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Why should you toilet train your cats?

 

1) You will save on kitty litter.

2) It will be a very good idea if you intent to have a baby in future. You will be advise not to handle cat feces with your bare hands. If your cats are toilet trained, you will just need to flush the toilet. More articles about toxoplasmosis here, here, here, here, here & here.

What you need?
1) a water closet.
2) patience.
3) It will be good if you have a toilet for the cats only while training them.
4) patience.
5) kitty litter, you may want to consider those that are flushable.
6) patience.
7) litter box.
8) patience.
9) plastic sieve
10) lots and lots of patience


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Instructions on cat toilet training 

Let's start the training step by step

Instructions:

 1) Put your cat's litter box beside the water closet. Allow one or two weeks before you make any changes. You may shorten this waiting period if your cat is already used to having the tray in the toilet.

2) This is optional. You may try getting one of those replacable wc flip, place her litter box below the wc flip so that the litter box will look like one of the wc but it is lower. I did not try doing this but I think it is helpful. If you do this step, allow another one or two weeks before you try the next steps.

3) Raise the height of the litter box slowly by attaching old phone books or something similar one by one. Make sure that the litter box will not fall when your cat jump onto the box. If you are using thick phone books, add only one book each week. Add them until the litter box reaches the height of the water closet. It may take months just to do that. If your cat stop using the litter box at any point, reduce the litter box height and allow more waiting time before you decide to raise it again.

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 Do not encourage your cat to poo on the floor, you will have bigger headache when they realise that it is much easier to do their nature call on the floor.

4) If your cat finds it really difficult to jump into the litter box when it is high, place a "stepping stone" beside the litter box. My cats are 3 years old so they do not require a "stepping stone".

5) Measure the internal hole of your water closet. Shop for a plastic sieve which allow you to cut them easily. Placed the sieve into the water closet as shown in the picture. Keep the closet flip down. Pour some kitty litters into the sieve. Remove the litter box completely. Keep the "stepping stone" next to the water closet if you are using one. Do not clap your hands and scream with joy when you first spot your cat using the water closet. You may frighten them and send them a wrong message. Hold your breathe and praise them when they have finish their nature call.

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 If your cat decided not to use the water closet at this point, quickly bring back your "high" litter box and placed it beside the closet. Keep the sieve with some kitty litter. Allow more time for the cat to adjust the different.

6) Reduce the kitty litter in the sieve slooooooowly until you dun need to use them at all.

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You will have to keep the sieve clean most of the time to encourage your cat to use it. Brownie refuse to use the water closet when he sees feces on the sieve, he was a very clean cat.

7) Cut some tiny holes in the sieve. Be careful not to cut a hole too big that they refuse to use the water closet because they see the water inside. You may have to buy a new sieve if this happen.

8) Increase the size of the cutted holes in the bowl slooooowly. They have to learn to see their droppings actually dropped down to the water in the water closet.

9) Remove the sieve when the holes you have cutted are as big as the water closet hole. Congratulation, your cats are toilet trained.

 

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Do not give up after you have started training your cats. 

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My experience with cats toilet training was not as smooth sailing. Halfway through my cats toilet training, my cats decided that it is much easier to do their nature call on the floor than the water closet. I was not in the house to oversee the process and my husband got no idea what I was trying to do. My cats ended up pooing on my toilet floor for a whole year.

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After I was officially moved into the house, I told myself not to give up with my cat's toilet training. They have been urinating on the sieve on the water closet but pooing on my toilet floor. I covered the areas where they pooed with pails and stuffs until it was impossible to poo on the floor. Brownie was very stubborn, he will poo anywhere on the toilet floor which are not covered. I have all my entire tubs and pails in my toilet then. I even put Brownie favourite bed (I brought it from in New Zealand) in the toilet. I was really heart broken when I saw him doing his nature call on his own bed.

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I did not give up. For whole of 6 months, my cat's toilet floor has been filled up with all sort of stuffs. I was able to remove the stuffs one by one each week and they are doing their nature call on the water closet. Dun give up! Success will come one day.

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Cats' Toilet Training Group
This list is for the discussion of training cats to use toilets rather than litter boxes. Group discussion provides support and information to persons now training or who have completed training their cats.
Toilet Training vs Kitty Litterx
Article by Lin Komula helps you to decide if you want to toilet train your cats.
How to Toilet Train Your Cat
Another step by step article on how to toilet train your cats.
Toilet Training For Cats Made Easy
Another site with instruction on how to training cats to use the water closet.
How to Toilet Train Your Cat
Another toilet training for cats site.
Charles Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program
Another one.
Toilet Cat Training Book
This book is an easy to read and funny intructional tool for toilet training your cat.
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Kitty Goes Potty
A commerical site with an article on how to train cats to go toilet. They even have cute videos on cats going to potty.

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