- Hi I'm Parris and this is Pierre,
the next day of Pierre Week.
Are you enjoying your week?
He says he's enjoying it.
Today we're going to try out a little medical test.
Oh no, don't listen about this!
It's actually not at all painful.
It's a urine test that checks
some general wellness characteristics for your pet.
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Thank you to the people at PetConfirm for sending us out
this little kit of tests to try out.
There are two test strips in here
and I'm going to capture Pierre's urine.
Yes I am Pierre.
That will be tomorrow morning.
This goes for just over $20
and it tests basically for diabetes, kidney disease,
and a urinary tract infection.
I'll put a link to this right below the video.
So it's as simple as capturing the urine
from your dog or your cat.
Now, if you need an easier way to do that,
they will also sell you separately,
but they sent us along, thank goodness,
they also sent along for us this little capture piece.
It's a little bowl on an extendable handle
and you capture the pee in this.
I think they've also included some plastic gloves
in case things get messy.
Pierre promises not to be messy.
So I'm going to capture the urine sample tomorrow morning
with his first pee of the morning
because I know he'll run out the door
and I won't have to chase him around
or take him for a long walk, waiting for him to pee.
We're gonna get this over with quickly, correct?
Pierre is being so well-behaved,
I'm truly surprised.
Maybe the thought of doing a medical test
has him a little upset.
I know how you feel, they always worry me too.
Yes I'm out here too, but not to play,
But ou don't wanna know about that!
All right, here we go.
Should I be on the left side, the right side?
I don't know.
Am I bothering you?
(chuckling) I'm sorry.
Don't be shy.
Okay, there we go.
I've got plenty, plenty!
Well I got the sample,
not without a little bit of spilling.
Probably should have put on the included plastic gloves
before starting the whole process,
but now I'm ready to do the laboratory work.
Here are the instructions, it's pretty simple.
You dip a little test strip into the urine
and wait a couple minutes and then check the colors.
So it's explained here.
There's a card included with your color chart
so you can see if there's any positive results
that you would want to bring to the attention
of your dog's veterinarian.
There are two test strips included, which I like.
You can test at different times a few months apart
or what I imagine happens sometimes is it's hard to see,
is that a green or a yellow color on the test strip?
If you're not sure, you can wait a couple days,
run the test again in order to get more accurate results.
I have the test strip package now open.
I'm ready to dip that into the urine.
I will put the gloves on before doing this.
The one thing that bothered me about the collection process,
when you get the sample collected,
and you hold it, it's warm.
And I worked for a short time
in a bone marrow transplant unit of a veterans hospital.
I was a data clerk kind of person
but occasionally the nurses, in a hurry,
would hand me a collected sample,
urine sample or stool sample,
to send down to the lab for analysis,
which was fine except that it was so warm!
It was body temperature,
which, of course it was body temperature,
but every time that bothered me.
Dog temperature is even higher that human temperature
if you didn't know that.
Here we go.
Great aroma.
I only needed two or three milliliters.
Pierre provided an ample sample.
Now, I was gonna time it on my phone.
I can't activate the fingerprint sensor.
Here's the cute little test strip
with a little paw thing on the end.
That's covering the exposed portion,
so I'm gonna pull that off.
You can see, I'll show you up close,
the three little test portions of the strip.
So all three tests are included right here.
All right.
1001, 1002, 1003,
1008, 1009, 1010.
Okay, what that allowed to happen
is the material
soaked up the pee basically
and pulled it up to each of the three test strips.
I'm gonna let my timer run so when it gets to two minutes
then I'll do the comparison
with the colors on the test chart.
I'm afraid to touch anything.
I don't know what I might have urine on.
Ugh.
Okay, it has been two minutes.
The colors have filled in.
Let me show you this up close.
All right, so this side over here,
these colors are the negative results
and these are positive, if you see any of those.
And then you can see the colors I got in the strip.
They all match to my eye, pretty closely,
with negative results,
so Pierre is good for his general health.
I seem to be getting pee on everything now, so,
hee, hee take these gloves off.
The very bottom-most one, looking at it,
and of course as time goes by the colors can change
and it's not as accurate,
it had a little bit of a green tinge to it.
That's the protein.
And that one I've read, the first pee in the morning
sometimes there can be a little bit of protein.
But I still think his color matched most closely
to a negative result.
That's right, you do this.
So whatever is on the outside of them stays away from you.
I remember now!
(sighs) And there is a second test strip.
There isn't a second pair of gloves.
I guess you just rinse out the vial and reuse it,
if you don't think that's too vile.
So we had no reason to expect that Pierre
had any medical problems.
This is just sort of, if you have your dog
do a well-check at their vet once a year,
maybe after six months, especially when they get older,
you can run a test like this just to catch something sooner,
rather than it be the better part of a year
that they might have something that's developed
and because they didn't show any symptoms
and because they weren't in for a blood test
or a urine test, nothing was detected.
It would be better to catch it sooner.
At least that's what my doctor tells me
about why I have to go in every six months.
So this single test costs about $10.
It's quite a bit less than the fee
to have the vet do the urine sample and do the testing.
So if it's something you need to check on an ongoing basis
for whatever the health reason is with your pet,
this is certainly a less-expensive way to do it,
and you get all the enjoyment
of chasing your dog around with this.
Thanks again to PetConfirm for sending us out this test kit.
It was very interesting.
If you're interested in picking one up,
we'll have a link to where you can
right below this video.
Now it does work for cats too.
I don't even know exactly what they're saying
about the urine collection, however,
it's with clean gravel or non-absorbent litter.
So I'm assuming if you have a cat, you know what that means.
I'm thinking it means they do their business
and you scoop the stuff up.
Unless you're supposed to put that in here
and try to get it under your cat,
don't know about cats.
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