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 22nd, 2010 at 9:19 am
If my cat can get over the fact that the toilet is full of *shock and awe* water !!! then this would be a wonderful thing to do! Less mess for me to deal with, and less fill for the land.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
I’d love for my cat to try this! She acts like a princess anyway, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility…
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
I’d love to teach my cat to use the toilet. He’s a bengal so I think he’d be a really good student.
Is it mandatory to have two bathrooms?
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
Training our cats to use the toilet would not only be uber-cool, it would also get the boxes out of our main living spaces, save money, and (potentially) help the planet, too. A win-win-win just can’t be wrong.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
I have one cat who HATES the litter box-she steps in, does her business and steps quickly out. She then walks to the bath mat and does the “I’m burying it” scratching….which never helps with the dirty box smell!! I would love to train her to use the toilet!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
I’d definitely like to train my cats to kick the litter habit…
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
this will give my boyfriend and kitty something to do while i’m at work!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:21 am
This is wonderful – I’m in the process of trying to toilet train my cats, but another new guide would be sooo helpful! Enter me in the drawing please
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:21 am
Have always wanted to train my cat to do this…He can share my husband’s bathroom toilet!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:21 am
I’ve been interested in this since Kenji came to live with us. However, my husband would bear the brunt of the “educational process”, I’m afraid, since he’s home all day. However, the book might swing his vote.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:22 am
I was just looking at Litter Kwitter the other day, would love to try this method first! I have 9 litter pans!!!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:22 am
Litter is kind of gross, for the earth, my cats’ lungs, and because it sticks to poo. I would like to kick it. (Yes, I can!)
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:22 am
I would really love to kick litter out of my life!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:22 am
Wow! I would love to toilet train my cats! Can they be taught to flush??
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 am
VERY COOL.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 am
I would live it if I could get my cat to do this! No more litter box would be nice!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 am
It would be fantastic if I could teach just some of my 7 cats to use the toilet bowl instead of the box.Less cleaning for me. Any tips on how to teach them to push the handle down when they are done? If a 7 learned I would have to be around ALL DAY to flush. Hahaha. De
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 am
I have always wanted to try this!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:23 am
I have had cats that trained themselves to use the toilet, and many just refuse. The first one didn’t like the litter box. It was before commercial litter. My Dad mixed sand and dirt. There was no odor control. So, Smokey started using the toilet all by himself. Never did learn to flush it though I’ve had cats that will.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 am
I need this! I am about to have a 4 cat household, which I LOVE, but would love if we could get some training going for them
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 am
Think it would be a daunting prospect for my Gus, but I can still dream!
Would love to learn more!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 am
I would love to see our 5 cats switch to the toilet. They already have their own bathroom.
If we win I guess I have to look into motion sensing flushing on that toilet.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 am
amazing, fingers crossed to finally win something on this site!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 am
I would love to try this!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 am
super awesome!
I would love to try this out.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 am
My boyfriend just got a kitty and was interested in trying to “potty” train her. This book sounds great.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 am
This would be amazing; I’d love to eliminate all of our litter boxes and the odor associated with it!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 am
WOW! What a great idea. My female Sphynx, Princess Isadora, is fasinated by the toilet and loves to watch it flush. She spends a lot of time just sitting in the bathroom. I think she would be a great candidate. Thanks.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 am
It would be so amazing to not have to scoop after 4 cats!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 am
It would be so nice to kick the litter – the one downfall of owning a cat! Clio is pretty smart so I think she would do great!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 am
I am actually going to train my kitties starting this weekend! I am using the City Kitty kit. I will let you know how it goes. Max and Eliza are INTRIGUED by the toilet so I am hoping it will be easy!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 am
I’m willing to give it a try… we’ll have to see if the cat is.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 am
I’m interested! This would be fantastic if it worked!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 am
I’m hoping for a chance at this! I’ve always wanted to toilet-train my handsome kitty Xem, because of the mess that he tracks through the house with little pieces of litter. Less mess, no more having to put litter in the trash to go out to the dump, and one very happy owner who doesn’t have to scoop litter every day! Here’s hoping Xem’ll be able to Kick Litter!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 am
I hate cleaning all of our litter boxes. This would be great if I could train my cats.
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April 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 am
Ohhh, that sounds like a challenge! I’m in!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 am
I love this!!! My cat already loves the loo, shes fallen in quite a few times, and loves to watch it flush, I need to teach her to use it!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 am
WOW! What a great idea. My female Sphynx, Princess Isadora, is fascinated by the toilet and loves to watch it flush. She spends a lot of time just sitting in the bathroom. I think she would be a great candidate. Thanks.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:28 am
oh, oh, oh…Disco would love to win! He pees in the bathroom sinks sometimes and I know he would learn to use the toilet! And that certificate would look so nice right above the commode!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:29 am
Moving into a house with more than one toilet so the possiblities are there but is this just instructions and I have to buy the litter plate thing that goes into the toilet somewhere else?
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:29 am
I have been wanton to do this with my cats for ages! Do you think it’ll work od I only have one toilet? Hmmm….. once my roommate moves out I want to try!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:29 am
With 5 cats, we go through a lot of litter. (Thankfully we have a litter-robot!)
And yet…I wonder what it would be like……
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 am
Litter is the bane of our lives. Kicking Litter would be excellent! Would love to try this, and it’s perfect for living economically and environmentally.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 am
I despise cleaning the litterbox! Count me in!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 am
Alasdair, Emlyn, Julian, and Oliver want to give it a try. I’ve promised them that if they use the toilet I’ll put the money I save into climbing apparatus for them!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 am
I’ve been planning to do this, I have even purchased the city kitty set to help us along! Can’t wait to be rid of the litter box and the mess! Would love the book to help me further along
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:30 am
My Sweetness (he’s head kitty at our house) thinks he might like to try this. He’s been so interested in the toilet for so long!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:31 am
Yay! Please…
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:31 am
I have been wanting to ‘kick litter’ for a while now, and this book would be just the thing to help me!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:32 am
Don’t forget that flushing kitty poop in CA may be contributing to sea otter illness.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1538645,00.html