Sunday, March 7, 2010

How can i make my kitten , go to the bath room in the toilet?

I think you mean in the litter box? I hope you have one for the kitty. If you see her in the act of going to the bathroom pick her up quickly and take her to the litter box. She will get the hang of it, and will eventually go there automatically.How can i make my kitten , go to the bath room in the toilet?
why are you against a litter box that is natural for cats. geeze, lazy people that want cats but don't want to clean a litter box. litter boxes are not that hard to clean.How can i make my kitten , go to the bath room in the toilet?
OMG i want to train my cat to do that too....





however i was walking with my cat when she was a kitten and flushed a toliet and she freaked out so whenever she hears a toliet flush she gets scared...
It takes weeks to train your cat to actually use the toilet. I remember way back reading an article on Petco or PetsMart online that mention using plastic wrap over the toilet and having the litter box right beside it. It was pretty involved. Maybe I can still find links.
We have nine kittys, and none of them go to the bathroom in inappropriate places. 7 of them we trapped wild and tamed, all are indoor kittys. I hope you are talking about training your kitty to go to the bathroom in a litter box, as training it to go to the bathroom in the toilet is a long process, and the kitty must be litter trained first anyway.


The first rule to remember is this: Kittys hate to eat where they go to the bathroom. If the cat food is next to the litter box, your kitty would rather go to the bathroom somewhere else than starve, so that is what they will do. Get a good litter box, fill it with 2 - 3 inches of litter, and put it either on the opposite side of the room from where the food is, or in a different room from where the food is. You wouldn't want to eat on the floor next to your toilet - neither do they.


Secondly, clean all areas where your kitty has gone to the bathroom inappropriately with a product that breaks down the enzyme that causes cat odors. You can get such a product at most pet stores.


Thirdly, remember rule #1. Kittys do not like to ';go'; where they eat, so, for the time being, put down small bowls of food everywhere where the kitty has ';gone'; inappropriately. By walls, on the bed (on newspapers or plastic), in the plants, wherever. Keep those bowls filled consistently for the next few weeks, until the inappropriate behavior stops.


A note: The kitty usually recognizes the bed as a sleeping place, and if she is going on your bed it means she is trying to tell you she is unhappy with something. Often, moving her food from next to the litter box to another room will solve this, but often it is also because the litter either doesn't have enough litter in it, or because it isn't cleaned often enough. Kittys are very clean, and they feel really dirty when they have to go in a dirty litter box. This can also cause a form of feline depression. Keep that litter box scooped once a day!


Punishing kitty won't help. They are incapable of associating punishment with wrong behavior. Reinforcing right behavior, however, does work, so use the food as a way to show the kitty that these are not elimination places, but happy behavior places.


Now, if you actually want to train your kitty to go to the bathroom in an actual toilet, there are websites you can go to to teach kitty that, but in the meantime, this hopefully will be a good stopgap.
Lay a screen over the toilet and put catlitter or plant dirt. Then show her whats there and just leave her on the toilet.Shell smell it and start going back to it. After awhile you wont need the screen shell do it on her own.
www.litterkwitter.com ..good luck :]
I think most kittens learn by observing their Moms. So if your kitty was separated early from Mom, or was living outdoors, perhaps she didn't learn to use the box. Some box-using cats will go outside the box when stressed.





Try a plain unscented gravel litter in a shallow box. Perfumy litters can deter cats. The litter doesn't need to be deep, just needs to cover the bottom of box. When you're not around to supervise, you might need to leave kitty in the bathroom (toilet lid closed %26amp; small objects put away) with food, water %26amp; some bedding (away from box area) until she's acclimated.





The scent of kitty urine %26amp; poop needs to be eliminated from the non-box areas. Cats tend to return to the scented areas to go again. Next time kitty goes outside the box, stick the doo in the box to make the scent connection. But don't leave it there, as cats don't want to use a dirty box.


To remove the scent from other areas, put white vinegar in a spray bottle %26amp; saturate the scented areas. There are also expensive enzymatic de-stinkers, but vinegar works the best. Let it sit a while. If desired, go over vinegar areas with Fabreeze or some other laundry odor product. But, just laundering the item should get rid of the vinegar smell. Adding vinegar directly to the wash w/ the detergent doesn't work well. Instead, add it to the rinse water. Vinegar removes the detergent.





Definitely don't punish the cat. That has the potential to make things much worse. The cat needs to be relaxed about the litter box.


*One of my friends discovered that her cat was peeing over areas where her child had peed. Getting rid of the kid pee smell stopped the cat pee cycle.


**The below links have much more info. One has a hotline you can call. Good luck.





P.S. To the posters who mentioned cats using people toilets, remember, kitty fannies don't fit the seats %26amp; their aim has to be pretty good. My friend had to get her cat to stop doing this. It was unclean %26amp; dangerous for her cat who needed help getting out after falling in.





-I just saw Crazy Cat Lady's post above %26amp; she gave excellent advice!
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