We went to see the vet again today. When we went several weeks ago, she told us to come back 1-2 weeks after her heat had stopped. We have been in the middle of moving so we were aiming more for the 2 weeks time frame since we would be somewhat settled by then.
On Sunday, Ayla had an accident on the kitchen floor and, since it is huge beige tiles, we clearly saw that there were a few drops of blood in her urine. She doesn’t normally have accidents and this was the first once since the few she had over Christmas so we were immediately a bit on edge. Not sure whether this was a certain sign that the infection was back, we made an appointment for her on Tuesday (today) and started keeping a very close eye on her. We made sure she was drinking more water and also that we were letting her outside regularly. We are pretty sure that if the UTI is back it’s our fault since we’ve had to keep her on a leash quite a bit with all the moving and probably haven’t given her enough breaks. But she didn’t complain to us or indicate that she needed to go so maybe we’re just assuming the worst.
After the appointment today, the vet said that it’s hard to determine whether the blood was just remnants of the heat still or whether she indeed has an infection. She thankfully didn’t want to put her on any more antibiotics for the time being until we actually know if there is something wrong with her or not. But we will be going in again in 3 weeks to check things out again and hopefully I can get a better urine sample this time. I used the tried and true ladle method again which worked great but I had made the mistake of taking Ayla for a walk not too long before we left and figured she would be able to produce enough of a sample in the meantime. But I was wrong and there was only a small amount in the cup at the end. To make matters worse, while we were in the waiting room, Ayla got rather excited about some of the people in there and knocked over the sample cup with her tail. We didn’t make much mess since I had a cover on it but still managed to lose the majority of the sample.
At the moment things seem totally normal with her and at least things are going to become a bit more routine again. Hopefully we won’t see any more accidents and she’ll be totally healthy when we have our next vet visit.
