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Si vous vous rappelez mon introduction, vous vous rappellerez que j'ai deux chats. Toutes les deux sont civière de kitty qualifiée et bien que je sache à la toilette formez-les, ni l'un ni l'autre de eux ne sont. (Et probablement seulement) le problème principal que j'ai avec la formation de toilette est le fait que j'ai seulement une salle de bains.

Quand Lobo était un jeune chaton, environ 8 mois, j'ai commencé la formation de toilette il. Après que je sois entré environ 2 semaines dans la formation, mon mari a commencé à hurler à moi au sujet du fait qu'il a dû déplacer un récipient rempli de civière de kitty chaque fois qu'il a voulu employer la salle de toilette. Ainsi mes tentatives à la formation de toilette finie et à moi recommandent seulement ceci si vous avez deux toilettes ainsi vous pouvez réserver un pour le chat et un pour toutes personnes dans la maison. Au moins jusqu'à la formation est fait.

Cette formation est réellement très simple et elle n'exige pas beaucoup d'effort sur votre partie, à moins que naturellement, continuant sur nettoyer la civière de kitty. Il y a plusieurs étapes à la toilette formant votre chat et ils devraient suivre une chronologie avec laquelle tous les deux toi et votre chat sont confortables. Si vous trouvez à tout moment que votre chat résiste à une nouvelle étape, rapportez simplement une mesure et dépensez un peu plus de temps en dernière étape.

Étape une : L'environnement

La première étape à former votre chat pour établir l'environnement pour la formation. Ceci signifie que vous devrez commencer à laisser votre porte de salle de bains votre de toilette siège ouvert et vers le bas avec le couvercle vers le haut ou complètement au loin. Vous devrez également placer la boîte de civière de kitty près de la toilette, fin asse'ainsi le chat s'habituera à la marche sur la toilette comme vous passez le long par les étapes. Make sure that you remind her where the kitty litter is so she won’t start having accidents on the floor or worse places.

Step Two: Raising the Kitty Litter

Once your cat has accepted the new location for the kitty litter, usually after 2 to 7 days, you can move to the next stage of training. This is the stage where you move the kitty litter box up off the floor in a gradual progression. Every two to four days, add a thin box underneath the box until it is at the same height as the toilet. Keep the progress slow and if you ever find your cat urinating or defecating in places other than his kitty litter, then you know that you are going to fast for him to adjust.

After the box is at the level of the toilet seat, move it onto the toilet itself and secure it to avoid any spills. At this point, give the cat plenty of time to adjust to using the kitty litter on the toilet itself.

Step Three: The Bowl

Once the litter box is elevated and the cat is accustomed to using it at such a high altitude, you can make the switch to a metal bowl that is placed in the toilet seat. You will need to measure the seat to get the right size and you can probably pick up a good metal bowl at a local dollar store.

Now that your cat is used to doing her business on the toilet, it is time to remove the kitty litter box and to place the bowl in the toilet with about 2 or 3 inches of litter. Don’t purchase clumping litter since you want litter that can be dumped into the toilet.

Once you have the kitty litter in, it is time to watch your cat whenever she is going to the bathroom. If she is sitting on the seat with her front feet and back feet nestled together in a squat, then you don’t have much more work, however, if she has her hind legs or even all four legs in the bowl, you will need to correct the squat by placing all her feet onto the toilet seat and then praising her.

This may take a bit of time and it is important to get her squatting properly before you move onto the next stage.

Oh, one last thing, make sure you take the box right out of the house so she won’t find it and begin using it in a new location.

Step Four: Decreasing the Litter

At this point, you cat should be using the bowl regularly and there shouldn’t be any accidents in the house. He should also be squatting with all four feet on the toilet seat when he does go to the bathroom.

Once he is at this stage, you can start decreasing the litter. This usually goes on over the course of two days and you want to make sure that you can be there to clean the kitty litter immediately after he is finished.

When there is no kitty litter in the bottom of the bowl, you can begin slowly adding water at about a tablespoon at a time. Each time your cat uses his new “litter” you can add another tablespoon of water. Make sure you clean it out each time though.

Step Five: Success

This is the last and final stage and hopefully you have gone through the other stages slowly so that your cat is confident with doing her business in a bowl of water.

At this point, usually when you have a bowl with several inches of water in it, you will want to remove the bowl from the toilet. Keep an eye on your cat for the first few days to make sure that she is fine with this final stage and that she is not using other areas as a litter box.

If everything went according to plan, you should be happy with the end result of a perfectly toilet trained cat. You will never have to clean a kitty litter box and you will never have days when you find kitty litter spread across the floor or worse, in your socks.

All the best and I hope you and your cat has many successes when it comes to toilet training.