Have any of you potty trained at cat?

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Neb

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The smell of cats is the main objection I have to cats. The acrid smell is dominant. Walk into a house of smokers and the cat smell dominates.

I understand that if the litter box is attended to the odor is reduced but one missed day and there are cat turds hidden somewhere.

I have read that potty training cats is possible.

Has anyone actually done that ?

Ben
 
I’ve never heard of a cat that needed to be trained. It’s in their nature to bury their poop.

Funny, couple months ago dad was convinced something was digging up his newly sprouted corn in the garden.

I went and looked, had to laugh. One of the barn cats had decided the freshly tilled earth in the garden was a great place to bury poop. 🤣 A jumbo sized litter box.
 
Toilet training a cat:
1 deep dish baking tray that fits inside your bowl.
ground corn cob cat litter (because its so light!)
Show little fuzzbomb where it is and put a piece of his poo in there, make him smell it so he knows its his.

Leave the pan in place for no less than a month, clean daily obviously sprinkle with baking soda.
Remove the pan, little fuzzbomb will continue to go there, EVEN IF YOU SHUT THE LID!
 
I’ve never heard of a cat that needed to be trained. It’s in their nature to bury their poop.

Funny, couple months ago dad was convinced something was digging up his newly sprouted corn in the garden.

I went and looked, had to laugh. One of the barn cats had decided the freshly tilled earth in the garden was a great place to bury poop. 🤣 A jumbo sized litter box.
I laughed, but it's not funny I tell ya. Our cat did the same thing when I dug up and planted carrots so there's a bald spot in the row of carrots. If I see her in there, I hose her. She has 70 acres to do that business.
 
The smell of cats is the main objection I have to cats. The acrid smell is dominant. Walk into a house of smokers and the cat smell dominates.

I understand that if the litter box is attended to the odor is reduced but one missed day and there are cat turds hidden somewhere.

I have read that potty training cats is possible.

Has anyone actually done that ?

Ben


You're talking about going in the toilet? Not in a litter box or outside???



Can't say we ever trained a cat to do that, though I have seen others who may have. I do know we used to have a very 'special' Siamese cat. Poor thing was so cross eyed his head would wobble and when he ran, his back legs would outrun his front. Anyway, every morning he'd go in the bathroom with my dad to do his 'morning constitutional'. Pants around his ankles, reading the morning paper and the cat would climb in his pants for a nap, About scared my dad trying to pull up his pants.......after several months of this, we started noticing SOMEONE wasn't flushing the toilet when done and it turned out to be the cat. Then one day he slipped and fell in, and that was the end of pottying in the toilet.
 
One of my friends trained her cat to use a toilet. SERIOUSLY. It was successful and there was no litter box.
Otherwise, no, they don't need to be trained to do it. Show them where it is. If it is one cat, a larger litter box, clean it at least every other day, I prefer it being cleaned every day and it doesn't take any time at all; add more litter as needed. Don't put litter box on carpet. Empty it and wash it every month. Some have a cover so cat can "go in."
 
The barn cats have to go outside, so no. Old man cat, when he was living, had a litter box. He was an exception. Kittens in the basement had two litter boxes, and they learned to use them. But they also peed all over the plastic tub of lake inflatables. We went to the lake on Father's Day, and the inflatables had to be hosed down before we packed them. That was gross, but the kittens are now outside barn cats.
I don't think I'd want a cat to use our toilets.
 
They will train themselves especially if they have an adult cat to observe but usually even without.
If they have a litter box generously supplied with litter, or a nice kind of loose dirt even, they will use it
 
If I am on the potty, I have two cats trying to get on my lap!! I would probably have to use a litter box if my cats were potty trained! The litter box is a major competition, I know the people potty would be too! I can just imagine a several day power outage, cats flushing, me yelling "don't flush"! And the MAIN reason.....my kitties think they HAVE to put their toys in the people potty, lids MUST be closed!! I'll clean the box!!
 
We tried this with a pair of cats years ago. One refused to have anything to do with it, the other got to a point where it would use the toilet 75% of the time, and the former location of the litterbox the other 25% :( Guess for it to really work you usually have to start with them as kittens.

Now we just use disposable litterboxes and replace them every 3-4 days depending on how quickly they fill up. $120 will get you a years worth of boxes (www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KZH4YO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) and the beautiful thing is there's no scooping, just slide the whole thing in a trash bag and throw it out. No smell, no mess.
 
If I am on the potty, I have two cats trying to get on my lap!! I would probably have to use a litter box if my cats were potty trained! The litter box is a major competition, I know the people potty would be too! I can just imagine a several day power outage, cats flushing, me yelling "don't flush"! And the MAIN reason.....my kitties think they HAVE to put their toys in the people potty, lids MUST be closed!! I'll clean the box!!
I knew there was a reason we built a gravity feed water supply system.
 
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