How do You toilet train your cat?

Question

i saw it in a video so i know its possible, but how? any advice?

That'd be pretty neat!

Answer 1

THE LITTER BOX SHAPED AS A TOILET!

Answer 2

Empty the toilet of water. Put the a pastic trash bag in the toilet, fill it with litter. Slowly and gradually take the litter out over a couple of weeks. Eventually it will use it on its own without the litter.

Answer 3

It is totally possible to toilet train your cat! It just takes patience!

Answer 4

There is a kitty litter tray which fits your toilet. Train the cat to use the kitty litter as normal. The tray has a few fittings that slowly reduce the size of the kitty litter tray and the cat goes on as normal. slowly reducing the kitty litter tray to none. The problem most people have with this is the moving the tray back and forward while the cat learns to use the toilet and of course having to face an unflushed toilet ever time they use the loo.

but also found this http://www.karawynn.net/mishacat/toilet....

Answer 5

This is long - so be prepared.....

In the following instructions, I've used the word "rest" to mean: do nothing for a period of between a day and a week, depending on how flappable your cat is.

Ready? First start by training yourself ...

The very most important thing to remember is: Lid Up, Seat Down. Post a note on the back of the door or the lid of the toilet if you think you (or your housemates or guests) might forget. And if you are accustomed to closing the bathroom door when it's empty, you'll have to break that habit too.

Begin by moving the cat's current litter box from wherever it is to one side of the toilet. Make sure he knows where it is and uses it. Rest. Next put something — a stack of newspapers, a phone book, a cardboard box — under the litter box to raise it, say, about an inch. (Magazines are too slick; you don't want the litter box sliding around and making Felix feel insecure. Tape the litter box down if you need to.) Rest. Get another box or phone book and raise it a little higher. Rest. Continue this process until the bottom of the litter box is level with the top of the toilet seat.

At the beginning of this process, your cat could just step into the box; later he began jumping up into it, until at some point he probably started jumping up onto the toilet seat first and stepping into the box from there. You've been diligently keeping the lid up and the seat down, of course, so by now your cat is thoroughly familiar with tromping around on the open toilet.

Lift the seat on your toilet and measure the inside diameter of the top of the bowl at its widest point. Venture forth and buy a metal mixing bowl of that diameter. Do not (I discovered this the hard way) substitute a plastic bowl. A plastic bowl will not support the cat's weight and will bend, dropping into the toilet bowl and spilling litter everywhere, not to mention startling h**l out of the cat.

Now you move the litter box over so that it's sitting directly over the toilet seat. (If your cat has shown reluctance over previous changes, you might want to split this into two stages, moving it halfway onto the seat and then fully over.) Take away the stack of phone books or whatever. Rest.

Here's the cool part. Take away the litter box entirely. (Ta da!) Nestle the metal mixing bowl inside the toilet bowl and lower the seat. Fill the bowl with about two inches of litter (all of this is much easier if you have the tiny granules of litter that can be scooped out and flushed).

Naturally, any humans using the toilet at this point will want to remove the metal bowl prior to their own use and replace it afterward. The next week or two the whole process is likely to be something of an annoyance; if you begin to think it's not worth it, just remember that you will never have to clean a litter box again.

Misha's first attempt without the box. He scored two out of a possible four.Watch your cat using the bathroom in the metal bowl. Count the number of feet he gets up on the toilet seat (as opposed to down in the bowl of litter). The higher the number, the luckier you are and the easier your job is going to be ...

...because next you have to teach him proper squatting posture. Catch him beginning to use the toilet as much of the time as possible and show him where his feet are supposed to go. Just lift them right out of the bowl and place them on the seat (front legs in the middle, hind legs on the outside). If he starts out with three or, heaven forbid, all four feet in the bowl, just get the front two feet out first. Praise him all over the place every time he completes the activity in this position.

(My cat is very doglike in that he craves approval and praise. If your cat is indifferent to this sort of thing, you can also reward him with small food treats and wean him from them later when the toilet behavior has 'set.' Just keep the treats as small and infrequent as possible — half a Pounce or similar treat per occasion should be plenty.)

