What would blood in urine look like on natural coloured Carefresh?

[Helen82]

Just to give me something to worry about before I go to bed... I was doing a spot clean and poo pick in Stanley and Primrose's cage (just my usual exciting Friday night!) and I found some urine soaked Carefresh that looked darker than normal. But it's hard to tell on natural coloured Carefresh whether that means the urine was blood-tinged or not. Bit of an odd question but are there any pictures of what it would look like? The only other thing I noticed is that maybe Primrose's poos looked a little bit smaller than normal. (Stanley's are very long and Primrose's more medium/'normal' size so I can tell who was responsible for what.) Both of them are eating hay, veg and pellets as normal; Primrose drinking as normal (Stanley hardly ever drinks at least not whilst I'm looking). I've not seen or heard any evidence of struggling to urinate or being in pain and they both had a clean bill of health at the vets three weeks ago. The offending clump is on the left:

I think I shall try and get some white Carefresh tomorrow and put it in their most used toilet areas and monitor the situation, but I just wondered if there any pictures out there to show what bloody pee on natural Carefresh looks like (not clumps of blood, sadly I've already seen that with Jess).

 

[Claire W]

Don’t worry. That’s not blood in urine. That’s oxidised urine

 

[Helen82]

Don’t worry. That’s not blood in urine. That’s oxidised urine

Thanks - it was still wet though? Can it oxidise if it's still fairly fresh or damp?

 

[Claire W]

Thanks - it was still wet though? Can it oxidise if it's still fairly fresh or damp?

Yes it can

 

[Helen82]

Yes it can

Thank you - will try not to get paranoid about every little thing!

 

[jayne]

Use the white carefresh , then you will know because the white carefresh is the better one