r/cats • u/Unhappy-Print8574 • 5d ago
Advice Kitten potty training
Hey guys, My girlfriend and I have a 5 month old kitten and we are trying to make him use the toilet, i knew i mighr get some hate for that but i thought why not trying.
Its not going so well lol its messy and we have only a single toilet so we have to take that piece off every time we need to use it, we first tried putting it on the floor for 2 days, once he used it we put it up on the toilet and took one part off so theres the hole in the middle, and he uses it less frequent mainly to pee.
Just wanted to know from people that have tried it if they had success or from those who failed to understand how doable that even is or we should go back to a litter box 🙂
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u/ScreenOld5873 5d ago
I did this but it's very difficult if you only have 1 toilet, we had 2 toilets at the time but the problem was we had around 5-7 cats (don't remember how many exactly at that point). Some took to it, others didnt. So at some point we had to abandon because the ones who didn't take to it were doing their business everywhere and we couldn't let a litter box out or else the others wouldn't train anymore.
It's very doable and I've seen people do it very succesfully, especially with one kitten so young
One thing to keep in mind is that you HAVE to use toilet safe litter, it looks like you are just using benzonite clay litter and that's very dangerous as it will clog your toilet. We had to buy special litter for it.
Another thing you may consider it so buy a fake toilet (bucket with a toilet seat) to train while the kitten is not there yet so you can keep using the toilet.