Cat Toilet Trainer

Product Description

Cats bury their waste in a litter tray to hide the odor from predators. This is a survival instinct. When they use the toilet instead of the litter tray the water in the pan hides the odor more effectively and the cat is satisfied. The Litter Kwitter leads the cat through three stages of behavior modification to teach the cat how to balance on the toilet, how to aim correctly into the pan and finally how to go without the need for litter.
It fits all standard toilets and ships with a step-by-step training DVD plus a full color instruction book so anyone can do it. The special white seat starts on the floor next to the toilet with the red training disc full of litter just like their regular litter tray. Later, the whole thing is placed on the toilet rim so your cat learns to hop up to go. This take around 2-3 weeks on average.
This award-winning product is sold in over 40 countries and has appeared on TV hundreds of times including BBC 1, BBC2, HGTV, Fox News, CNN and NBC.

Features

• Comes with a standard white seat that fits most standard toilet bowls (see measurement diagram)

Top Reviews

The poop trick
by Shuhu (5 out of 5 stars)
March 25, 2017

Ok so this has worked out to be a success, but I think there are some tricks/NECESSARY things you need to do for this to be successful.
1.) Right, so this is nasty, but when you get to the step of actually putting the system on the toilet, SAVE HIS POOP FROM HIS LITTER BOX. Oh my goodness, putting the poop there was what finally did the trick and helped him to use the red step, from his two day constipation.
2.) When you go onto the orange step, after he continuously is pooping at the red stage, again, save some urine/feces and put a bit in the toilet so that they smell it, and some on the outer ring. This was the only time we had our one accident, and all we did was pick it up (not with our bare hands haha) and toss it into the toilet with him watching. Keep them on the orange stage the longest, until they are consistently pooping into the center. Green stage is a piece of cake, make sure you don't flush the toilet when you are switching over from the last orange stage step!
3.) Let your cat get used to the toilet flushing all throughout. Put him up on a counter and let him watch. My cat loves it, although he was first afraid)
4.) Kind of watch your cat, or just like times when he uses the toilet throughout the day. I'm pretty sure there were a LOT of times during the orange stage where I knew he had to use the restroom and would go to the place where his old litter box would be, so I would take him to the toilet and make him sit on it. I did this at least five times with a lot of petting and treats, and I'm positive there might have been more accidents if I wasn't there.
5.) Get a litter mat and a stool with grooves. My cat jumps down onto it, and nearly all of the litter stays on the stool. This is just a nice bonus I'd recommend.

Typing that all up, it sounds like a lot of work, but it hasn't been bad. I only changed the stages over the weekends so that I'd be home to watch him. I wasn't there during the day on weekdays, so this isn't that time-costly. Maybe 15 min a day before, and longer when we changed stages. But all cats are different so keep that in mind!

Time taken: A month and a half! (go slower if need be!)

Total Accidents: 1, right next to the toilet.

Worth it? YES! The fact that I'm not paying for litter anymore-um Hallelujah.
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so proud of my toilet-trained cat!
by Agi (5 out of 5 stars)
November 28, 2015

My cat is now fully toilet trained and I am so happy about it. It took us about 3 months, and we did use the extra inserts (from the multi-cat Litter Kwitter kit), but all in all it went well. All I can say is : take your time, and don't give up on your cat. Don't listen to nay-sayers, it really can be done (see pic of Harold showing his skills). Hubby and I have been sharing the one bathroom with the cat, and we just removed the insert when we needed to use the toilet. My cat was a bit anxious when we switched to the orange ring, but I used a bit of tape to cover half the space and added a bit of litter over it, and then my cat went along with it. There is an old forum on the litterkwitter website (top page on "litterkwitter forum" google search) that has a suggestion for almost any cat training problem. What worked for us: treats and praise for every successful toilet use, filling the bath tub with water since the cat was terribly tempted to use it instead, and just patience. When the cat acted out, we cleaned everything with an enzyme cleaner, went back one ring and gave it a week or two more. Using a bit of tape to make the hole look bit smaller during transitions helped too. With the money I save on litter I can feed my cat more wet food, so really everyone is thrilled to be done with training!

