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I've got two cats, along with 4 dogs and a rabbit. All of them are fixed (Except maybe the rabbit, but we keep her inside in her own  large cage.) All of my pets are also indoor animals.



Pumpkin is a female orange tabby, short-haired. She's definitely my cat. 
Newton is a male brown tabby, short-haired. Newton is fat and fuzzy. He was gotten by my older brother when he was a kitten, and when my brother moved out he stayed with us. A year or two back (when he was still a partially outdoor cat, before we got Pumpkin) he got horribly sick and he couldn't use the restroom, and he had an awful smell, and wouldn't eat anything. (I think it was some sort of bladder problem) and he had to have surgery for it. He's a lot nicer cat now.


Phoebe is a female toy poodle. She's the oldest of our pets, at 14 years of age. She's blind. I really can't remember when she used to be able to run faster than my brother and I. Now she just wanders in small, tiny circles, and bumps into things. If you try to pick her up, she'll snap at you. She barks at random noises (the ones she can hear), and we're afraid she's losing her senses of smell and hearing too. My sister also thinks she has something wrong with her hips, but my mom doesn't. 


Chia is a chihuahua, and is probably the youngest of our dogs. She's a rescue dog, and we've come to assume she was hurt or abused by a darker-skinned man who wore hats a lot. She would always bark at people who looked like that. When we first took her to the park she was so timid, and now she's really good, and we can even take her to the big dog side of the dog park.


Max is a bichon-pomeranian mix. Younger than Phoebe and Millie, older than Chia. He's a really sweet dog, though his fur grows really fast 
We think Millie is a Golden Retriever- Australian Shepherd mix, but we can't be sure because the people we got her from found her as a stray. They had looked all over for her owners but couldn't. All she had on was a flea collar and her fur was all messy. I wish I had a more recent picture of her (I didn't take this one) We had her taken to the vet to have her checked out a few months ago, and thankfully she is fixed, but her teeth are worn for her young(ish?) age, the vet said, meaning she was probably locked in a cage often. She was very reluctant about getting into her kennel on the first night we had her. Also, she has heart worms 
Bunny is supposedly a Harlequin mix rabbit, and is a really sweet one, too. When you put your hand up to her cage she'll come and lick it. We got her from someone who'd had her for three years (and didn't even know what gender she was, so they named her Bunny!) and they kept her in a tiny cage only maybe three times her size. We set on a project to make her a new cage, and it's all made by us. She likes it much better. Bunny loves being rubbed in between her ears.
 

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Hi there and welcome to TCS.  All your pets are really cute! I used to have rabbits too. I miss them.

Maybe you could give us specific details about Pumpkin's litter box problems and we might be able to help. (I want to make sure you can keep him!). Was he checked for bladder problems since it started?

Was anything out of the ordinary going on when it started? Any changes in the house? Does he go outside of the box everytime? Any health issues?
 
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Hi there and welcome to TCS.  All your pets are really cute! I used to have rabbits too. I miss them.

Maybe you could give us specific details about Pumpkin's litter box problems and we might be able to help. (I want to make sure you can keep him!). Was he checked for bladder problems since it started?

Was anything out of the ordinary going on when it started? Any changes in the house? Does he go outside of the box everytime? Any health issues?
Thanks for the welcome.

Pumpkin tends to just pee or poo right outside of the litter box. I'm sure she uses the box sometimes, but lately it's seemed to be more often outside of the litter box. She doesn't have any health or bladder problems, but she's been doing it for a while. My mom's getting fed up with her. Pumpkin also likes to pee on things lying around on the ground (more so backpacks, jackets, things that are soft) I've been looking online for things to help attract her to the litter box and my mom says she has some of the stuff I was looking at. (Which makes me wonder why she never decided to try it in the first place but oh well) There's not much else about it, other than that when she does use the litter box she doesn't scrape and cover her mess.
 

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Hi and welcome to TCS! :wavey:
You have an impressive fur family there!
I hope you can find a solution to Pumpkin's bathroom habits.
 

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Have you tried cleaning it up with an enzyme cleaner? This can help because if the cat can't smell any traces of it it's less likely she'll mark there again. You could also try Cat Attract brand litter.

