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Cat Person · 09-05-2010, 03:03 PM

Hi Cindley,

First of all it sounds like you take good care of your cats.

It also seems to me like you used your knowledge of cat care regarding your new Norwegien Forest cats. Since you kept the same litter as the cats where used to it seems unlikely they would be avioding the litter box due to litter aversion. The safe room you set up for your new kittens sounds great to me as well. Your litter boxes set up in the safe room sounds perfect to me as well.

My only suggestion is maybe try an even LARGER litter box since you said they where almost the size of full sized cats, despite being kittens. They might have no problem entering the box but they still might like a bigger box.

Lastly you said Max your male kitten never missed the litter box but your female Sophie has missed the box two to five times is that correct? If so try keeping her in a small bathroom for 48 hours with a litter box and see if that helps.

*** I feel it is also important to note that the URI might be causing the aberrant litter box behavior. But you want to redirect her to the litter box due to the fact it could be become a behavioral pattern (litter box avoidance) even after the medical issue has passed***

09-05-2010, 03:03 PM	#13 (permalink)
Cat Person Banned Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 24	Hi Cindley, First of all it sounds like you take good care of your cats. It also seems to me like you used your knowledge of cat care regarding your new Norwegien Forest cats. Since you kept the same litter as the cats where used to it seems unlikely they would be avioding the litter box due to litter aversion. The safe room you set up for your new kittens sounds great to me as well. Your litter boxes set up in the safe room sounds perfect to me as well. My only suggestion is maybe try an even LARGER litter box since you said they where almost the size of full sized cats, despite being kittens. They might have no problem entering the box but they still might like a bigger box. Lastly you said Max your male kitten never missed the litter box but your female Sophie has missed the box two to five times is that correct? If so try keeping her in a small bathroom for 48 hours with a litter box and see if that helps. * I feel it is also important to note that the URI might be causing the aberrant litter box behavior. But you want to redirect her to the litter box due to the fact it could be become a behavioral pattern (litter box avoidance) even after the medical issue has passed* Last edited by marie73; 09-05-2010 at 05:56 PM.