kherrmann3
Well-Known Member
OK, it's Saturday. Saturday is cleaning day, so, I was cleaning up our bedroom and getting the pets settled when I found a white, chalky-looking urine spot in a cardboard box. I know this is from Toby (our 3.5 year old Nethie boy) because he is the only free-roaming animal in the apartment. The box has a urine spot in it that is white in the center, then has a clear-ish ring around the white spot. The white "stuff" is completely covering up the color of the brown cardboard box and looks somewhat chalky. It reminds me of thin bird-poo. The clear ring around it is where the liquid soaked into the box, but because the box is brown, it is hard to say what color the liquid is. It looks a little yellow-ish. No red-tinging or coloring at all. The spot is about 2.5 inches long and 1.5 to 2.0 inches wide. Most of the spot it the white "stuff" and there is about a half-inch of the clear ring around it.
Why would his urine be chalky looking? Is it even urine? Should he go to the vet ASAP? I have found these on the carpeting before, but I didn't think much of them because they did not look like this (our carpeting is white with other colors mixed in). When it was on the carpeting, the "white" part did not soak in to the carpet like urine would. It almost seemed frothy. There was never a lot of it (speck here and there), so I never thought about it.
What the heck is it? (I can take photos, but I don't know if I can upload them right now... My laptop isn't working, and I can't get them straight onto my roommate's computer).
Why would his urine be chalky looking? Is it even urine? Should he go to the vet ASAP? I have found these on the carpeting before, but I didn't think much of them because they did not look like this (our carpeting is white with other colors mixed in). When it was on the carpeting, the "white" part did not soak in to the carpet like urine would. It almost seemed frothy. There was never a lot of it (speck here and there), so I never thought about it.
What the heck is it? (I can take photos, but I don't know if I can upload them right now... My laptop isn't working, and I can't get them straight onto my roommate's computer).