It's hard work, but it goes like this (over a couple of months!) only move onto the next step when the cat is comfortable
1. move the litter box next to the toilet
2. slowly raise it to toilet height
3. put it over the toilet seat
4. make an insert for the toilet with litter in, and small hole for drainage
(i used a sheet of 5mm pvc iirc, and a heat gun to mould it into a bowl that sat over the rim of the bowl)
5. slowly use less litter
6. when there's no litter left, make the hole slightly bigger
7. keep repeating making the hole slightly bigger
8. when the hole is full size, take the insert away
1 cat hated it, I think the splashing noise scared him.
The other didn't mind.
The youngest loved it.
In the end I went back to the litter tray as it was distressing cat 1 too much.
The worst thing about this training is it takes months, and I only had one toilet, and removing the inset litter tray was a huge pita!
There was something quite odd about going to the toilet and it being occupied by a cat though!
Here's a pic of cat3, happy as larry. Even after I put the litter tray back he carried on using the toilet for a few weeks
Both my previous cat & my current both had/have a nasty habit of walking off from the litter tray before they've completely finished their "Number Twos".
I'd be fearful that if they were toilet trained there'd be some nasty surprises on the seat or the bathroom floor.
I'm sure there's a dark brown side to the glamour of potty trained kitties which we don't see.
I considered doing this with my cat, but from reading up on it, it sounds like its not less mess because cats don't understand the concept of aiming into the toilet... Maybe it depends on the size of the cat though?
I'm going to try teach my cat to fetch using clicker training. When she was a kitten, she used to fetch things I threw and then drop them at my feet.
I have strays from backyard that get to stay in when it is very nasty out. There guys are not trained but uncannily each has managed to somehow id the bathtub as the 'emergency place'.
Every cat I've ever had has been like this; if their litter box is full or for some other reason they don't want to use it, it's always the tub. I think it has something to do with the relative privacy the high bathtub walls afford them.
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I'm trying to think of a useful thing to teach a cat, using this technique, that would be helpful at home.
1. Cat looks at bug tracker
2. Cat approaches bug tracker
3. Cat selects ticket in bug tracker
4. Cat implements fix for bug in ticket
5. Cat rebases
6. Cat pushes to GitHub
I could never get through step 5 :/ Stupid cat.
My cat just forks the project because I reject the bird animation PRs... you know what they say, cats don't have owners, they have upstream.
7. Yell at Cat for breaking the build and then Cat just walks off and goes to sleep.
I'm going to use it to train my cat to close doors after she opens them!
Some people train their cats to use the toilet instead of a litter box, using similar methods. Less mess and no litter to buy.
I did this when I had 3 cats a while back.
It's hard work, but it goes like this (over a couple of months!) only move onto the next step when the cat is comfortable
1 cat hated it, I think the splashing noise scared him. The other didn't mind. The youngest loved it.In the end I went back to the litter tray as it was distressing cat 1 too much.
The worst thing about this training is it takes months, and I only had one toilet, and removing the inset litter tray was a huge pita!
There was something quite odd about going to the toilet and it being occupied by a cat though!
Here's a pic of cat3, happy as larry. Even after I put the litter tray back he carried on using the toilet for a few weeks
https://thisaintnews.com/static/user/pics/1219881600/1220319...
I think it would work best if I had 2 toilets, so it wasn't such an effort for me and guests to use it, and if there was only 1 cat instead of 3.
It's too much work trying to train 3 cats to use it at the same time, and to convince them the floor is not a better option
Both my previous cat & my current both had/have a nasty habit of walking off from the litter tray before they've completely finished their "Number Twos".
I'd be fearful that if they were toilet trained there'd be some nasty surprises on the seat or the bathroom floor.
I'm sure there's a dark brown side to the glamour of potty trained kitties which we don't see.
I considered doing this with my cat, but from reading up on it, it sounds like its not less mess because cats don't understand the concept of aiming into the toilet... Maybe it depends on the size of the cat though?
I'm going to try teach my cat to fetch using clicker training. When she was a kitten, she used to fetch things I threw and then drop them at my feet.
I have strays from backyard that get to stay in when it is very nasty out. There guys are not trained but uncannily each has managed to somehow id the bathtub as the 'emergency place'.
Every cat I've ever had has been like this; if their litter box is full or for some other reason they don't want to use it, it's always the tub. I think it has something to do with the relative privacy the high bathtub walls afford them.
I've seen cats use the shower too.