Step 2 - Day 1

Step 2 - Day 1 night

Step two:
-Move the litter box into the bathroom-

I cleaned up all the kitty mess in the living room, I swear litter gets everywhere, and moved the litter box into the bathroom. Panda wasn't happy, she kept sniffing around the closet where their box used to be and I kept a close eye on her and even carried her into the bathroom to show here where the box was. She used it but it almost seemed grudgingly. Wally is okay with it, sometimes he is so easy to get along with.

Step 2 - Day 2


Both cats seem to be used to the litter box sitting in the bathroom and both of them checked out the toilet this morning. I'm still having trouble remembering to leave the lid up.

Step 1 - Day 4

Step 1 - Day 4

I didn't get home until late last night so I haven't been able to clean up the whole kitty litter area yet so we are still on Step 1.

Yesterday morning Panda avoided the toilet as much as possible but Wally jumped up on it to check it out. Maybe he will be better at this than his sister, who knows.

I'm going to be the hardest one to train at this point, I keep closing the lid which I can't do once they actually start needing it on a regular basis.

Step 1 -Day 5 morning

Wally drank out of the toilet this morning. They both jumped up onto it to check it out but then Wally started using it as a water bowl, so gross but sadly not the first time he has done this.

-Back Story-
Back in 2008 I graduated from college, moved back home with my parents, and adopted a tiny little kitten we named Wally. That summer Baby Wally played outside with our other cat Zippy and grew up with the two puppies Pepper and Ginger who had been adopted on Easter earlier that spring.

That winter Wally was neutered and stayed inside for a couple of weeks and eventually it became permanent after he proved to be a very sweet and well behaved inside cat. He was fed in the laundry room where we could keep his food away from the puppies but he shared a water bowl with them in the kitchen.

That spring Pepper and Ginger got hit by a car out in the road and both of them had broken pelvises and Ginger had a broken leg. They were kept in their crates to recover and their food and water bowls were moved into the crates with them so they could eat and drink without moving very much. However, over our worry about the puppies we forgot that we had also taken away Wally's source of water.

About a week later I was talking to my mom in her room and heard a strange sound coming from the bathroom, something climbing around on stuff and splashing water. We walked into the bathroom to find Wally perched on the toilet seat, his head down in the toilet itself and drinking away. After much laughter we then found a water bowl for him and kept it with his food from then on.

Step 1 - Day 3

All is going well so far, but nothing is really happening at all except for getting used to something new so I guess it isn't that interesting yet. Neither of them jumped onto the toilet seat today, Panda looked into it but jumped straight up onto the bathroom counter instead of onto the toilet and then onto the counter and Wally never even went into the bathroom this morning.

I have been doing some major spring cleaning the last couple of days so this first step is taking a little longer than necessary. Tomorrow I plan on cleaning up all the kitty litter mess over by their litter box and then begin step two, move the litter box into the bathroom next to the toilet.

I realize that this seems completely crazy and it might not work, but now I have to do it just to prove I can (Stephen), not to mention how much cleaner this place will be without kitty litter on the floor.

Step 1 - Day 2

Step one, leaving the toilet lid up, is going well. This morning Wally tried to jump onto the toilet lid like he always does but then he half fell in, he stood there, his front paws dangling in the seat, his back feet still on the ground, looking down at the water for a good minute trying so hard to figure out what was going on. He had a little trouble jumping up onto the seat at first but soon he was walking around it and playing with the water.

Panda also discovered the change but she jumped straight up onto it without any trouble and then, like Wally, pawed at the water for a little while and walked around the seat. I'm going to continue step one until Thursday morning so that my friends who are coming over tomorrow don't have to deal with the kitty litter box in the bathroom, at least not this week.

Step 1 - Day 1

So this always happens, I get bored so I decide to try something new. I once decided to train my cats to ring a bell when they want food, Panda still does it sometimes, especially when she is trying to show off while I am dog sitting, but Wally never even tried. Now I'm going to try to toilet train both of them, I'm pretty sure Panda is clever enough to figure it out, Wally on the other hand is kind of lazy and a brat so I'm not sure if he will even try. If nothing else this will be a fun experiment.

Where to start:
I found this website to give me some ideas
http://www.karawynn.net/mishacat/toilet.html

Step one:
-Lid up, Seat down, Door open-

This will be a big step, the last time the lid was left open on the toilet seat Wally fell in. They both sit on the toilet lid when I'm getting reading in the morning and they kind of dive bomb onto it and slide off the other side half the time. So first step, let them get used to the lid being up on the seat. I'm already used to leaving the door open during the day so hopefully that wont be a problem.