How to Litter Train A Kitten
Friday, February 13th, 2009 at
12:57 pm
Rona Limsy asked:
If the mother cat is still in the home and she is already litter trained, then litter training her kittens is a natural process. Her kittens will simply follow what she does. However, ultimately, each cat should have its own litter tray or else it may create a host of other litter tray problems for you!
For most kitten owners, the mother cat is not in the home if the kitten was orphaned or purchased. But this is not a problem. It is easy to litter train a cat when it's still a little kitten. Cats are creatures of habit and it may not be as easy to litter train once they have become used to their favorite toilet spots.
The key to litter training a kitten is to let it get used to the litter tray as soon as possible. You will need to manually place your kitten onto the tray initially, as it is neither used to it nor is it able to climb over the edge to get in.
Most kittens would defecate soon after waking up and after a meal. You could place your kitten in the litter tray during these times and after a few weeks, your kitten would get used to the routine and it would become a habit.
Just be sure to place the litter tray a reasonable distance away from where the kitten is fed and where it sleeps. Cats and kittens are fastidious creatures and do not like to do their toilet near where they eat and sleep.
When a kitten is still very young, it will not be able to "cover up" very well after its toilet, as most adult cats are capable of. But you don't have to worry about this. Once they are about 1 to 2 months old, they will instinctively know how to cover up their ****.
In the wild or in the garden, cats will scoop soil and earth to cover but in the home, if you provide commercial cat litter, they will naturally scoop the litter to cover up the ****. You will notice, even if you only provide a newspaper for their soiling, your kitten will still scoop at the newspaper in an instinctive act to cover up their ****.
Although you can expect to pick up **** after your kitten in the first few weeks, litter training a kitten is relatively easy and can be 100% trouble-free once it gets used to the routine of using the litter tray.
If the mother cat is still in the home and she is already litter trained, then litter training her kittens is a natural process. Her kittens will simply follow what she does. However, ultimately, each cat should have its own litter tray or else it may create a host of other litter tray problems for you!
For most kitten owners, the mother cat is not in the home if the kitten was orphaned or purchased. But this is not a problem. It is easy to litter train a cat when it's still a little kitten. Cats are creatures of habit and it may not be as easy to litter train once they have become used to their favorite toilet spots.
The key to litter training a kitten is to let it get used to the litter tray as soon as possible. You will need to manually place your kitten onto the tray initially, as it is neither used to it nor is it able to climb over the edge to get in.
Most kittens would defecate soon after waking up and after a meal. You could place your kitten in the litter tray during these times and after a few weeks, your kitten would get used to the routine and it would become a habit.
Just be sure to place the litter tray a reasonable distance away from where the kitten is fed and where it sleeps. Cats and kittens are fastidious creatures and do not like to do their toilet near where they eat and sleep.
When a kitten is still very young, it will not be able to "cover up" very well after its toilet, as most adult cats are capable of. But you don't have to worry about this. Once they are about 1 to 2 months old, they will instinctively know how to cover up their ****.
In the wild or in the garden, cats will scoop soil and earth to cover but in the home, if you provide commercial cat litter, they will naturally scoop the litter to cover up the ****. You will notice, even if you only provide a newspaper for their soiling, your kitten will still scoop at the newspaper in an instinctive act to cover up their ****.
Although you can expect to pick up **** after your kitten in the first few weeks, litter training a kitten is relatively easy and can be 100% trouble-free once it gets used to the routine of using the litter tray.
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Only one of my three dogs does that. Oh, and not his own.
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I don't think you will have any problems litter box training your kitten. Just make sure you keep the box clean all of the time. That is one cause of cats going potty else where. Empty the box out once a week and wash it with hot water and a little detergent. Fill it back up with a few inches of good quality litter. Poops should be scooped out at least once a day. Once you choose a brand of litter, don't change it as the kitten will only get confused if you change the type or brand that you started off with. Don't be moving the box around either. Once you put it in a place, leave it. If you keep moving it around, kitty will get confused and won't know where to go potty.
All you have to do is take kitty and put him or her in the box and make the motions of digging with it's front legs and paws. After that kitty should be fine in using the litter box. You may have to try it a few times, but, normally you only have to do it once.
I really hope this helps you in litter box training your new kitten.
Oooh, sorry about that.
yeah… ive been on their site but does anyone know a free way to toilet train a cat? My parents dont like the idea of buying stuff online because they think its all a scam
But don't you have to litter train it.
put it in its litter box and draw its paw inand across the litter as if its digging, then ur kitten will know what he/she is supposed to do, i just recently got a kitten and she learned this first time, if it dosent work, try again, it may take a couple of times before she/he understands, good luck and remember 5 weeks is still young.