Species difference

URINARY BLADDER
( Sheep, Goat, Horse, Pig, Dog, Rabbit, Fowl )

Sheep and Goat

  • Resembles the ox

Horse

  • Shorter but wider
  • It does not extend into the abdomen as forward as in the ox
  • Caudal part of the bladder is retro peritoneal

Pig

  • It is relatively very large
  • When full, it is abdominal in position

Dog

  • When empty, it is pelvic in position and when full it is entirely abdominal in position

Rabbit

  • It is little elongated.
  • It is a thin walled sac supported by median ligament of the bladder ventrally, the remnant of the ventral mesentery

Fowl

  • The ureters open into the urodeum of the cloaca. So there is no bladder as such
Last modified: Friday, 20 April 2012, 10:42 AM