Dark urine in the dog

Attentive, caring owner will not only feed and walk the dog , but also notice any problems in her condition. Particular attention should be paid to the process of urination, the appearance, the body's secretion of the liquid.

Normal excretions in the dog have a straw-yellow color; if he has become a dark pet, you should immediately contact the veterinarian to find out why this happened. Most often, the cause of changes can only be determined by conducting a complete laboratory analysis.

Possible reasons

Dark dog urine does not always indicate problems related to health, it can change under the influence of natural causes (for example, a lot of carrots and beets in the diet of an animal or when taking certain medications).

But in some cases, if the pet urine is dark brown, it can talk about liver disease, kidney bleeding, pyroplasmosis , DIC syndrome, poisoning with hemolytic poison.

Also it is worth paying attention to additional symptoms - if the liver is damaged, yellow foam may appear while shaking the urine; when a kidney or urogenital system (tumor) is affected, a purulent-brown shade appears; an admixture of blood in the brown urine will most likely indicate an infectious disease such as cystitis, pyelonephritis, urethritis.

At the same time, to understand the full clinical picture, it is necessary to follow the smell of urine - if it is sharp, fetid, resembles the smell of rotten meat, this indicates the presence of a large number of bacteria in the body. Also you need to pay attention to the pet's temperature and its general condition, whether there is nausea, vomiting, weakness.

The change in the color of urine, the presence of mucus in it, any clots or inclusions - this is a serious reason to contact the veterinary clinic.