Hi Everyone, I want to thank everyone for all the wonderful support and responses I got on my little Ariel's sore heiney. I am happy to report that he is doing beautifully today. We switched him to shredded newspaper(thank you Sukie) and he along with his brother and sister love it. They first play and dig in it and have had no accidents since we changed them last night. We had been cleaning his butt with baby wipes with aloe and using vaseline 2x a day for the past 3 days and it started to look better but by this morning he looks back to normal. He still has a slight protrusion but it is very small. I do believe he was scooting his butt through the clay litter, getting litter stuck and also irritating the rectal area. He would not eat the moistened kibble so we left him on the dry which he does crunch up very good and drinks plenty of water. He is much more active now as well. His poop is more formed as well. Thank you everyone for all your wonderful advice. Had it not been for this FML I might have gone crazy already :-). Love & angel hugs Debbie & her fur crew [Posted in FML issue 3633]