How to Successfully Litter Train Your Cat

Litter training your cat is perhaps one of the most important things to train your cat as early as possible. This helps to stop any unnecessary accidents in the home and makes your life a lot simpler at the same time. So just how do you litter train a cat? Well luckily it is usually fairly easy to do.

Litter Training Your New Cat

Providing your new cat or kitten with a litter box is vital if you want them to become housetrained. However, simply just providing the litter tray is not enough to show your cat or kitten that it is their special place to relieve themselves. Litter training a cat or kitten is the same as housetraining a puppy or a new dog – you have to pay attention to their needs.

Usually before your cat or kitten relieves themselves, they first sniff the ground and look for a suitable place to do what they need to do. Cats are not like dogs in the fact that when cats do relieve themselves, they like to cover it up and do it privately. So there should be some amount of walking around sniffing the ground before any mess is made. As soon as you notice this behavior, you should place them in the litter tray and they should do whatever they need to do in that litter tray. However, it is not always that simple.

At first your cat may not want to go in the litter tray, but if you are positive that the cat definitely needs to go to the toilet then just keep persisting and placing them in the litter tray. They will eventually learn that the litter tray is the place where they need to relieve themselves. It does not take long for the cat or kitten to learn and as long as you place the litter tray in a private place where they know where it is, they should go to it every time that they need to relieve themselves.

One problem which you may notice is that when the litter tray is dirty, your cat will not want to relieve itself in the actual tray. Cats are really clean animals and so their litter tray does need to be kept as clean as possible. Every time that your cat has used their litter tray for any other purpose other than urinating, it is advisable to clear it up as soon as possible.
Overall litter training a cat or kitten is fairly easy, just as long as you take notice of when your cat wants to relieve themselves.

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