UTI?

[mognyoda19]

So.. I noticed today that one of my chins, Yoda, seems to be struggling a bit to pee.. He is also making little squeeking noises while he goes. When I took him out to play tonight, he peed a teeny tiny bit like 4 times in an hour.. I just got a new playpen and it has a sort of beige-ish mat, and it looked to me the pee had a slightly pink tone.. I am really worried and I am definitely going to try and get him to the vet tomorrow! I'm calling first thing in the morning.

Also, I tried to give him a hair ring check, but I can't get it out all the way because he struggles too much and I don't want to hurt him. But I can get it out about halfway and it doesn't seem like there is anything there. It goes right back in without any help. I am going to try again in the morning when I have someone to help me. He doesn't seem to groom himself excessively down there, only after he is done harassing his poor cagemate, Mog. (lol)

Any advice before I take him in tomorrow would be greatly appreciated! He is only 4 months old and one of my first chins so I am new to taking them to the vet. I have a vet that says they treat chins, but I have heard all kind of horror stories on here and I want to make sure that when I go tomorrow, I don't get fed some BS..

 

[tunes]

Did the urine look reddish, orange? If so, that's normal urine color for a chin. Now, if he's struggling to pee it could be a hair ring or possibly a stone blocking the ureter, although I would think he's pretty young for that.

 

[mognyoda19]

I just managed to do a full hair ring check and did not see one. He is not very happy with me lol

When I got him back into the cage after that, he peed a full amount and it was a golden color.. Ihad taken out the fleece liner for just a bit so i could wipe up the pee with a kleenex to really tell. I don't know if it was just the new playpen mat that made it look that color, but him peeing so little an amount so many times in a short period worried me. It was like a pinky yellow, best I can decribe it is like the kinda color in a sunrise/sunset lol I had just never seen him pee this color, and coupled with him seeming to strain a bit I got really worried.

He is acting normal other than the noises he makes when he pees, and when he's done he's started to waddle a few steps.. My other chin doesn't do that, but is it a sort of way to keep the urine from getting on them? I hope I'm just totally overreacting and this turns out to be nothing.. lol Glad I have you guys

 

[dozier0708]

Our chinchilla did that waddle and straining to pee when he had a bladder stone. They can do a urinalysis to check if he has a UTI but we did that for our chinchilla and it came back positive and he had a bladder stone. So, if he continues to struggle after giving him UTI meds then make sure you get an x-ray.

 

[Riven]

Sometimes chins will do that as well with bloat, they try to urinate even though the don't need to because they are trying to relieve pressure in the belly.

 

[mognyoda19]

Thank you all for your input. I have an appointment with the vet this weekend so hopefully I will find out what is wrong. I will have them do an xray too to check for a bladder stone.

 

[mognyoda19]

So, when I took him to the vet Saturday, they did an ultrasound for bladder stones and didn't find any. yay! So I had to leave him at the vets til 5pm so they could get a urine sample. He didn't decide he wanted to pee for them lol so I took him home and they gave me this deck to put in my smaller cage to trap the pee. I took a sample in Monday morning and it turns out he has a mild UTI. They gave me some antibiotics and hopefully everything will clear up soon!