Update 12/2016: Adopted another feral kitten and he is now toilet trained too! Have faith in your cat, they can do it!
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To bad I didn't have my phone but trust me It ...
by Amazon Customer (5 out of 5 stars)
January 2, 2018

My baby is still training and the video posted is older but believe me when I say this. If you already have the litter box in the bathroom your job is going to be easier. Lucky I started to move his litter box from the room to the bathroom when I first brought him home by then this product came in and I quickly switched. He had no issues transitioning but I did add a cardboard box to the floor to help him get up since he still was a kitten at the time but now he's going without issues. Litter does get into the toilet and the clean up is unbearable but let me go on by stating this first.

The litter tray hes training with at the moment is the orange tray and just today I at accidentally left the tray off and when I was brushing my teeth in the morning he got up on top of the white portion which holds the training trays and peed directly in the toilet!!!!!! You can only imagine the excitement I was feeling at the time. To bad I didn't have my phone but trust me It happened.

I'll of course be posting updates with video☺️
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Don't like sweeping up litter? This is not the answer.
by Dural (2 out of 5 stars)
March 12, 2016

Picked this up right after Christmas. It's the middle of March now, and I'm done. Going back to the litter box.

For one thing, unless you're at home all day, it is simply not possible to train your cats to use this thing. But even if you are home all day, like me, be aware that the price tag on the Litter Kwitter is nonsense. You're going to go through more cleaning supplies than you ever have in your life as your cats fight using this thing every step of the way. I tried this out in the hopes my cats wouldn't track litter all over the apartment anymore; I've swept up more litter and mopped more times in the last three months than the prior two years of cat ownership.

Then, unless you want to set up a base camp in the bathroom like David Attenborough and live there while your cats are learning for months - and it will take months, if it works at all - you're going to need to invest in a baby camera to monitor the situation. Cats don't want to feel plastic or porcelain under their paws as they dump; they want to feel sand, and that's how they'll sit, with their front paws in the litter and their ass hanging over the edge, going directly onto the floor. So every time you notice them squaring up, you'll need to run in there and spin them around. Every time. For months.

They might understand, they might not. They'll pee in it, but they won't poop. They'll poop in it, but they'll pee in the bathtub. If one cat uses it, the other will go somewhere else. If one cat pees in it and it goes uncleaned for fifteen minutes because you went to the store, that same cat will poop somewhere else. They'll hold all their waste in for two days, wait until you're asleep, and then go wherever they want.

If your cats seem comfortable and have been hitting the mark for a couple weeks while you pump them full of treats for every success, don't worry, you can ruin all that just by switching to the next tray. And if you just switched from the solid red tray to the orange one they can see the water through, God help you, because they lose all association with the toilet as a place they should evacuate waste. This is something I think is disingenuous of Litter Kwitter: they sell intermediary trays, found under "Doogie's Litter Kwitter Toilet Training MultiKatKit" which are absolutely necessary. The hole in the standard orange tray is large enough for a cat to fit their head through, and completely puts them off using the system. Many other users have said as much.

So, as a final tally: buy Litter Kwitter, quit your job, buy a baby camera, buy the absolutely necessary "optional" kit, buy a palette of cleaning supplies, never sleep, monitor the toilet cam, explain to suspicious friends why you have a camera pointed at your toilet, alienate your cats by shutting them in the bathroom at night, feel sad that they aren't sleeping on your bed anymore, leave the door open again, wake up to pee in your bed, wash your sheets, clean caked-on pee out of the tray, sweep up litter, glance at the toilet cam and see a dark blob on the floor next to the toilet that you missed because you had to do something else for five God-damned minutes, pick up poop, mop, regress to the previous tray for three weeks, try switching in the next tray again, get lulled into a false sense of security when there are no accidents for a few days, then walk out into the living room and sit down on a pee-saturated couch.

