How to teach a cat to the toilet: get rid of the tray and

Many of the inhabitants of city apartments keep in their home pets. And animals, like people, need to be honored with natural needs. For cats, for example, this requires a tray, which should be periodically filled with special filler, emptied, washed and disinfected.

But taking care of our smaller brothers can be made easier if you know how to teach a cat to go down the toilet. This is not an easy process, but the instructions below will help you understand all its intricacies.

Tray or shared toilet?

First, let's see if it is necessary to train a cat to the toilet at all, or it is enough to do with the usual plastic container into which a special filler is poured.

Each person solves this question on his own, but after a little reflection, you can immediately find several advantages of your pet needing to use the restroom:

1. Time saving. If the animal goes to a common toilet, you do not need to clean the tray every time, wash it, treat with disinfecting solutions and go to the store for a new portion of the filler.
2. Saving money. The price of special granules that need to be poured into a container is quite high. Therefore, having taught the pet to go to the toilet, you can save a sufficiently large amount of money.

Note! Schooling cats to the toilet takes a significant period of time - usually about a month. It is difficult to determine a more accurate term, since each animal has its own character. Be patient and, sooner or later, you will be rewarded.

Teaching cats to use the toilet

Folk way

There is a time-tested system of teaching cats to the toilet, which consists of several stages and takes up to one month. Its essence is to move the container familiar to the animal with the filler closer and closer to the toilet.

Consider in more detail:

1. First, you need to put a cat tray with special pellets near the sanitary device in the toilet and leave it there until the cat gets used to the new location of the hygienic box. It takes from 2 to 3 days.

1. We begin to raise the box up until it reaches the level of the toilet lid. To do this, you can put under it empty boxes, old magazines, telephone or advertising directories, and so on. At the same time it is desirable to reduce the amount of filler in the tank. (See also the article Tank valve: features.)

Tip! The height of the tray above the floor should be increased gradually, by 3-5 cm per day, so that the animal has time to get used to the changes. Also, make sure that the capacity is secure, otherwise your pet may drop it, which will negate the work done earlier.

1. As soon as a stack of magazines or boxes reaches the desired height, begin to shift the cat's container towards the toilet bowl circle. As in the previous case, this should be done in stages (no more than 2-3 cm per day). By this time, the thickness of the filler to absorb cat waste should not exceed 2 cm.

1. Then the usual tray is replaced with a tutorial, which can be purchased at the pet store. If you do not have this device at your disposal, you can also design a suitable replacement yourself:

• lifting a circle, attach thick wax paper to the bowl, pulling it tight to make it look like a drum membrane;
• inside you need to pour a little filler for the tray (buy those that are allowed to drain into the sewer);
• instead of paper fit pallet made of thin aluminum.

1. After the cat learns to use the new tray, it is necessary to cut a small hole with a diameter of not more than 3 cm in the center of wax paper or aluminum pan. It needs to be gradually expanded so that the animal is used to going to the toilet in water. (See also the article Toilet with bidet function: features.)

1. If you use a special pallet, you need to gradually remove sections from it, increasing the hole.
2. At the same time, you should constantly reduce the layer of filler that you put on the edges of wax paper, pallet or plastic tray. By the end of training, he should not remain at all.

1. After visiting the animal to the toilet, it is necessary to flush it. This is not only a requirement of sanitary rules. Most animals do not like to do their business in a place where it is already “dirty”.

Tip! Do not train your pet to press a button or drain lever. This can be done, but some pets will like the process itself, as a result of which they will flush out just like that, without the need for it, which will lead to increased consumption.

1. Encourage your cat to successfully complete each learning step. This will allow her to accustom to the toilet faster.

Using a special device

To reduce the time and effort to teach an animal to use a shared toilet, you can use a special tray for cats for toilet training. This is a special device that is securely fastened to the toilet and facilitates the process of animal training.

The cat toilet gadgetr has the following advantages:

• firmly mounted on the bowl and serves as a support for the animal;
• does not fall off the cover and does not fall inward from sudden movements of the cat;
• the pet perceives a device that looks like a tray with a filler familiar to it.

There are two types of devices:

1. Disposable. This is a plastic tray that is attached to the toilet bowl. Special oval lines are drawn on its bottom. In the process of learning on this markup, you need to cut out unnecessary parts, gradually increasing the hole. With the help of a training tray you can teach an animal to go to the toilet in about 7-10 days, depending on the nature and temperament of the animal.

Note! If in the future you start a new pet, the training tray will not work, as it is impossible to fix the cut off parts.

1. Reusable. Such an instructor consists not of one, but of several trays with holes of different diameters.

The device for teaching a cat to a reusable toilet can be reused. For example, to give to friends who also faced a similar problem, or use, after many years, to train a new pet.

Useful tips

The following recommendations will allow you to more successfully cope with the process of teaching your pet to use a shared toilet:

• you do not need to force the cat to use the toilet by force, wait until she passes through this or that stage of training;
• do not go on to the next item of the training, until the animal has mastered the changes that have already occurred (for example, do not immediately put the animal on the training tray, this will not lead to anything good);
• if the cat normally went to the toilet on a training tray or paper, and then refuses to do its business on a regular circle, pour some filler into the toilet bowl.

Conclusion

Having figured out how to teach a cat to the toilet after the tray, you will not only save yourself time and money, but also get rid of it, you see, not the most attractive accessory in the apartment. For maximum harmony with your pet, you also need to teach her not to spoil furniture and wallpapers with claws. See this video in this article.