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I was wondering if anyone has tried litter kwitter to teach their kitty to use the toilet.
A friend of mine raved about teaching her 8 month old kitty, so I was just wondering if anyone else had any experience or has tried this. I am wondering if it is worthwhile to try.
LOL 30to66, my dogs think it's a water bowl too. I'm hoping to see positive responses to this post though, I'd love to dump - pun intended - the litter boxes forever =)
See someone told me at a birthday party that they did this for their cat and it was absolutely amazing, she has no litter boxes and it was super easy to do. She said you save money by not using litter anymore too even though the kit is pretty expensive!
I'm just scared to spend that much on a kit and it not work on my cat, so I was hoping someone here might have tried it!
Very bad idea. Monitoring litter box use is one of the most important ways to keep track of a cat's health.
Not to mention forcing a cat to squat in an unnatural position and denying him the instinctive drive to bury his waste is not very nice for the cat.
Having a cat means having a litter box. It's not that big a deal.
I have a friend who, much to her regret, trained her cat to use the toilet. He now has all sorts of health problems that require her to monitor his output. She's trying to retrain him to the litter box.
He had a hospital stay and he wouldn't use the litter box, he simply held it until he was ready to burst. The vet finally had to put him under anesthesia and catheterize him, and give him an enema.
Oh my catsmom21, you laid it out just like it is, I always though how wonderful it would be if a cat would be toilet trained, but you just opened my eyes wide, monitoring the litter box and having them crouch in a very unnatural way are two valid points, now I won't think it's so cool for cat to be toilet trained...
Very bad idea. Monitoring litter box use is one of the most important ways to keep track of a cat's health.
Not to mention forcing a cat to squat in an unnatural position and denying him the instinctive drive to bury his waste is not very nice for the cat.
Having a cat means having a litter box. It's not that big a deal.
I have a friend who, much to her regret, trained her cat to use the toilet. He now has all sorts of health problems that require her to monitor his output. She's trying to retrain him to the litter box.
He had a hospital stay and he wouldn't use the litter box, he simply held it until he was ready to burst. The vet finally had to put him under anesthesia and catheterize him, and give him an enema.
That's a VERY good point and I agree totally. Last year one of my ladycats developed a mild UTI which I caught early and got it treated successfully. It was the litter box that told me she had a problem. If it hadn't been for that, I might have missed it and she could have had a more serious issue. Like Jackson Galaxy advises, sometimes it's very important to be able to read a litter box.
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