This Ain't The First Rumble

So, a brief history on toilet training cats.  This is not the first time this has been tried with these two.  About four years ago, my co-conspirator and really, the mastermind behind this debacle tried a home grown method of toilet training his cats not unsimilar to the LitterKwitter.

He pretty much mimiced what we're doing now.  Since the litterbox was already in the bathroom, one step was already done.  From there, the put a box under the litterbox to elevate the existing litterbox until it was the same height as the toilet and finally, he put it on the toilet.

Then, ingeniously, I thought, he got a colander:

and dropped it onto the toilet seat so that the rim of the colander caught on the edge and created a cute, circular litterbox in the toilet.

The idea was then to carve out a small circle...little by little...until there was no colander left at all.

Seems sensible, right?

If you've picked up on my initial fears that Bean would be the problem child on the LitterKwitter voyage, this is where it dates back to.  All seemed to be going well and good until my teammate began to cut that tiny hole in the bottom of the colander.  What had been a smooth transition to awesomeness became a battle of wills that she would eventually win.  Bean rebeled.  She stopped pee'ing into the colander and started going in the bathtub drain, which was fine...in theory.  But then she started poo'ing in there too.  I'm personally impressed with her connection of drain systems, but while peeing might be fine, poo'ing in the tub is unacceptable. 

So, they put toys around the drain and taped the shower curtain shut.  With a little coaxing, she went back to peeing in the toilet, but began pooping behind the toilet.  Next to the toilet.  She pulled the shower curtain back and pooped in the tub again.

The final straw: Bean climbed into the 3rd roommate's backpack and peed all over a hundred dollar text book. 

The litter box was thus brought back and the text book replaced and the incident went down as a giant failure.

So why do this again, why now, why all this probably torture?  Because how awesome would it be to have toilet-poo'ing cats?!?!

VERY...VERY AWESOME

Toilet Trained Cat

Last that we left off, we had moved the litterbox back into the bathroom because Coal was hitting a few speedbumps.  Like we mentioned in the original post, she'll go along with just about anything...as long as you go slow.

So, after a few days with the litter box in the bathroom and no new accidents, we moved on...pulled the litterbox out and replaced it with the LitterKwitter. 

Surprise - no accidents.  You just gotta go slow.

Timeline Review:
3/31 - 4/2: Coal views office as giant litter box.
4/2 - 4/5: Litter box moved back into bathroom.
4/5 - 4/8: LitterKwitter replaces Litterbox - no accidents occur.

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