Morphology and chemical composition of cystourolithes of dogs and cats in Chernogorsk city, the Republic of Khakassia

By micro- and mаcromorphological techniques, the number, weight, size, color, shape, and nature of urinary stones surface extracted from the bladder and urethra of domestic carnivorous in the city of Chernogorsk (Khakas Republic) were defined. It was found that the cystouroliths of domestic carniv- orous were different in color, nature of the surface, size and shape. Cystouroliths in females of domestic carnivorous differ in quantitative and dimension- al indices, which is probably due to anatomical fea- tures. Based on the morphology, all urinary stones of domestic carnivorous in the city of Chernogorsk are divided into sphere shaped, druse shaped, smoothed shaped and combined shaped. Reliable determination of chemical composition of urinary stones in domestic carnivorous on the basis of their morphological characteristics is impossible. Using infrared spectrometry and X-ray diffractometry methods, structural state of minerals and their quantitative ratio in urinary stones and their phase composition were found...