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28 Jan, 2010

toilet training Lex

Posted by: blissfule In: Perth ()

We love our simple small house. It's got a great floor plan and a spacious bathroom, which is big enough for the litter box to wedge into the space between the toilet and the bathtub.

While that solution did work, it wasn't ideal. Wouldn't it be better to get rid of the litter?

How wonderful, I thought, to say goodbye to litter crumbs, to flush rather than scoop, and - most of all - to reclaim the floor space Lex's huge litter box occupied in our otherwise marvelous bathroom.

Fortunately we're not the first people to dream of training a cat to use the human toilet. Aston Lau has even written a book about it, The Toilet Trained Cat.

By following the clear instructions in Aston's book, we have made some progress, and the huge litter box is gone. We now have a smaller litter pan duct taped to the toilet seat. Lex has peed in it, but we're waiting for him to poo in it as well.

After he passes that test, we'll give him a few more days to get used to hopping up there to do his business before we move him to stage two, which involves getting rid of the litter box and moving to a roasting pan embedded between the toilet seat and the basin.

You may wonder where we humans are using the toilet while we have various contraptions duct taped to our loo. Fortunately, we have a dunny outside as part of our shed.

We hope to have Lex fully trained and to be litter free before the first autumn rain!

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