Ruth Ann raised a good question yesterday about males not being perticular about litter boxes as females. I was wondering, because we just got Samson a few weeks ago. He is very difficult to train, and Abi, our female, was easy as pie! I have come up with my own little hypothesis about this...(and please forgive me if this sounds crude) I think that because the males genitals for urinating are not in the same place on their little bodies as where they poop, they may not be reaching the litter pan if they only have to urinate. Does that make sense? In our case, we have litter only in a corner pan (shaped like a triangle), not covering the whole floor (for that we have a lovely collection of old towels). So when Samson climbs in the pan to go, he scootches his little behind in the corner, but he still ends up urinating on the towel because his body is too long. Once in a while he stands sideways (corner to corner), but rarely. Abi (our female) scootches her little behind in the corner and goes, and it all lands in the same place! We've decided bigger litter pans are in our future since it's obvious Samson is going to be way bigger than Abi and her tiny pans aren't gonna do it for him. Enough on that subject (how embarassing!) Heather & Conrad, Abi & Samson. [Posted in FML issue 1322]