Teach Your Cat to Use the Toilet!
It’s not difficult to learn how to toilet train your cat if you have the patience to go through every single step. Really, it’s quite easy. It may take only a couple of weeks or at most a few months. Going through each of the phases slowly is important if you want to make sure your cat will take to the new arrangements.
Cat toilet training is certainly something you ought to at least attempt. Teaching your cat to use the toilet will not only save money on cat litter, your house will smell better without a litter box, and you’ll be helping the environment. If you’re interested in giving it a try, here are some guidelines to help you.
The first thing you must do is to shift the litter box gradually so that the cat learns to do its business in a new room. Thus, you want to shift the litter box in increments. It might take a while, but it’s the best way to teach your cat that there’s a new place where it will do its business. Try moving the box an inch or so at a time to start. You can increase or reduce the rate of movement depending on your cat’s reaction.
Now that the box is positioned alongside the toilet, the next move is to increase the height. Slowly build up the base so that the litter box is eventually the same height as the toilet. Before you do so, make sure that the box is tightly attached to the base. You cat will have to leap up to use it, and you don’t want it to tip over. Phonebooks and cement bricks are good options for this foundation. After the base is at the same height as the toilet and the cat is accustomed to utilizing the box at this height, you want to shift it nearer and nearer to the toilet, and then gradually slide it over until it’s on top of the toilet. The entire time, you should be reducing the quantity of litter progressively so that there’s only about an inch of it remaining.
You’re now ready to move to the last step of this operation. Substitute the litter box with an aluminum pan that you fasten to the toilet. Eventually, you’ll get rid of the litter entirely and cut a small hole in the bottom of the tray. Slowly start to enlarge the hole, until eventually your cat is only using the toilet!