Having problems capturing and sending all input, problem may be cin.ignore()?

[struntz]

Hello everyone!
i'm back, same project, different problem

Alright, When the user enters the input in the console, i used cin.getline(discription,101); This is just 1 example of what i used, and when i check out the output file, the first letter of the input is missing! Here is the code, and i also am attaching the output file... so u can see for yourself! here is the code for the addRecord();

void Animal::addRecord()
{
    ofstream outfile("inventory.txt",ios::ate);
    if(!outfile)
    {
        cout<<"Unable to write to file\n";
    }
    else
    {
        
        cout <<"Type: ";
        cin.ignore();
        cin.getline(type,31);
        
        
        cout <<"health: ";
        cin.ignore();
        cin.getline(health,101);
        

        cout <<"Age: ";
        cin >> age;

        cout <<"Sex: ";
        cin >> sex;
        
        
        cout <<"Discription: ";
        cin.ignore();
        cin.getline(discript,101); 
        

        
        cout <<"Location: ";
        cin.ignore();
        cin.getline(location,51);
        
        
        cout <<"Other: ";
        cin.ignore();
        cin.getline(other,101); 
        
    
        //output to file
        outfile <<"Type: " << type 
                <<" Health: " << health 
                <<" Age: " << age
                << " Sex: " << sex 
                <<" Discription: " << discript 
                <<" Location: " << location
                <<" Other: " << other << "\n\n";

    }
    outfile.close();

} 

Here is the class data members

private:
	int age;
	char type[30];
	char health[100];
	char sex;
	char discript[100];			
	char location[50];			
	char other[100];

I had to add taht cin.ignore, so it would prompt the user for each feild, such as: Type: German Shedpard [enter] Health: Good [enter] etc... , if you take them out, it will skip and do,
Type: Health: Good [enter], etc....
I have a feeling its skippping the first character of some of the lines, is becuase i put cin.ignore(); but if i take it out, it will cause even more damange, anyone have any suggestions on what i did wrong here is the output file...
As you can see, it cut off, in Location: it should say, Brockway or Dubois, PA, but insteed it says rockway,PA and ubois,PA


Thanks for listening