You mentioned she looks for soft places to go. Usually if a cat has a urinary tract infection they will look for somewhere softer to go because they associate the litter box as the cause of pain. I would get a vet check-up if the last one was before this started.

Good luck with Pumpkin. She's a cutie.
 
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Hi and welcome to TCS!

You have an impressive fur family there!
I hope you can find a solution to Pumpkin's bathroom habits.
Thank you for the welcome. 
 They are a lovely group of furry family members. ^^ I hope to find that solution too. I'm about to go a try some stuff that's supposed to attract cats to the box, wonder if it'll help at all.
 
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Have you tried cleaning it up with an enzyme cleaner? This can help because if the cat can't smell any traces of it it's less likely she'll mark there again. You could also try Cat Attract brand litter.

You mentioned she looks for soft places to go. Usually if a cat has a urinary tract infection they will look for somewhere softer to go because they associate the litter box as the cause of pain. I would get a vet check-up if the last one was before this started.

Good luck with Pumpkin. She's a cutie.
I haven't tried that yet, but I'll ask my mom about it. We can't use that brand of litter right now because we have an automatic box that uses a certain litter. She doesn't really search for soft places to go, but if she sees something on the ground she'll walk over and pee on it. 
 She's been doing this for forever, and when our other cat got a urinary infection he couldn't go to the restroom at all. I think she just likes to pee on stuff on the ground. She pees on boxes, too. Thanks for the help though, and yes, she's very cute. (And actually, she's right next to me as a type this, meowing and rubbing me for me to feed her. Oh Pumpkin, why can't you be more quiet like Newton?) lol
 

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Do your cats and rabbit get along? I know that would be rare but I saw a video on youtube of a cat and a rabbit laying in a cat bed together. The cat was spooning the rabbit and licking him and the rabbit was falling asleep. If that wasn't cute enough, the cat was wearing a sweater!

I don't know how to post it here but the video is called Cat Hug Rabbit. It's so cute.
 
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Do your cats and rabbit get along? I know that would be rare but I saw a video on youtube of a cat and a rabbit laying in a cat bed together. The cat was spooning the rabbit and licking him and the rabbit was falling asleep. If that wasn't cute enough, the cat was wearing a sweater!

I don't know how to post it here but the video is called Cat Hug Rabbit. It's so cute.
Well I guess they get along, but they're not like, 'best friends,' they really just kind of ignore one another. It's the doggies (Except Phoebe of course) who are more interested in the rabbit, always prodding their noses into her fur and licking her long ears. We don't let our rabbit just roam around (as that'd lead to poop everywhere, as well as the rabbit probably getting lost under some piece of furniture) and when we get her out of her cage we usually just have her sit in our laps. 
 

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Do your cats and rabbit get along? I know that would be rare but I saw a video on youtube of a cat and a rabbit laying in a cat bed together. The cat was spooning the rabbit and licking him and the rabbit was falling asleep. If that wasn't cute enough, the cat was wearing a sweater!

I don't know how to post it here but the video is called Cat Hug Rabbit. It's so cute.
my cats and rabbits get along perfect
 

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Well I guess they get along, but they're not like, 'best friends,' they really just kind of ignore one another. It's the doggies (Except Phoebe of course) who are more interested in the rabbit, always prodding their noses into her fur and licking her long ears. We don't let our rabbit just roam around (as that'd lead to poop everywhere, as well as the rabbit probably getting lost under some piece of furniture) and when we get her out of her cage we usually just have her sit in our laps. 
You can actually litter train rabbits pretty easily! There's lots of forum's and websites that can help teach you how to litter train your rabbit.
 

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I just sent a long message 're my own hysterectomy and My experience as an oncologist. Ironically, I required a hysterectomy due to cancer!! I have no time just now to rewrite and maybe by some miracle the post is hiding (riiiiiigghht!) but if you have any specific medical questions or there is anything I van do to help,let me know. Remember it is your body so ask lots of questions!! Take care!! Thinking of you and like the others,I agree there is much you will not miss. I did not do get (the oncologist in me is just too afraid and there are safer alternatives for life's necessities plus other meds now help bone development just as well and I do not mean the new classification of drugs with too many problems!!). We all have to face this as we age anyway so coping with it earlier is not that huge a deal.

Also,give yourself lots of time to heal!!!!

Good luck!!!!!
 
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