Then write an Amazon review while you order a litter box.
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FYI for Cat Parents with Multiple Cats
by Jamee Choi (5 out of 5 stars)
February 28, 2018

So this product says use for cats 3 months and older. I got my kittens started at 8 weeks old. I put a makeshift litter box right next to the toilet, they used the box for a week, then I placed the red pan in the box for a few days, then moved it up to the toilet, placed a box for the kittens to step onto where the makeshift litter box used to be. Both of them used it just fine up until the orange stage. About a week into the orange stage, my one cat stopped using it - cats get territorial so it's advised that each cat gets one litter box each and there's one more for extra. I only have one bathroom but fortunately for me, my cat who stopped using the toilet was such a good boy, he'd just go inside my shower and do his business, so all I had to do was turn the water on and wash down the urine, or pick up the stool with toilet paper, flush it down the toilet and clean the area with my shower head. My objective all along was to not spend money on litter and not have litter tracking throughout my one bedroom sanctuary so I didn't have a problem with him going in the shower. His brother progressed onto the green - last stage - and is doing phenomenal. They are 11 weeks old now, and I will not be spending any money on litter. Worth the investment. It does require patience, a lot of litter tracking during red and orange stages, I was sweeping/vacuuming multiple times a day, they were only in the red stage for several days before I lost my sh*t and changed them over to orange. I also happen to have a home office and spend 2/3 of my work hours at home, so I was able to pet them and give them treats whenever they went in the toilet which made it possible for me to accelerate the process. TMI Warning: I have had to become a quick sh*tter since my cats and I share one bathroom now, and I go to the bathroom less frequently as whenever I sit on the toilet and my 2 boys come up to me, I cannot for the life of me tell if they want attention or they need to use the toilet. Overall, my life feels pretty efficient since the introduction of this product into my household
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Great product, worked in 7 months
by AS (5 out of 5 stars)
November 1, 2018

My cat is 6 months old, adopted at 3 months. He's trainable with treats and eager to please so this system went smooth for us.

Tips:
- Introduce the flushable litter prior to starting. I used Rufus & Coco Wee Kitty Clumping Corn Cat Litter. This litter was awesome for easy clean up around the toilet with a broom. Dukey had a hard time getting use to the texture and seemed confused.
- Try to be there when your cat goes the first 2 days of each change of color. I fed early, then when he looked to dig in a corner or hop in the shower I picked him up and put him on the toilet "potty." Immediately following, gave a piece of chicken or cheese (good rewards = good behavior). If the litter box is not already in your bathroom, you might want to make that change first.
- I followed the timeline as given to switch disk. I wanted to change the orange disk earlier than 2 weeks, but week 2 was critical in getting the position finalized. Only did the green for a week.
- Get really excited after each use, and give really good treats. Clear the bathroom of rugs.
- Once trained, I taped a small note to the toilet lid as a reminder to keep open.

Dukey will use both our bathrooms, actually prefers the other one now.

This product seemed to work just as designed. There is a lot for the cat to learn (jumping up, balancing, getting into position, dealing with being over water, and quitting litter) but it's amazing watching them succeed.

Good luck!
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You need the right cat.
by BQ Quigley (3 out of 5 stars)
August 6, 2018

Boy is this shtick a process.

My 6 month old Sphynx is fearless, bold, social, adventurous. She took straight away to the red stage. Transitioned after two weeks to the orange--these guys are kidding with the jump in the size of the hole. I read the reviews here, bought the MultiCat pack. The new orange one has a smaller hole and--praise be--after three weeks of treating and praising and hanging out with my cat in the bathroom, I hear one night TINKLING. She is perfectly positioned with all four feet on the ledge, peeing right in the center. I'm not kidding you, I teared up with joy. I let this miracle continue for another week, and two days ago moved her up to the initial second stage.

The hole is still laughably larger, but everything went smooth for one day. Then the second day, I could tell she was getting stressed out, poor thing. Running around the house, sniffing the toilet, mewing a lot. She is suddenly a stricken, fearful animal, afraid of my purse, afraid of movement, leaping in the air if I gesture--afraid of her food bowl, afraid of her favorite chair. Pooed in my bras. She's phobic of that hole.

