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10-04-2009, 12:03 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Toilet Training a Cat
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Yes, I know they did it in Meet the Parents.
Anyhow, we're going to start training our cat to use the toilet instead of the litterbox.
The cat already has a fair share of "accidents" often based around its litterbox being not clean enough for it, so I figure, why not try remove the litterbox issue entirely?
Anyone here tried it? Am I doomed to failure?
Am I wrong to find this image intensely satisfying? (not my cat). 
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10-04-2009, 12:12 PM
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10-04-2009, 12:16 PM
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10-04-2009, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by john turner  | Yeah, read a few websites, watched a couple videos. Too cheap to actually drop money on any of the kits, ebooks, or dvd's. I think I've got the gist of it though:
1) litterbox in bathroom next to toilet.
2) Slowly raise litterbox to tolilet height
3) ????
4) Profit!
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10-04-2009, 12:20 PM
| | You don't want to do that. Trust me. Forum Administrator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: atlanta ga | | | from what i've heard, folks use a cardboard box and put the box on top of the toilet, changing the litter to flushable paper-based litter. then they put a small hole in the middle of the box. over time they increase the size of the hole, along with decreasing the height of the box, until the box is just a flat platter with a hole in the middle the size of the toilet seat. then you just loose the box entirely, and there ya go.
a lot of folks even say that the cat, wanting to scratch at things, will actually flush the toilet.
if i wasn't so lazy i'd try to train my cats this way.
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10-04-2009, 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Unrepresented ... Am I wrong to find this image intensely satisfying? (not my cat). | Yes. 
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10-04-2009, 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by john turner from what i've heard, folks use a cardboard box and put the box on top of the toilet, changing the litter to flushable paper-based litter. then they put a small hole in the middle of the box. over time they increase the size of the hole, along with decreasing the height of the box, until the box is just a flat platter with a hole in the middle the size of the toilet seat. then you just loose the box entirely, and there ya go.
a lot of folks even say that the cat, wanting to scratch at things, will actually flush the toilet.
if i wasn't so lazy i'd try to train my cats this way. | Interesting. Reading I've done suggested using aluminum (or aluminium for the brits here) pans because otherwise the weaker boxes will bend and cause kitty to fall in the toilet, causing setbacks.
Hadn't read about the increasing hole, the suggestions I've read suggested slowly reducing litter and then slowly replacing it in the bowl/pan with water.
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10-04-2009, 01:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA. | | | I trained my fish to pee/poop in their water. It was easy.
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10-04-2009, 06:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | I did this with two Himalayans, but sometimes they would just go in the tub. They seldom flushed afterwards. |
10-04-2009, 08:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Lone Star State | | | this one of those things that seems like a good idea at first, but you should think it through a bit...
what if you really, really, have to go, you've been holding it in the car the whole til you made it home, you rush for the john, and - you guessed it - the cat is there doing his business...
did you think of that? |
10-04-2009, 08:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ky | | Did this years ago after seeing the show 'Real people' on television:
*raise both lids
*spread newspaper over bowl
*lower 1st lid (seat)
*spread cat litter lightly over paper
*Introduce cat to new arrangement
This obviously is easiest w/ a two+ toilet household. Expect that the cat may step on the paper and go south- but you would be surprised- they get it quickly. Once the cat goes on the paper remove the primary litter box. After a few weeks they will be gtg w/o the paper/litter...
The 'Real People' cat could also flush the toilet- I never really worked on that one  |
10-04-2009, 08:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Frozen North | | | Man, I've been trying to convince my girlfriend to let me do this since we got the cat a year and a half ago.
I HATE litterbox stink and she sucks at remembering to clean it.
Maybe you could convince her for me. |
10-04-2009, 10:20 PM
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10-05-2009, 05:05 AM
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10-05-2009, 04:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Southern New Jersey | | | Funny - I'm reading this thread and realize the ad at the top is for kitty litter...
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