How to Toilet Train Your Cat
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Toilet training your cat is not hard to do. It just requires time and patience and the right tools. During the toilet training process you will be molding your cats behavior and slowly transitioning them to using toilet.
Training consists of placing a training seat on your toilet filled with a small amount of litter. After your cat has adapted you will cut a small hole in the center of the training seat and gradually make the hole larger and larger until it's completely open to the toilet. When this is complete your cat will have completely adapted to using the toilet and you will no longer need the training seat.
To begin the training you need to get a few things in stock.
Supplies
See our Complete Supply List- CitiKitty Toilet Training Kit
- Flushable Litter
- Cat Treats
Training
1 - Transition from Litterbox
Skip ahead to '2 - Begin the Training' if you are training a kitten or you are bringing a new cat home for the first time.
- Move your cats litter box into bathroom (beside the toilet is ideal). If your cats litter box is currently located far from the bathroom you may want to do this in stages by moving your cats litter box closer to the bathroom every few days.
- Once the litter box is beside the toilet raise the height of the litter box every few days - 2 inches at a time is good. You can do this by placing magazines, newspapers or boxes beneath the litter box (make sure it's sturdy). Raise the litter box as slowly or as quickly as your cat(s) can adapt to the change.
2 - Begin the Training
- Put the CitiKitty Training Seat on your toilet and fill with flushable litter. Remove your old litter box from your cats enviornment. Leave the training seat on the toilet for a few days to allow your cat to adapt.
- Once your cat is comfortable make a small hole (size of a pen) in the center of ring one. Some cats will be unfazed by the hole while others may take some time to adapt. Start with as small of a hole as possible and then expand it depending on how your cat reacts
- After your cat has used the training seat successfully for 5 days with this small hole make the hole a little larger.
- Continue the above process by gradually enlarging the size of the hole every few days until the entire first ring is removed.
3 - Remove the Rings
- After your cat has adapted to having the entire first ring removed you are ready to remove the remaining rings in the training seat. We recommend starting by removing a ¼ of a CitiKitty ring every 4-5 days. If your cat is adapting well you can remove an entire ring at a time.
- The speed in which you increase the size of the hole depends on the speed in which your cat learns. If you move slowly and make small changes your cat will be less likely to have an accident during training.
- Continue the above process until all the rings are removed from CitiKitty. Once all the rings are removed give your cat a few days to adapt and then remove CitiKitty from the toilet. Keep the remaining CitiKitty Training Seat if you intend on having your cat use another toilet in the near future.