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 9:54 am
I have a question for those who have toilet trained their cats. What do you do about flushing? Like, do you warn guests that they may come across a pre-pooped toilet or do you just train the cat to use a non-public toilet or…?
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:54 am
I rescue & foster cats, can’t wait to get started. The time & money this will save will enable me to care for, feed & neuter more abandoned cats.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
Oh man, with 4 cats I would give anything to stop spending about $100 a month on corn litter! And reclaim the space in my house their litter boxes take up. What a dream… I want one of these books!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
I would love to kick the litter out of my life forever!!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
I would really love to win this book. My cats are always on the toilet. But they don’t use it. LOL
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
This sounds interesting. We’d love to kick the litter habit!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
This is fantastic! My husband has been wanting to toilet train our two cats for years now…what a great jumpstart this would be.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
Haha this is hilarious!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:56 am
I would love for my cat, Jane to get toilet trained!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:56 am
I’ve wanted to do this for years! I love my cats to death but there’s nothing I hate more than them tracking litter all over the house. This would be godsend!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:57 am
Way 2 Kool — if it works!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:57 am
With 7 kitties, I would LOVE to be able to toilet train them and not have the hefty litter bill! They’re young, too, so hopefully it’s doable.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:58 am
I’d love to kick the litter habit!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:58 am
I am really intrigued by the thought of not scooping litter every day. Sign me up!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:59 am
The gray and white kitty pictured looks just like my Jezebel!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:59 am
One of my cats “kicks” half the litter out of the box. He needs help!
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:59 am
Would love to teach my cats to do this. But concerned that they will problems later when they are older.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:01 am
Very cool! I’d love to train my kitty to do this!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:02 am
The poster looks attractive. Hope it works with our kitty.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:02 am
With 5 kitties going potty at whataever time they need to…it’s become a full time job scooping and cleaning up! If I could even get one kitty potty trained it would be awesome!!!! and I know the one that would probably take to it fist…ACE!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 am
Just in time….as I’m about to change out two boxes.
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April 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 am
Hi,
I’d love to have this! I’ve partially trained Nugget to do this – but since I am adopting a new one as well – a guide would be helpful.
Thanks!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:04 am
Can you really teach an old cat new “tricks”??!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:08 am
This is a great idea but I don’t know. I think that I would start laughing and not be able to stop if I ever saw my cat sitting on the toilet. And what if we both had to go at the same time? Hee hee.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:08 am
Yes! My husband and i have been talking about trying to do this for ages! Thanks!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:08 am
I was just thinking this morning how i can get my 3 cats to use the toilet.
One of them actually stands up as it is and rest his feet on the edge of the litter box as I really think he doesn’t like to get his feet dirty. I’m all for trying it out.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:09 am
I think this is a great idea! However, if you live on the coast, chances are your kitty litter will wind up in the ocean! Toxoplasmosis is found in cat feces and harms sea otters:
http://cats.about.com/cs/parasiticdisease/a/seaotters.htm
http://www.magazine.noaa.gov/stories/mag72.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/06/020627004404.htm
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:12 am
Love it.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:13 am
A toilet trained kitty would be amazing!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:14 am
I would love to come home and see little kitty poops in the toilet….so cute! But can you teach an old cat new tricks?
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 am
This could save me a bundle AND be so green too! I have 6 indoor cats and estimeate my monthly litter expense to be around $60 a month. That’s over $700 a year and over 1o grand over the course of a cats life x 6. I need this!!!!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:16 am
I really want to make this work in my household this year. I’ve been saying I am going to toilet train the cats for almost three years!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:17 am
How ironic! I was just looking into the CitiKitty system, and think I’ll give it a shot! Even if all four of my furry kids don’t do it, eliminating a few of the litter boxes would still be a huge advantage!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:18 am
I would like to to try.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:19 am
Our friends would be so impressed!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:19 am
This would be awesome
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:20 am
I would love to give this a shot!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:20 am
I’m seriously thinking about doing this. It would be nice since both my cats make a mess whenever they use the litter box.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:21 am
I’ve been curious about trying this on our kitty for a while now. This sounds like the perfect resource!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:21 am
This would be great.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:22 am
Thats so great!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:22 am
I would love love love my kitten to be able to use the toilet, first she has to learn to not drink from it. This kit looks fantastic!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:24 am
This would be amazing!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:27 am
I have sworn that my next cat will learn to use the toilet so that I can eliminate the litter box. I have really bad allergies – crazy, insane and really ironic, I’m not allergic to the cats, but I keep having more and more trouble finding a cat litter I can tolerate.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:27 am
This is awesome! My husband would be thrilled…well, me too!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:29 am
This has my utility room toilet’s name written all over it. How awesome would it be not to have a litterbox!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:30 am
I really have considered this, have had concerns with if I can do both (when we have company I really don’t want the cats using the toilet!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:32 am
If my cat could do this, I would love it!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:34 am
Oh please, oh please, oh please! If ever I wanted to win a Moderncat giveaway, it’s now!
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:35 am
I have one kitty who uses the toilet, but he hasn’t learned to flush yet! LOL Have more 6 kitties who need to learn, but aren’t interested yet.