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The only tricks our late kitty learned was going to the food bowl :cat:-and trying to escape going to the Vet!! :cat:
My three black cats would never be able to grasp that concept ~ they want the treats left out with their dry food dishes all day. They do know which kitchen cupboard door their moist food and treats are stored behind though!!The training tips in the article are all food based too. You just move away from the constant treat idea.
My three black cats would never be able to grasp that concept ~ they want the treats left out with their dry food dishes all day. They do know which kitchen cupboard door their moist food and treats are stored behind though!!
With their natural instinct though to scratch and cover up what's left in the litter box, I'd be afraid of them wanting to do that with the toilet and falling in!Cats are trainable. I've not tried tricks. But I have taught rules. We have had only 1 cat that refused to learn rules. Who would go out of their way to break them. LOL!
2 weeks ago I was at the pet store and noticed a training kit to teach a cat to use the toliet. I've decided to get one of those for my cat.
It starts with kittie box that looks like a toliet seat, but with litter in the middle. After a couple of weeks, that is moved to the actual toliet. After a couple of weeks, the litter container is replaced with one with a hole in the middle.
Basicly, the cat learns to set on the toleit seat to do it's business.
No litter,no mess.
While the whole process is 'cute'. I'm thinking of the cost of not having to buy litter. AND not having to change the litter. AND not having the smell of litter.
Cats are trainable. I've not tried tricks. But I have taught rules. We have had only 1 cat that refused to learn rules. Who would go out of their way to break them. LOL!
2 weeks ago I was at the pet store and noticed a training kit to teach a cat to use the toliet. I've decided to get one of those for my cat.
It starts with kittie box that looks like a toliet seat, but with litter in the middle. After a couple of weeks, that is moved to the actual toliet. After a couple of weeks, the litter container is replaced with one with a hole in the middle.
Basicly, the cat learns to set on the toleit seat to do it's business.
No litter,no mess.
While the whole process is 'cute'. I'm thinking of the cost of not having to buy litter. AND not having to change the litter. AND not having the smell of litter.
I want to add something else that is much more harmful to the cats ~ the toilet seat falling down onto the cat. This actually happened in my parents' house many years ago, and the cat (bless his heart) didn't survive. He wasn't using the toilet, just curiously looking inside the bowl after my dad had left both the seat and lid up. From that point on my mom made sure both the seat & lid were down, and so I have in my house. We also put blue chemical cleaner in the tank which comes into the bowl and could be toxic if the cats were to get in contact with it.a cautionary tail
it will be very hard if not impossible for kitty to jump up & balance on a toilet ring when he/she gets older & has arthritis/other health problems
and it will be very stressful for all involved to abruptly change kitty's facility arrangements at that point
kitty will be upset & using the rest of the house as a litterbox
human companion(s) will be even more upset & all the convenience of the earlier years will not have been worth it
:angel:
I want to add something else that is much more harmful to the cats ~ the toilet seat falling down onto the cat. This actually happened in my parents' house many years ago, and the cat (bless his heart) didn't survive. He wasn't using the toilet, just curiously looking inside the bowl after my dad had left both the seat and lid up. From that point on my mom made sure both the seat & lid were down, and so I have in my house. We also put blue chemical cleaner in the tank which comes into the bowl and could be toxic if the cats were to get in contact with it.
Thank you Up until then neither of my parents would've imagined that could've happened. I didn't mean to take away from your happy kitty pictures thread!I'm sorry to hear that. The passing of a pet is losing a member of your family like a sibling or parent. Only non pet owners don't get that.
Cats are trainable. I've not tried tricks. But I have taught rules. We have had only 1 cat that refused to learn rules. Who would go out of their way to break them. LOL!
2 weeks ago I was at the pet store and noticed a training kit to teach a cat to use the toliet. I've decided to get one of those for my cat.
It starts with kittie box that looks like a toliet seat, but with litter in the middle. After a couple of weeks, that is moved to the actual toliet. After a couple of weeks, the litter container is replaced with one with a hole in the middle.
Basicly, the cat learns to set on the toleit seat to do it's business.
No litter,no mess.
While the whole process is 'cute'. I'm thinking of the cost of not having to buy litter. AND not having to change the litter. AND not having the smell of litter.