Ellie was just diagnosed with a UTI. We could not get a sample so they took one. It is way too hard to catch it in midstream (I guess a few people have done it but that just didn't work). Anyway, it is a very busy vet so they didn't have a room open for us. They took Ellie in the back and took it via cystocentesis. Every other way of taking it has the potential to contaminate the urine on the way out but catheter is the second best (I just studied all of this before we took her in). I don't think that there is any reason your dog should have to wait in a cage to go when they could just take it.
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