# toilet training your kitty

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-training-your-kitty/330193>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 9, 2005, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-training-your-kitty/330193 "2005-11-09T09:35:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-training-your-kitty/330193/1 "2005-11-09T09:35:46Z")

</div>

For years, I’ve been hearing about training your cat to use a toilet in order to get rid of your litter box. I have some questions about the procedure that I’d love to run by any dopers in the know.

First, can you train cats to do this in a house with 3 cats, not just 1?

Second, can you train them to only use one particular toilet and not the others ones in the house?

Lastly, what happens if the cat has to go and someone has left the lid down?

We’re wondering if we want to even attempt this process, or leave it litter-box style instead.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-training-your-kitty/330193/2 "2005-11-09T13:27:19Z")

</div>

I tried and failed, but you can get some good tips [here](http://www.karawynn.net/mishacat/toilet.html).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-training-your-kitty/330193/3 "2005-11-09T18:03:43Z")

</div>

Apparently poster **Rubes** successfully taught his cat to do this, but he only had the one cat. I haven’t seen him around lately, but a search should bring it up.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-training-your-kitty/330193/4 "2005-11-09T18:18:43Z")

</div>

Aha! Found 'em. And **rubes** is now listed as a Guest, so I guess that means he didn’t subscribe. More’s the pity.

[The beginning](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=223898)

[Midway through](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=248204)

[Success!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259261)

Apparently there was a setback, but he seems to have gotten it to work. Again, with only one kitty.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-training-your-kitty/330193/5 "2005-11-09T19:18:06Z")

</div>

“No, kitty, that’s a bad kitty!”  
– Eric Cartman

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![filmyak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@filmyak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmyak)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toilet-training-your-kitty/330193/6 "2005-11-10T20:21:13Z")

</div>

Thanks for the links. Yeah I figure one cat is relatively doable, but not sure how to handle 3 cats, especially if I want them using just 1 toilet, not the other 2.

And let’s face it, researching kitty pee patterns is a nasty business.