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.