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White urine?

LittleGems

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Hello all!
Just witnessed Bella having some white urine...
Is this normal ? Or should I be worried?image.webp
 
I also noticed my Finn's urine is sometimes darker, but I think it has to do with their water intake. So, when he drinks a lot, his urine will be lighter color and less water intake means darker urine. In the summer, his urine is lighter because he drinks a lot of water.

Finn gets veggies three times a day so he gets his vitamins and liquid from his veggies also.
 
Hello all!
Just witnessed Bella having some white urine...
Is this normal ? Or should I be worried?View attachment 100526

Hi! No need to worry if it is just a very occasional occurrance. Milky urine is the natural way the body is excreting excessive calcium. It dries to a powdery white patch on fleece.

Check your diet for calcium content (and keep in mind that more calcium comes with often the water and with pellets than with the more obvious high calcium veg) if you see milky pees on a near daily/several times a week basis.
See a vet if there are sharp bits in a calcium puddle. These are excreted crystals in the urine and could be an indicator of sludge in the bladder.

Again, coloured urine depends on what you are feeding and how concentrated the urine is. Please note that the water intake varies widely and that a more concentrated urine is not an indicator of dehydration or leads to long term problems. You may want to make sure that the bottle nozzle is not blocked, though.
Whereas a sudden very marked rise in drinking, coupled with lots of very watery urine and weight loss of over 50-100g should be seen by a vet once you have excluded a sudden major change in temperature/weather/outdoors-indoors move/leaky bottle and the weight loss is continuing (kidney problem or diabetes).

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