If you want to be really green this Earth Day, you could try toilet training your cat and kicking the litter habit altogether! I still have yet to try this, but I’ve read so many testimonials saying that it’s the best thing ever, I have to see if it works.
One of the best resources out there for helping you teach your cats how to use the toilet is Kick Litter, the entertaining little guidebook from Moxie and Cooper who both kicked litter themselves. The book comes with a free poster outlining the easy-to-follow “nine step intervention program” for toilet training your cat.
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Note: Toilet training cats can be controversial because some research has shown that there may be a link between a parasite sometimes found in cat feces and harm being caused to sea otters on the West coast of the US. However, further research shows that if you are able to verify that your cat does not have the parasite, that flushing cat feces is not a problem. For more info, please read this post.
Enter to Win! Nine Winners!
We have enough copies of Kick Litter for nine lucky winners, one for each of the nine-steps! These books will not only be signed by the author, Perre DiCarlo, but they will be accompanied by a very special certificate of completion designed just for Moderncat readers! To enter, please leave a comment on this post. The winners will be chosen in a random drawing on April 29. One entry per person. This giveaway is open to readers everywhere.
April 23rd, 2010 at 6:52 am
j’adore!
April 23rd, 2010 at 6:52 am
Been meaning to try this.
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:28 am
Oh, the money I could save with not buying litter for 5 cats…
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:30 am
I would love to give this a try.
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:31 am
Toilet training is one of the WORST things for cats. First, it doesn’t take into account their natural need to bury their waste. Second, the litter box is one of the first places many health issues will show up. Second, if the cat falls in, it is then covered in waste. The stance a cat has to take is also unnatural.
Toilet training a cat is all for the human’s convenience, and does nothing for the cat.
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:37 am
This would be an interesting project. I have four cats- two seem intersted in the flushing toilet -they put two paws up on the edge when i flush poop from the litter box.
I suspect it requires consistency and following the methods closely…
I would love to try it but the multiple cat issue makes me wonder…..
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:34 am
I would like to try this!!
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:50 am
I quite agree with E on all the points. Plus another thing to take into consideration – geriatric cats. My 19-year-old cat wouldn’t be able to leap up to the bowl with her arthritis now.
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:54 am
I’ve been thinking of training my kitty to not use her litter box anymore, because she tracks a lot and I have to sweep after her daily. -__-” This post is so timely, and I hope I can try this method on her. Joy to the everyone in the household if we succeed!
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:28 am
Even corn-based litter costs a lot and is unnecessary if our cats could share the toilet!
Before doing this, we’re going to get our two cats tested for the sea otter death parasite, but if our cats are otter-murder-free, we’ll definitely go for it!
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:35 am
I have always wanted to try this, and I’m curious to see how my 3 cats would respond to it. I’d love to have this little guidebook!
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:16 am
I have to say I am very curious about this. I wonder how old your cat has to be.
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:24 am
I NEED THIS!! I NEED THIS!! I NEED THIS!!!
LOL.
I see this as the ultimate challenge and more money in my pocket! HUGE PLUS for Mother Earth as well!
My cat, is always drinking out of the toilet or sitting on it when the lid is down.
I wonder if this makes him a good candidate….
I’ve been wanting to try this for so long!
Bri Weymouth
April 23rd, 2010 at 10:26 am
I tend to agree with post #455 that this concept sounds good to some humans, but is of no benefit to cats – plus flushing their waste products can be harmful to marine life (in particular sea otters.)
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:11 am
I Would love to try this,but I am dubious to any of my cats complying with mommys wishes.
Xxoo
Missy
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:23 am
I so want to toilet train our kitties! I have been talking about it for along time and would love to give it a try.
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:47 am
I think I could get one of my cats to do this. Although he does try to drink out of the toilet…so we will see.
April 23rd, 2010 at 11:47 am
My girlfriend and I have been discussing the dream of training my cat to use the toilet… freeing us from the litter scattered across the floor!
April 23rd, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Curious to read it and try it
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:59 pm
We moved to a new house a year ago. I designed my bathroom so that it would have two toilets, one for the people and the other for my cat.
I was really hoping that the product I purchased at that time would work well and my cat would learn in no time. After trying for 6 months or so, i had actually given up on that and went back to the litter box mess but, still hoping that I can teach him to use it somehow someday.
April 23rd, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I see this book coming in very handy in the future
April 23rd, 2010 at 5:32 pm
3 cats spanning 19 years of litter usage-I am due to Kick Litter for life. I want to do this so very badly!
April 23rd, 2010 at 5:55 pm
I LOVE this idea. I’ve been wanting to try it myself!!! I feel so guilty about the litter box waste!
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:07 pm
We would love to teach our cat to do this-it would definitely cut down on litter cost and waste!
April 23rd, 2010 at 7:13 pm
does this really work
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:32 pm
This is too cool, I love the idea that this all comes in a package!
April 24th, 2010 at 12:12 am
I would love to try this. I’ve seen dogs that were toilet trained, but never a cat.
April 24th, 2010 at 5:42 am
I would love to try this! I have 5 cats currently, and that makes for a lot of scooping! I use WBCL, which is pretty expensive, so it would save me a lot of time and money. To those who say it’s “unnatural”, we all know how strong minded and strong willed cats are. You can’t really get them to do anything they don’t want to, so, my thought is that, if they adapt to this new behavior, they must not really have a problem with it. If they did, they simply would not do it!
April 24th, 2010 at 6:59 am
This sounds like a fantastic idea! I’d love to be able to attempt to teach my cats how to do this!
April 24th, 2010 at 9:05 am
with 3 cats…this is the way to go
April 24th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
This is cool!
April 24th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
I want to try this with my kitties! I like the certificate of completion too!!!
April 24th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
I would love to take this on. I’ll even send you guys pics of the results!!!
April 24th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
I tried a method of my own, but it didn’t work. I’d love to try something proven.
April 24th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
This looks like the cutest potty training for cats guide ever! I must teach my kitty to use the toilet, I think she wants to!
April 24th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
It was be awesome and radical if all 3 of my cats could be toilet trained! Wow.
April 24th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Hmm… Although now that I’ve read about the cons of toilet training, now I’m not so sure about this.
April 24th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Would be perfect for Oreo-he hates using the litter box
April 24th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
This item is really cute and the winnere who wins it i hop they are happy.
April 24th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
I would love to have my cats use the toilet. That would be great. I have so many litterboxes and I can only dream of the day of life with my cats but life without litterboxes!
April 25th, 2010 at 6:30 am
Anything to save money and the environment! Even though I’ve read things about cat poop in the water systems doing damage to wildlife.
April 25th, 2010 at 7:02 am
I have been wanting to potty train my cats for a while and this guide would be a great help!
April 25th, 2010 at 7:26 am
I’ve always wanted to get free from litter, but it seems a daunting task. This looks like a good ‘kick start’
April 25th, 2010 at 8:39 am
I really hope to win this! I have always wanted to try to toilet train my kitties!!
April 25th, 2010 at 11:12 am
I am trying to potty train my cats! The smarter one wants nothing to do with it! I need help!
April 25th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I have 3 kitties in a tiny house and litter is tracked everywhere. I would love to kick this litter habit!
April 25th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
I have tried to toilet train one of my cats; however, it was unsuccessful because he did not know what to do when I added water to the bowl. I have always wanted to try it again.
April 25th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I like it…
April 25th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Too awesome, and fun-looking.
April 25th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Oh man, if only we could get rid of the litter box forever!