Help!! Kitty doesnt like cat litter!

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Yeah, seriously, he now does it facing the rear wall and we have to be quiet.

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I've not yet had a cat that uses the commode for all of it's business but three of my cats have used it for urinating.

I've never actually made effort to train them to do this so I imagine it probably is a fairly easy thing for them to learn. I was living alone with two of them and the bathroom door was never closed so they had plenty of exposure to discover exactly what use I had for that odd bowl of water on a pedestal.

I also tended to leave the lid up - a habit that changed when I got my dog. Bonny (my current cat) has started showing interest in the "odd bowl" so perhaps I'll start leaving the lid up to see what she does.

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Dear gata

2 litters is absolutely enough for 3 cats. This is really not the problem.

The problem is that your Baby wasn't trained to go on the toilet from the young age. I teach my kittens to do so when they are 3 weeks until 1 month old. After this is too late!

I very want to hope but I don't think that your baby will ever go on the cat toilet.

Besides this, as I understand, Baby is a domestic cat, right?

Usually this kind of cats like nature and they like to do their business outside and they don't understand what and how to do it into the house.

There is no reason to take your cat to the vet. The vet will just milk money from you, believe me.

I only can give you a couple of advices:

there are no cleaning detergents in zooshops, either at vet shop. Nah-ha!

the only thing which absolutely kills the smell of cat pi-pi is Chlor. Yea, this is not very nice material. But if you desolve about 50 ml to 0,5 liter, it will not make too much smell of chlor and this is enough to kill the urine stink. If you have wooden floor, then put this liquid on the floor for few seconds and then rince it with water. And... pray that the chlor doesn' take the colour of the floor of.

One more advice:

just to try (who knows, maybe it works )

put Baby on the cat sand and stimulate his genitalien with your finger, gently, during ... few seconds until 1 minute. If he gets crazy from this procedure, then you just can forget about trying teaching him to do pi-pi NOT on the floor.

This is the only way you can do.

I really wish you good luck!

Kindest regards,

Zhanna

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Is he neutered? 4-month old is about the age that a male kitty can start marking... I am thinking maybe that's the cause of the problem? And if you don't get them fixed early enough, it could become a long term problem.

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Just wondering how long it took you to train your cat and at what age was the cat?

I bought a training kit from the US and brought it over with me since I think it will be much easier for me and the cats now that we are in a small apartment instead of a big house (don't want apartment to smell like cat litters all the time). I haven't started using the kit yet since I will be out on vacation pretty soon, but plan on starting the training as soon as I come back. Would be nice to know how long it took your cat to learn it and at what age?

Also, do you know if there is any toilet flushable litters here that I can buy during the training process? Just don't want accidental litters falling into the toilet and clog up the thing.

THANKS!

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Thanks for the help

We are trying but there is no way to know when he wants to go to the toilet. He is a bit wild (same as daddy) so he doesnt even come near us. But will try all the things siggested here and hopefully something will work!

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I made the process take longer - total of around 4 months and he was 12 months when he started but I don't think it matters about age. It's not really about ability to learn, they just get used to it. I didnt use flushable litter - you only need to use a very light sprinkling to coat it - not much goes into the bowl at any one time. At every stage I used to put my cat on the toilet at least once a day.

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Did you try to put kitty in his litter each time after he had his *meal* ?

A Closed litter (he can be shy...)

A smaller litter (he doesn't like to get lost in the *adult* litter or he can have some difficulties to enter it like he need to *jump* in)

Don't reprimand he

put some infused valerian in his litter

test another brand of litter

put the litter in a more peaceful place

could add some more but perhaps he just doesn't like you ...

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Excuse me, kittens in the age of 4 moths old dont' mark yet.

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Well.... we've had 5 cats total and out of them, one did start marking at 4.5mo...... And as soon as we got him fixed, problem solved immediately! The recommended age to get them neutured is around 6mo... It's just something worth discussing with the vet...

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They do. At least ours did at about three months. Once he was neutered, he was fine...

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At 4 months old kittens don't have yet the hormons for marking, so they don't mark in this age. Not trained to go to the cat toilet kittens just do their business in the corners. The minimum age in very hypersexual cats is 6-7 months old

I had about 15 litters during 5 last years (I am a cat breeder), so I have the experience

Actually, you can read a lot of information about cats and kittens on my Home Page.

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Lifting up tail, backing up to vertical surface, dancing paws and a spray...that's marking, and our guy did that around three months...

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Wow! I have never heared about that sexual kittens!

You're very lucky, ah?

Good to know, thank you for the information .

I think this can be when kittens have hormonal disorder from wrong feeding for example, or it just geneticly like this.

Anyway, now I will change our reqire from 6-7 months to 4 months old for castration in contract

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In USA vets castrate kittens in the age of 2-3 months even.

I don't think it's good because the anastesy brings the immune system down, so cannot be good for a kitten which just started eating by itself and probabely doesn't have any vaccinations yet.

Anyway, the castration is a good solution for a not breeding cat.

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Yes, they've started early there. I think mostly as a preventative measure, as so many people adopt cats and then don't bother to have them spayed or neutered, and thereby often increasing the unwanted cat population. That's a fairly new thing, I suppose the past 10 years or so. In the states, cats start to get their shots at 8 weeks (that is the minimum age a shelter will adopt out kittens), so hopefully they've had their shots and then a week or so later the castration. I don't think they do females that early, though....

I can't emphasize it strongly enough -as you say castration is a good solution. Pet cats (not used for breeding) should always be spayed or neutered! They are much happier without their hormones bouncing around inside, and the world is better off without unwanted kittens.

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I don't undesrtand, the Quick Replay doesn't wark here?

Ok, doesnt matter

For Gata or someone else, maybeit could be usufulidea:

http://www.litterkwitter.com/en/index.php?gclid=CKrL9a-JmJ8CFUgTzAod_TC-6g

and here:

http://www.litterkwitter.com/en/hiw_vid.html

I am going to try it with my new kittens which will come next time (I hope)