Cat toilet training

[buttercups.nest]

We are moving into a main floor suite...we have two kids, and two cats. There is no basement that we can gate off....then toilet training for your cat popped up on Kijiji.

I think its a great idea...makes sense to me. Has anyone ever done this before? Had success with it?

Thanks!

[bluets]

I've had more success getting my cat to drink out of the toilet...

[Purple*Lotus]

I had a friend who managed to do this. But it took weeks and your toilet is basically out of order because you have to keep the cat litter on the plastic wrap. What a mess.

[sapphire_chan]

looking into that is what made me learn about EC which is what lead me to MDC.

If you can't get cat toilet training to work
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=291147.0

[dogretro]

I did this many years ago w/ two older kittens & it was easy! This is the exact method I and my roommate at the time followed: http://www.karawynn.net/mishacat/toilet.html There was no plastic wrap in the toilet, just a metal bowl that was easy to lift out and put back in when we used the toilet ourselves.

NOW, I will say the following: Neither cat took to it 100%, so we did eventually give it up. The male cat had no problem squatting on the seat & peeing in the toilet, but he HATED pooping in the toilet. He had a v high need to dig before pooping & he couldn't really dig in the water. The female cat never did master the squat; she always put her hind feet back into the metal bowl, even after we lifted them out. She was half Manx, so it may have been the lack of tail for balance, idk. At any rate, we still kept it up w/ just an empty metal bowl in the toilet, no big deal, the male could still "dig", female could keep her feet down, dump and flush. Easier than cleaning a litter box. UNTIL we discovered that the female was pooping behind the tub. Well, then we had to stop.

I would absolutely try it were I you. If it doesn't work, well, you tried. If it does, awesome! The male cat would still, for years afterward, on occasion, if the toilet lid was up, he'd pee in the toilet, lol!

[delightedbutterfly]

I did. And was sucessful for a while...

I used a technique similar to the link above. But I didn't slowly raise the litter box. And I didn't use a bowl... I used a tinfol throw away roasting pan...

And I put it under the seat and you put in your flushable litter and then every couple days cut a hole in the roasting pan so that it slowly gets larger...

Then the cat thinks he is peeing/pooping in the pan but it really is the toilet.

My cat never had problems with his legs falling in. But I did this over a period of time just before I was off work and while off work and he was doig really well... Then when I went back to work he was still using it... Until he found a black bean bag chair I had and realized that it sounded and felt just like his litter...

So for over a week I kept walking in the house and smelling cat urine but he was still using the toilet at the same time... I would search and search and couldn't find anything and then saw him one day.. *shudder*

but it did work