Training your cat to use the toilet!

What, too much of a struggle to flush the loo? And since when was your backside hygenic? haha

I bought mine from Kmart, it was about AUS$99 I think, but they are cheaper now, around 80bucks or so. Also you can buy them on ebay for quite a bit less second hand. And then when your cat is trained just sell it on again. I expect an adult cat would have no problems with it, it depends on the nature of your cat, some take to it real fast, others struggle. I think it is the instinctive need to scratch and cover it up that they find hardest to lose. I know ours does, but they work out that when it goes in the water that covers the smell. It helps if you flush the loo as soon as they finish whilst they are still standing on it, that way the realise whats going on. Our cat has even jumped up on the cistern afterwards and stuck his paw on the flush button a few times from watching me do it! But he's not strong enough / heavy enough to push the button. They are clever aninimals though and they work things out fast - doesn't always mean they will play ball though even though they know what you want them to do!

Yeah, at first our cat took to it no worries, but there are 4 stages, first there is a red bowl that sits inside the top of the seat attachment, which is just like a normal litter tray, he had no probs with this. Then there is an orange insert which replaces the red one, which has a small hole in the middle, but is surrounded by a ring of litter - they are supposed to learn to go in the hole and the litter is there to stop it from being a big change. When we put this on he would freak out a bit and always stick his head down the hole and put his paws in the water but eventually we got him to go by covering up the hole with some hard plastic sheeting that you use for the front of book binders. Then we'd put a small hole in it and gradually make it bigger until he would go with just the standard orange insert. This worked and eventually he was fine with it. Now we are on the 'green' insert which is like the orange but with a much bigger hole, and we did the same thing by covering the hole with plastic sheeting to get his confidence slowly and everyday we make the hole bigger. Its really funny hearing him go and hearing the sound of stuff falling through the hole into the toilet!! :-) Its much better than the litter tray though, i hate those things they stink and the cat gets it all over his feet. He only had one for the first 2 weeks as a kitten then it was gone! Gets some strange looks from visitors though, but soon he will just use the standard toilet seat.