Reply #52: My mother's cat uses the toilet!.....

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Three cats were dropped at my mother's house on Good Friday seven years ago when they were about two weeks old. My Mother fed them around the clock every two hours with a bottle. They think she is their mother, as right they are! She bought a kit from the cat catalogues on how to train your kitties to use the toilet. It consisted of a cardboard ring that you placed on the toilet seat with kitty litter underneath, which you removed after the kitties learned to jump on the toilet and use the kitty litter there. The cardboard ring eventually disintegrated and my Mother stopped using it, thinking the kitties hadn't caught on. Last September, when I was visiting my Mother, I heard water running in the bathroom very near the kitchen as I was passing by. I looked in the bathroom and saw that Sneakers was up on the toilet seat stradling it, with a definite trickling sound. He was actually peeing into the toilet! I was convulsed with laughter and motioned my Mother to come quickly and see what was happening! That was the first time we caught him actually peeing into the toilet. It has happened many times since. When she visits my house, I now leave the toilet lids up, which I don't normally do because I personally know of three people who have had rats in their toilets from the sewer line, trying to get out into the house. I have had a phobia about since then and keep my toilet lids closed. But, if Sneakers wants to pee in the toilet instead of the litter box, I have tried to smother my fear of rats getting out into my house, just to accommodate Sneakers! Isn't that a riot?? Out of the three cats my Mother adopted, at least one, the biggest one at 18 pounds, learned their lessons!