WOW, that's so cool that you're doing it all by yourself
The thing that excited me the MOST is when you said:
"Funny thing though, since I took the carpet up, Venus has been going on the pee pads 100%!!"
OMG Luna and Izzy have decided that THE place to pee is my bedroom carpet
PEEYOOO!!!! So this weekend its coming up and the concrete below will be soaked and scrubbed with urine remover. Not sure what's going there yet, and I don't even CARE
As long as they stop peeing on the floor and go on their pee pads
Good luck with the rest of your project
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