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Anonymous
Okay /an/, hoping you can help me. I bet you're tired of cat threads but having so many of them means someone here might be able to help me out.

Back in May we moved my cat from my parents' house to my apartment. She's been fine until now, but just in the past two weeks she's peed on my bed twice, both really early in the morning (3AM and 6AM), and both times when I was sleeping in it. I can't tell if she's doing it on purpose, like a behavioral problem, or if it's an accident, like if she has a UTI.

So I'm taking her to the vet tomorrow, and I have to get a urine sample from her somehow. How the hell do I do that? I got some tips from the vet, lock her in a small room with a container with a tiny bit of litter, but I was wondering if the amazing 4chan Anonymooses had come up with any better solutions. That's my cat in the pic btw.

tl;dr version: Help me make my cat pee in a cup. Alternatively, gimme cat pics.
>> Anonymous
You know those styrofoam peanuts that come in packages? Fill the litter box with those instead of your normal litter. They don't soak up the urine, so you can just tip the litter box and pour the urine out into a cup or something. Make sure you DO NOT use the kind that decompose when exposed to water. Guaranteed to work, we used that technique at the vet clinic where I used to work.
>> Anonymous
Also, if your cat DOES happen to have a UTI, don't listen to the vet when they tell you your cat needs special food and whatnot. All it needs is cranberries. They cure UTIs in cats and cost a fraction of the special foods they will tell you the cat needs. If you go look at the ingredients on those "special" foods, one of the first few ingredients is fucking cranberries. Just get some 100% cranberry juice or something and add a tiny bit to the cat's food. Add too much and the cat won't eat the food.
>> Anonymous
Thank you so much! Now to dig like crazy for packing peanuts, hope I have some around here.
>> Anonymous
>>121073

Hah, this is funny.

Cranberries and UTIs: Here's the whole scoop. Cranberries are not a magic UTI medicine. Cranberry juice is quite acidic (and so is grapefruit juice, OJ, Lemon, etc.). Drinking a lot of cranberry juice makes the urine more acidic, and this creates a hostile enviornment for the bacteria there. It does NOT kill the bacteria outright, though it does help the body fight the infection. However, for it to be effective a fairly large amount of the juice must be consumed. Adding a little to your cat's water would be like trying to put out a fire with an eyedropper.

By the way, antibiotics that are effective against UTIs are dirt cheap. A UTI shouldn't result in a high vet bill. If it does, you're getting ripped off one way or another.
>> Anonymous
>>121197

True. Cranberries are good for prevention (when consumed in high enough amounts), but are not effective in fighting infections. I agree that adding a little juice to your cats food is no where near a sufficient amount, but mixing in some of the concentrated powder made for human UTI prevention with strongly-flavored canned food might help some. Please follow the recommendations of your veterinarian, though. He or she is much more concerned and well-informed than anyone posting here.
>> Anonymous
Try putting pebbles in the litter?

In any case, the vet can take a sample very quickly from your cat, but it is annoying for the cat, since the vet will use a needle to aspirate urine directly from the bladder..

Also don't give your cat cranberry juice. Some antibiotics will work just fine, and they are relatively inexpensive.
>> Anonymous
>>121207
troll
>> Anonymous
>>121210

NO U
>> Anonymous
When your cat is in the litter box sneak up behind it with teh cup and snaggle puss the piss, just hold it under the peeps hole
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
>>121279
Mind=blown