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Friday, July 13, 2007

Toilet Training Your Cat

Toilet Training Cat The Easy Way by Luke Blaise

By using incremental training it is easy to train your cat to use a human toilet. Why? Imagine if you never had to worry about cleaning the litter box again or lugging large boxes of litter home from the grocery store.

Lots of people have already trained their cats to use a human toilet saving them lots of time and money. One of the best part of all of this is you no longer need to have space for regular litter box, giving you extra space in small apartments and condos.

The easiest way to train your cat to use a human toilet is to use incremental training. What is incremental training? Incremental training is slowly molding your cat's behavior into the actions that you want. This can be done over the course of a couple of weeks. The most important thing to remember when doing this is to take the process really slowly and do not rush your cat at all.
To train your cat to use a human toilet start by slowly moving the litter box closer and closer to your toilet. You need to move it slowly over the course of a week or two to help your cat get used to using the litter box next to the toilet.

Once your cat has been using the litter box next to the toilet for a couple of weeks, slowly start to raise the litter box up, a little each week until the height is the same as the toilet seat.
After a couple of weeks of this you can move the litter box on top of the toilet and then insert a litter box that sits into the rim of the toilet. Once your cat gets used to using the sunken litter box in the toilet, remove it and your job should be done.

The most important thing to remember when toilet training your cat is to take it slowly and by slowly that means weeks, and two days.

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1 comments:

neverfull said...

toilet training a cat is not simple, nor easy and can take up to 6 months to a year. the method described here is way too simplistic. cats need litter to be phased out and they need to gradually get used to having water underneath them. they also have to learn correct paw positioning.

i have a cat toilet training blog as i am currently toilet training my 5 month old kitten. there is good detailed information here and links to helpful resources and other methods.

http://www.freewebs.com/myhellokitten

cheers,
jenny

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