How To Train Your Cat To Use The Toilet
Can you train your cat to use the toilet. and by doing this it will save you a lot of time and money. as there will be little or no mess at all.
Once your cat has been trained properly to go into the toilet, and you will be able to eliminate all the cat litter and the nasty smell associated with cats. you will however you need a few basic items to get you started. A roll of aluminum foil, a tray, and cat litter preferably flush-able kitty litter.
The good thing about this is you will not have to clean the litter tray box again and it will save you money on not having to buy the litter bags any more to go into the trays.
You need to decide is which toilet you have in the house you will want to use. And in addition to this, what toilet in the house the cat will be using. If you have got two toilets in the house it maybe however a lot easier to train than if, you only have in your house one toilet.
Now you will have to use the aluminum tray to put on the toilet. As with the two toilets in your house, you can just leave the tray right in the toilet and not have to remove it at all when you or anybody in your house need to use the toilet. But on the other hand. If you have only one toilet, it is not going to be that convenient to share the toilet with your cat.
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As with this you will just have to remove the tray whenever you want to use the toilet. Be sure to leave the seat in the down position and the lid in the up position for the training period.
You can leave a note on the toilet if you want for guests to know so that your cat does not make a mess on the floor if the lid is down. Replace the cats litter tray with an aluminum-cooking tray.
The aluminum tray should be the right size so it can fit in the toilet. Having the seat lid should be able to close so that the seat lid holds the tray in place. Don’t forget to close the lid. The results may not be less than attractive. OK start moving the tray closer and closer to the toilet so that the cat will be using.
Be sure not to move it at all when the cat does not know it is there. once the litter tray is in the bathroom put something about an inch thick right under the tray.
Newspapers or magazines are a very bad choice for this. the magazines are slick and the litter tray could accidentally fall over.
Carry on so that you start to raise the litter tray around about an inch every day until the litter tray is the on the same level as the toilet is. The cat will then be able to just step into the litter tray at first.
You raise the litter tray, the cat will have to jump Into the tray. And as well You may want to secure the tray tight so it does not move at all when the cat jumps into the litter tray.
This will let the cat know what its for its there by scraping its claws in the tray. And if there is, no litter in the tray the cat will be confused as hell so without stressing the cat and it will not understand what is going on.
After you put the tray is in the toilet, you can start using cat litter, which will be flush able. So if you Are Using flush able kitty litter, you will not have any or little mess to clean up.
You will need to continue to leave the tray in there for about 3 weeks or so.
During this time you can start to reduce the litter you have in the tray and make just a 1" diameter hole in the tray.
Every week, just make the hole 1/2" bigger. and If the cat starts to mess on the floor then the cat is will be trying to let you know that you are moving to fast. If your cat Is slightly heavy, then try to use two trays to hold the cats weight.
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Also you may want to wait before you start to train your cat until it has reached at least 6 months old. With cats younger than that they cannot balance well and may end up this could start to being a big big problem for you.
Don’t Just get discouraged as this process can take you up to two to three months to master. The cat will start with just two paws on the tray.
As the hole you have put into the tray just gets bigger by 1/2" per week it will then start to move its third leg to the toilet seat. And finally, the cat will have all its four legs on the seat. And with some cats who cannot just grip the seat that well.
If your cat is going to be the only one to use that toilet, you might as well start putting some kind of tape so it can grip to on the lid of the seat.
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