I'm not sure at ALL how Mavis (we did decide on the name Mavis) has urine on her? I can see how she would get it on her underside/skirt area, well she has it on her sides and her back? She came to me already with a dingier looking coat. The only thing I can come up with is that she pees and then starts to scratch and scratches the urine up on her body? Her being white, I notice every single drop of anything on her quickly. I couldn't leave her like that so I did give her a bath, you wouldn't believe her water! It was so yellow and nasty I think she was covered in old urine when she came to me as her coat was already so dingy looking on her back and underside areas.
Her cage is lined with fleece, besides her little litterbox area which is carefresh ultra bedding in a cardboard shoebox, which I have noticed her sitting in quite a bit today. I know the fleece is not letting the urine sit on top of it, I took her fleece out today and washed it and to be honest I can barely tell that she has peed besides I can feel just a VERY VERY little dampness, and I can see the whitish spots (calcium deposits?) ...which I had seen mentioned on this site in passing through threads.
Any Ideas? and should I be concerned about the white stuff in her urine?
Right now I have her on the stuff that she was on in her previous home, it has all that extra junk in it and I have been watching her she only eats the red and green dyed circles and not the pellets. I was hoping to find a better price on oxbow pellets then the amount they want at my local pet store and I also didn't want to make an immediate change as shes already going through so many changes in her new home. But, looks like I might need to and ASAP!
Her cage is lined with fleece, besides her little litterbox area which is carefresh ultra bedding in a cardboard shoebox, which I have noticed her sitting in quite a bit today. I know the fleece is not letting the urine sit on top of it, I took her fleece out today and washed it and to be honest I can barely tell that she has peed besides I can feel just a VERY VERY little dampness, and I can see the whitish spots (calcium deposits?) ...which I had seen mentioned on this site in passing through threads.
Any Ideas? and should I be concerned about the white stuff in her urine?
Right now I have her on the stuff that she was on in her previous home, it has all that extra junk in it and I have been watching her she only eats the red and green dyed circles and not the pellets. I was hoping to find a better price on oxbow pellets then the amount they want at my local pet store and I also didn't want to make an immediate change as shes already going through so many changes in her new home. But, looks like I might need to and ASAP!