itchy. In the house, she goes "naked" and is fine.

[Taz_Zoee]

I agree to get another vet. You said she was on some kind of medicine, maybe its a reaction to that. Or something in the environment like Freedom said. I hope you can figure out her belly and licking issues.

[Sowa]

I dropped off the pee today. They said they were too busy with an emergency to look at it before they closed...sooo, I won't know until Monday. My poor girl has to suffer til then. I went out and got the salmon tablets, reactine, and baby wipes (added vinegar) so I hope that helps her a bit.

[wolf_Q]

Glad you took in a urine sample. The only time Keva has ever peed in the house right in front of me was when she had a UTI. She never acted like her belly was tender and her vulva wasn't red either (though she's very furry so it would be harder to tell on her) she was licking there a lot though. I didn't realize she had an issue until her urine was discolored.

[Jessika]

Not all pets are painful or lick their vulvas when they have a UTI. Bring her back and ask that they run a urinalysis (this seems CRAZY to me that it wasn't done in the first place, anyway, since you brought up a UTI... any vet here would have been happy to run one for you just to rule it out as a possibility!!!!). I'd recommend against obtaining it yourself as collecting a voided sample can introduce bacteria and can throw it off... unless your vet doesn't obtain sterile samples via cystocentesis.

[Sowa]

Not all pets are painful or lick their vulvas when they have a UTI. Bring her back and ask that they run a urinalysis (this seems CRAZY to me that it wasn't done in the first place, anyway, since you brought up a UTI... any vet here would have been happy to run one for you just to rule it out as a possibility!!!!). I'd recommend against obtaining it yourself as collecting a voided sample can introduce bacteria and can throw it off... unless your vet doesn't obtain sterile samples via cystocentesis.

I didn't really know that. They just told me to collect it myself because it has to be the first pee of the day. I just a soup ladle from the dollar store and used that. Put it into a clean butter container. I'll ask them about it again on monday