So I read some more reviews here, and I taped a tupperware lid beneath the hole and covered it with litter to try and make the world a less scary place for her. It's too late. She's straight up traumatized. Peed in her own bed, poor thing. So I set up the regular litter box again to give her a break and get her psyche back to neutral. She's scared of that now too. A few days ago she was tinkling in perfect pee position--I feel like I made that up in a dream.

Not sure where I'll go from here. If she recovers, maybe I'll start from scratch and transition her with the tupperware lid from the FIRST time I do the second amber stage. Losing faith and heart. It's a charming concept. I'm surprised it didn't work for my confident animal, and I'm depressed by what this process has reduced her to.
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you need to have a very chill cat for this
by Bratmaster (4 out of 5 stars)
December 7, 2017

Well this was an interesting adventure. I was determined that my 2 kittens (about 6-7 months old when we began the process) would be trainable. I did everything correctly and very slowly. And they were doing great. Until one day my girl peed on the sofa. She seemed a little more resistant about the process than her brother, though she was going along with it. Of course once she started that habit I couldn't get her to stop. We resorted to putting sheets of cardboard with sticky tape all over the sofa to keep her off. My male cat was a champ; he had no issues whatsoever. But for some reason, despite the fact that she had been doing well with it, my girl just got more and more stressed and having more accidents elsewhere. She really missed her litter box. I knew that if I brought it back, the boy would use it too, so basically I just gave it up after a good 4 months or so and went back to the litter box. It definitely depends on your cat, but it takes a very laid back cat to take to this, and I imagine a young one that isn't set in it's ways yet. I believe my boy could have been trained. A lot of problems also began when we went to the amber ring. The hole was WAY too big and my girl did not like it; that is when the accidents began. I then purchased the extra ring kit, but by then the damage was already done. I'm kicking myself for not having the extra rings from the beginning. You get one shot at it; if they associate anything negative with it, it's all over lol. So I recommend taking your time and getting the extra rings. Do NOT rush - expect this to be a long process. And it is messy as hell. I literally have OCD but I had to keep reminding myself what the payoff would eventually be (or so I thought!). The product itself is fine; could use some modifications to make the process a bit less messy I'm sure, but it mostly depends on your cat. Only the most laid back will take to this.
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It takes time and a lot of patience (and a lot of favorite treats also) but it definitely works
by IBart (4 out of 5 stars)
March 18, 2018

6 weeks and TADAAAAAA my 6 months old kitten is trained. She complained a lot, was wondering why I was so mean to her, but she is now using the toilet successfully. I also went from the green circle to nothing at all apparently (I was planning to go slower, but she started to use other toilets in the house without any circle at all .... It takes time and a lot of patience (and a lot of favorite treats also) but it definitely works.

I'm only giving this product 4 stars as the accompanying DVD never worked (I tried with several devices) and I wrote to the company but they never replied (Bad customer service, you're on your own). I did not complain to Amazon, but maybe I should have.

I think the younger your cat, the better your chances .... It's a little investment, of time and money, but the rewards are priceless: I live in a smell free, litter free house ....
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but that was just horrible! And yes
by Margarita Meer (1 out of 5 stars)
July 20, 2018

I couldn't even go through the stage zero. It was kind of OK to train cat using this litter box (red insert). But... when the cat stands inside, it often pees on top of the white part. So the pee stays there and smells and often also leaks outside. Well, a bit of mess was announced, but that was just horrible! And yes, the poop was also there. The cat was trying to cover it with the litter - so, litter was just everywhere!

I've tried different amounts of litter - from having almost nothing all the way through having it full so that the white part is at the level of the litter. The effect was still the same.

And one more thing - pee was getting between the parts. And since no litter can get there, it was super smelly.

So, I had to trash this kit being completely disappointed and really frustrated after all this smell and cleaning

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