Pets VS Children

Some days the pets are more trouble than the children. We've been having trouble with Santara. She never really liked me, the boys she avoids like the plague, she and my cat Fiona take turns tormenting the other, and add the puppy....... She started going potty outside the litter box. OK, so I let Mike talk me into putting a litter box upstairs in our bathroom so she would not have to go down to the basement, dodging the rest of the family who lives in the whole house, instead of just upstairs. Mind you, I HATE having a litter box in the bathroom, steping on litter as you walk around barefoot. Anyway, we did that for a while and she was still not using the litterbox. I finally talked Mike into a vet visit for her. The darned cat is now on anti-anxiety medicine!!!.. She has a pheremone that plugs into an outlet like an airfreshener that releases a "happy place" scent to calm her. We also have a liquid to rub inside her ear for more anti-anxiety meds. Just looking at her, you can see the change in her just from the plug in. She is much calmer and more relaxed. Darned if we probably won't have to keep the cat medicated from now on. And I still have to keep a litter box in my bathroom.