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June 29th, 2009 by KittyKitty

It’s not difficult to learn how to toilet train your cat if you have the patience to go through every single step. Really, it’s quite easy. It can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. Going through each of the phases slowly is important if you want to make sure your cat will take to the new arrangements.

Cat toilet training is certainly something you ought to at least attempt. Teaching your cat to use the toilet will not only save money on cat litter, your house will smell better without a litter box, and you’ll be helping the environment. The following are a few simple steps for those who would like to give this a try.

To start with, you need to begin slowly moving the litter box towards its new location so your cat doesn’t find it too much of a change. Thus, you want to shift the litter box in increments. This may take you a fair bit of time, but it’s essential for your cat to figure out that the bathroom is where it now has to go to relieve itself. You can move the box an inch at a time or you can do it in smaller or bigger increments, whatever works best for your cat.

Now that the box is positioned alongside the toilet, the next move is to increase the height. Increase the height of the base over time until the litter box is at the same level as the toilet. Before you do so, make sure that the box is tightly attached to the base. You cat will have to leap up to use it, and you don’t want it to tip over. Heavy blocks or phonebooks work well for this purpose. After the base is at the same height as the toilet and the cat is accustomed to utilizing the box at this height, you want to shift it nearer and nearer to the toilet, and then gradually slide it over until it’s on top of the toilet. The entire time, you should be reducing the quantity of litter progressively so that there’s only about an inch of it remaining.

Now it’s time to start the final phase of the process. Remove the litter box and replace it with an aluminum tray that is securely attached to the toilet. Next you’ll want to remove the litter from the tray and cut a hole in it. Slowly start to enlarge the hole, until eventually your cat is only using the toilet!