You love your cat, the way she sits in your lap and purrs, her silly little tricks, and the unconditional love that she has for you. Cleaning her litter, well, that’s something else again.
No one likes cleaning a dirty smelly litter box. The litter box can present a health risk, especially to pregnant women, and it stinks. Litter is expensive and presents an environmental hazard. You don’t have to be a professional animal trainer to train your cat to use the toilet!
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With the right techniques, anyone can do it. Potty training! your cat eliminates a dirty job, a health hazard, and banishes the smelly litter box forever. Professional trainers suggest the following method for training your cat.
The Litter Box
If your litter box isn’t already in your bathroom, move it to the bathroom. Do this gradually, a little each day until the litter box is in the bathroom. It will take some time to train your cat, but the first step is to get the cat into the bathroom. Raise the box off the floor gradually, you can stack books or other solid objects under it. Continue raising the box until it is level with the toilet. As you are raising the box, put less and less! litter in it. The box needs to be well anchored so your cat can’t knock it over.
After the litter box has been raised even with the height of the toilet, move it closer to the toilet by increments, a little at a time. You are trying to get the cat to understand that the toilet is a litter box. Moving the litter box as close to the toilet as possible will help. Keep using smaller and smaller amounts of litter each day so the cat becomes accustomed to not having much litter. When you reach a point where there is less than an inch of litter in the box, you can stop reducing the amount.
Switching From Box To Toilet
The final step in training your cat to use the toilet is to put a litter pan over the toilet , but under the seat.
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You can use any pan the will fit, or you can buy a special training pan at your local or online pet store. Put less than an inch of flushable litter in the pan. Make sure the pan is secure and won’t slide around and scare the cat. If you can’t find a training aid pan, or don’t want to spend the money on one, use duct tape to secure the pan in place.
The last step in training your cat to use the toilet is to cut a hole in the litter pan. Start with a small hole and gradually increase the size. Some toilet training aids may have sections that can be removed. Eventually, as the hole becomes larger, the cat will become accustomed to not having any litter. When the hole in the cat pan is almost as large as the toilet opening, its time to remove the pan. This training process is slow and will probably take several weeks or more to complete. This takes patience on your part, since cats don’t like change.
Don’t expect Fluffy to flush, that’s another training lesson!
