home pregnancy test for dogs

My friend Amy and I have done home pregnancy test for pets in the past. However, her cat, Gidget, has grown so big over the last few years that we needed to start thinking about how to get her pregnant. So, we did the next best thing: a home pregnancy test.

And that is to use a cat urine sample that we have sent to a lab to see if it’s a positive or a negative. (You can bet we didn’t use the same cat urine sample that we used to test our puppy Gidget’s pee.) We don’t have a positive test, but we did get a really close one. The positive result came out to be a whopping 0.05 mg of PSA in her urine.

This is the same reason why you shouldn’t pee on your dog’s bed. It can be quite an expensive problem because it requires a urine sample that is expensive to get. And you cant have a positive test if a pregnant dog is around. If you can convince the lab that your dog is pregnant, then they might still take it. But if you test too early, you risk giving the dog an unknown pregnancy, and it could lead to health issues for the mother and for the dog.