I thought it's time for an update on the toilet training. It's been a week, and up until yesterday, Tora had been doing so well. He was regularly using the red litter kwitter after short outbursts of meowing what I could only translate as: 'Where is my litter tray? where should I poo?'. Yesterday he seemed completely confused, even after a week of knowing where he should go, and lots of encouragement and praise in the form of cat treats kindly sent by my family in England. I was getting ready to leave the apartment and I suddenly saw him scratching the blanket and pillows on the bed...looked like he was trying to hide something. I pulled back the covers and found a wet patch folded ever so carefully under the blanket. Bless his efforts for trying to hide it. He even looked embarassed by his mistake. Tora is not a devient cat and I did my best to avoid telling him off for his mistake. I'd like to say I acted completely calm during the situation, but being late for a meeting, I had a small hissy fit, and then kindly my bf took over the mess. He possibly has the patience of a saint.
Several hours later during watching The Black swan..which I want to say was a really dark and weird film that I switched off half way through...Tora once again used his litter kwitter tray :) yay. I was so happy I gave him 2 treats straight after...He must think I'm crazy.
This morning he managed once again to find his litter kwitter. I am keeping my fingers crossed he's on the right track. I won't give up trying.
I have once question if anybody is reading this who also has a cat...is your cat messy with litter? Tora always throws it all over the place..and I'm just wondering if this is usual behaviour?
Anyway...lets hope we're in for a week of no toilet mistakes :)
My male, 8 month old cat used to be very messy with litter - digging it used to send clouds of dust and litter around the room. We changed to a covered litter tray, and removed the door to it, and from clay to paper based litter (the stuff you can flush down the toilet and is the size of little pebbles), and we now have no problems at all.
ReplyDeleteI have heard covered litter trays are a good way to prevent litter mess. The flushable litter is my favorite litter choice!
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