When he is regularly using the toilet with his front feet out (and some cats naturally start from this position), begin lifting a hind foot out and placing it on the seat outside the front paws. Felix will probably find this awkward at first and try to replace the foot in the litter. Be persistent. Move that foot four times in a row if you have to, until it stays there. Praise and/or treat. Repeat with the other hind foot, until your cat learns to balance in that squat. (There will actually be two different squats, a low one for urine elimination and a high one for bowel movements.) Once he's getting all four feet regularly on the seat, it's all downhill from here.

Which is fortunate, because the last bit is also the most unpleasant. I suggest that you postpone this stage until you have at least a weekend, and preferably several days, when you (or another responsible party) will be at home most of the time. I skipped through this part in about two days; I only hope that your cat allows you to move along that fast.

Begin reducing the litter in the bowl. Go as fast as he'll feel comfortable with, because as the litter decreases, the odor increases. You'll want to be home at this point so that you can praise him and dump out the contents of the bowl immediately after he's finished, to minimize both the smell and the possibility that your cat, in a confused attempt to minimize the smell on his own, tries to cover it up with litter that no longer exists and ends up tracking unpleasantness into the rest of the house.

By the time you're down to a token teaspoonful of litter in the bottom of the bowl, your next-door neighbors will probably be aware of the precise instant your cat has used the toilet. This is as bad as it gets. The next time you rinse out the metal bowl, put a little bit of water in the bottom. Increase the water level each time, just as you decreased the litter level. Remember — if at any point Felix looks nervous enough about the change to give the whole thing up and take his business to the corner behind the door, back up a step or two and try the thing again more slowly.

Once the water in the mixing bowl is a couple of inches deep and your cat is comfortable with the whole thing, you get to perform the last bit of magic. Take the mixing bowl away, leaving the bare toilet. (Lid Up, Seat Down.)

Voila! Your cat is now toilet-trained.

Answer 6

get a litter tray and the cat will do what its got to do naturally

Answer 7

Wow.

Answer 8

You put a piece of cardboard under the seat and put cat litter on it then you show it to them and they will start going potty in there. Then when you think they are used to it you remove the cardboard. My uncle had a cat that did that and that's what he did.

Answer 9

I just did this! It is great! Try this system: http://www.citikitty.com/

OR do what I did...Here is the website with easy instructions! Be patient, it can take about a month for your cat to fully learn.

http://www.karawynn.net/mishacat/toilet....

Answer 10

Heres a video on it :]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVR8aczbU...

and heres a link!

http://www.karawynn.net/mishacat/toilet....

Chelly: Well that's all well and good, but who says the person asking beleives in God?! Might i add, if God created everything, then your whole point there is rubbish. After all, God created the ability for them to be able to do that, he created the accessories you can buy for a cat to use the toilet, right? Nice point, but it doesn't really work now does it.

Answer 11

Stop making it use the toilet and just let it use the litter box!

Heffer

Answer 12

i saw that video as well.  the litterquitter. i am going to order it, i'll let you know how it works!

Answer 13

i hope you would litter box train your cat, not toilet train. but usually you just set a litter box out and the cat will start using it on their own. but that's just my experience

Answer 14

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Answer 15

ROTFL

Answer 16

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 17

yeah i have 4 cats and they are all toilet trained. what i did was i brought the cats into the bathroom with me when i went and eventually they caught on that you are supposed to go in the toilet instead of on the floor. also if they go on the floor then you take them into the bathroom and put them on the toilet so that way they learn.

Answer 18

Apparently you put a piece of cardboard under to seat, and pour cat litter on it.

make sure the cat knows where it is, and eventually they learn apparently.

Never tried it, but my aunt says it works.

Answer 19

That's nasty...

Answer 20

haha your funny

Answer 21

You mean on an actual toilet bowl? It's possible but is it really worth the trouble? What's the big deal about supplying a proper litter box and maintaining it regularly? The cat will be much happier that way and it's more natural for him.

Answer 22

hahahaha, thats the problem with america, they believe everything they see on TV. if it is real, then i guess u would do it the same way that u train it to use  the litter box, hahahaa

Answer 23

put them on the bowl!