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Yay for Isabelle!  
  Paws crossed she has grown up a little and now knows what she is supposed to do.

Is she still meeting up with Chloe sometimes and starting to meet her cat companions?
 

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Too sweet. 
    Having a grown cat to curl up with and to keep her in her place if she gets a little hyper has to be good.  They look really cute together.
 
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Too sweet. 
    Having a grown cat to curl up with and to keep her in her place if she gets a little hyper has to be good.  They look really cute together.
Oh I don't know about the keeping in line if too hyper bit.   If anything Chloe is MORE hyper than Isabelle >.>.  And yes they look cute together.
 

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LoL, sounds like this pair are going to have fun together. 
   I hope your home is suitably kitty-proofed. 
 
 
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LoL, sounds like this pair are going to have fun together. 
   I hope your home is suitably kitty-proofed. 
 
Well, I hope so, there are places she can get behind that while she wont get stuck or anything, wont make me less worried she'll find a way to get into trouble.  So far though she hasn't had any problems.  I've let her run around the house.  I'm not sure what type of kitty-proofing would help really.  The main concern is wires, and we have so many that there would be no way to deal with all of them effectively without spending alot of money on ways to bind the wires up.   I can get key area's but some places I can't get behind, where she probably can.  And I don't think I want to completely limit her to my bedroom for the next 9 monthes or so.
 

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I read somewhere that you can put tabasco sauce on wires to discourage biting.
 
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I read somewhere that you can put tabasco sauce on wires to discourage biting.
I've heard all kinds of weird theories, Citrus spray, lavender, etc...  I've never really had luck with most of that plus wouldn't the tabasco sauce dry up after awhile?
 

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My daughter bought some cat deterent for our Christmas tree because the cat was biting the branches (fake tree)  It worked so well every time we touched something she had sprayed we had the awful taste on our fingers for hours.
 

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My daughter bought some cat deterent for our Christmas tree because the cat was biting the branches (fake tree)  It worked so well every time we touched something she had sprayed we had the awful taste on our fingers for hours.
  


With Mouse I just used to unplug everything I could when I was out of a room because he had a real 'thing' for cable.  If cable ran up a wall or anything for appliances up high I pinned them to the wall so he couldn't pull anything down on top of himself.  I filled gaps behind or underneath heavy furniture and appliances with rolled up towels to stop him getting in as I didn't like the idea of him getting crushed or stuck and not be able to get help.
 
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With Mouse I just used to unplug everything I could when I was out of a room because he had a real 'thing' for cable.  If cable ran up a wall or anything for appliances up high I pinned them to the wall so he couldn't pull anything down on top of himself.  I filled gaps behind or underneath heavy furniture and appliances with rolled up towels to stop him getting in as I didn't like the idea of him getting crushed or stuck and not be able to get help.
Well the problem is there are just too many wires.  I'll either have to keep her in my room for now or try the tabasco idea
 

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Many kittens and cats don't show any interest in cables so you might be lucky with her - neither of my previous cats did.   (Mouse just wants to chew anything and everything).  
 
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Many kittens and cats don't show any interest in cables so you might be lucky with her - neither of my previous cats did.   (Mouse just wants to chew anything and everything).  
She was chewing on my plugged in fan cord earlier :/  I unplugged it since I dont' use that particular fan.  My Matty chewed wires, Chloe did not.  So its a hit or miss thing apparently.
 
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Ok, I have another issue, I haen't seen little Isabelle poop in the litter.  I dn't see poop in my room, though I haven't checked outside.  I'm worried she's not pooping nad has a blockage, possibly from eating the litter?  The vet said she shouldn't have issues since I don't think she eats alot but she gets it stuck on her nose when she goes to use the litterbox.  :/  she's definatly a handful this little one haha.
 
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Ok, I have another issue, I haen't seen little Isabelle poop in the litter.  I dn't see poop in my room, though I haven't checked outside.  I'm worried she's not pooping nad has a blockage, possibly from eating the litter?  The vet said she shouldn't have issues since I don't think she eats alot but she gets it stuck on her nose when she goes to use the litterbox.  :/  she's definatly a handful this little one haha.
WELL i just answered my own question... She pooped on the carpet.....*headdesk*.  BACK INTO THE BAFROOM she goes *sigh*.
 

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   I guess she has made some progress at least.  Little mite.   Is there anything in common with where you find her pooping?  Type of location, texture she goes on, in the open or very private?  Also, have you tried her with 2 little boxes?  Some cats won't pee and poop in the same tray.

As long as your vet is still giving her a clean bill of health it may be that she is feeling anxious still with being little and in a new home and worth trying something like Feliway if you haven't got it already. It isn't a quick cure though, I find it helps but takes a few days to really bed in and the effects are subtle.  
 
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   I guess she has made some progress at least.  Little mite.   Is there anything in common with where you find her pooping?  Type of location, texture she goes on, in the open or very private?  Also, have you tried her with 2 little boxes?  Some cats won't pee and poop in the same tray.

As long as your vet is still giving her a clean bill of health it may be that she is feeling anxious still with being little and in a new home and worth trying something like Feliway if you haven't got it already. It isn't a quick cure though, I find it helps but takes a few days to really bed in and the effects are subtle.  
No, there isn't anything of significance, she poops near the wall right next to the litterbox, it's all carpet and it's open in view.  I tried before with 2 boxes but she would just poop right next to each of them.  I haven't taken her to the vet recnelty but she's due to get taken by the foster woman to get her shots.  I can have the vet check her but I'm pretty sure she's still healthy.  Plus she doesn't seem shy or scared around the house aside from the occasional noise she doesn't recognize.  She has run leaps and bounds around our full home, and to my knowledge she hasn't pooped.  She would even come all the way back into my room to pee.  So at the very LEAST she has the peeing down :p.
 

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Will she use paper if you put it down in the spot she uses to poop?   I previously had a female cat that wouldn't poop in her tray after she had a UTI and the bad experience meant she would only go in for the pee she found painful after that.  It only takes one scary or painful experience to throw a cat sometimes.   I always figured I was lucky my cat used the tray for her pee as that would have been way harder to contain and clean up.  With Isabelle being so young I am confident you will manage to figure out what it is that's confusing her or putting her off using the tray other than for pee.
 
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