Cat Using toilet and toilet paper

On Sep 12, 4:44*am, Jack Campin - bogus address
wrote:


One I used in Romania last year:

http://www.campin.me.uk/Travel/Roman...hoolToilet.jpg



You used that!
One look at it and I would have developed severe constipation for a
month!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

MatSav wrote:
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Yowie wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message

OMG

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQbHS4YJOMc&NR=1
Amazing!

BTW - there was a aweful lot of water in that pan. Is that
normal?

Yowie


When ou said "pan" did you mean the toilet? If so, the answer
is
yes. MLB
Pan= where the business goes.
Bowl= the ceramic part
Cistern= the water storage & delivery system
Toilet= the whole structure

There's only a small amount of water, right down the bottom of
our toilets. Maybe less risk of splashback?

Toilets are fascinating pieces of engineering, and the different
designs around the world can be somewhat confusing.

The USofA seem to use bowls with a higher water level in the pan
than those in the UK. In much of Europe, there's a 'shelf' on the
front inside edge of the bowl where business is deposited (for
inspection?) before flushing, and not straight into the standing
water of the S-(or U-)bend vapour trap.

Much of the [human] world sees defaecation as a normal bodily
function that is a great indicator of health (or otherwise), and
in less developed countries, defaecation in public is seen as
nothing unusual (particularly with children). In my opinion, we
have a somewhat strange and prudish attitude in the UK. Our
'bathrooms' are often placed at almost inaccessible parts of
public buildings, and eliminating is seen as something to be
hidden. It's something we all have to do, so why hide it?

If you're seriously (or strangely?) interested in this, and I
don't mean in a perverse way, there's the wonderful
http://www.poopreport.com



I know I am in good company when I consider the flush toilet as one of
the freatest inventions. MLB

MatSav wrote:

The USofA seem to use bowls with a higher water level in the pan
than those in the UK. In much of Europe, there's a 'shelf' on the
front inside edge of the bowl where business is deposited (for
inspection?) before flushing, and not straight into the standing
water of the S-(or U-)bend vapour trap.

Hmm. I don't remember seeing this shelf in Germany or any other European
country that I've visited. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. :P

What has struck me about plumbing in other parst of Europe is that the
water pressure seems to be so much lower than here in Finland. Here, you
just have to stand under the shower half a minute to be soaked, but you
don't have to go further than Denmark, and the water pressure is so low
you stand there and the water dribbles and dribbles and you never get
completely wet. Afraid I've had the same experience in England.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban.
In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

On Sep 12, 9:37*am, Marina wrote:
Afraid I've had the same experience in England.



Yep water pressure over here isn't always that good- when I put our
shower on it has to be full blast just to get a decent spray because
ours is just attached to the main water supply. Most showers have
accessory pumps to boost the water pressure

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Marina kirjoitti:
MatSav wrote:

The USofA seem to use bowls with a higher water level in the pan than
those in the UK. In much of Europe, there's a 'shelf' on the front
inside edge of the bowl where business is deposited (for inspection?)
before flushing, and not straight into the standing water of the S-(or
U-)bend vapour trap.

Hmm. I don't remember seeing this shelf in Germany or any other European
country that I've visited. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention. :P

What has struck me about plumbing in other parst of Europe is that the
water pressure seems to be so much lower than here in Finland. Here, you
just have to stand under the shower half a minute to be soaked, but you
don't have to go further than Denmark, and the water pressure is so low
you stand there and the water dribbles and dribbles and you never get
completely wet. Afraid I've had the same experience in England.


Just checked from the German Wiki on toilets, the shelf version
(Flachspüler) was more common before the 90's. And as I graduated in
-82, and bro studied in Augsburg in the 80's too, we still remember the
shelf version vividly.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilette

--
Christine in Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com

Cheryl wrote:
MatSav wrote:

Toilets are fascinating pieces of engineering, and the different
designs around the world can be somewhat confusing.

The USofA seem to use bowls with a higher water level in the pan than
those in the UK. In much of Europe, there's a 'shelf' on the front
inside edge of the bowl where business is deposited (for inspection?)
before flushing, and not straight into the standing water of the S-(or
U-)bend vapour trap.

Much of the [human] world sees defaecation as a normal bodily function
that is a great indicator of health (or otherwise), and in less
developed countries, defaecation in public is seen as nothing unusual
(particularly with children). In my opinion, we have a somewhat
strange and prudish attitude in the UK. Our 'bathrooms' are often
placed at almost inaccessible parts of public buildings, and
eliminating is seen as something to be hidden. It's something we all
have to do, so why hide it?

Because things being natural and done by everyone isn't automatically
connected with either doing it privately or the location of public toilets?

I've always thought that the older the building, the more likely it was
that indoor toilets were added as an afterthought, whereever they could
be squeezed in. I'd expect that to have happened more often in the UK
than in North America, although I well remember a building I attended a
couple of dances in. It was originally built in the 1800s for one of
those men-only fraternal organizations that eventually sold it in order
to buy something cheaper and easier to maintain. During the last of
their reign and under the new owners, the place was rented out for
dances (among other events), since although shabby, it had a large room
with a hardwood floor plus a bar. The mens' toilet was in a sensible and
accessible place on the main floor. The womens' toilet, clearly an
afterthought, was in the basement, down a long flight of stairs and
along a corridor.

Some European homes I've been in had the toilet and bathtub in different
rooms, which was rather odd to my eyes!

I have never really adjusted to the hole-in-the-floor type, no matter
how often I'm told that it's more natural to crouch down instead of
sitting, and that they're as clean as any other (when in private homes,
not necessarily in public locations, but we all know not all public
toilets are clean), and they use less water so are more environmentally
sensitive. My knees just don't take a lot of bending, and I really think
that if you want to keep them clean, you need to practice your aim.

Of course, that's true for sit-down toilets, too. Especially for men.



Memory from long ago: In the "old days" a builder would build a second
house in the lot behind the first house. While water might have bee
piped in for household use, there would be no toilet. The front house
would have a toilet room outside on the back of the house. People in
the second house would use a "chamber pot" at night which they would
have to empty in the morning. one of the big problems was in winter the
pipes could freeze. I also remember our elementary school had an
outside toilet at the back of the building. As a kid, I tried to use it
once -- no deal, it was filthy Today most new houses here have multiple
bathrooms and stores have very nice, clean facilities. MLB

On Sep 12, 10:11*am, MLB wrote:
.. one of the big problems was in winter the
pipes could freeze. *

Don't remind me!

The first 2 years we lived here the housing had not lagged the water
pipes coming into the building properly and didn't seem too concerned
about this but we certainly were! For a week or three (the second
time) we had no water coming in for the kitchen and bathroom and were
grateful that 1. When we moved we had brought those 40 gallon bins
from when we tried to make some home brew and 2. There was a garage
opposite that allowed us to fill them up

We had a few nights out that started with one of us saying they had to
go to the pub because they needed to....sugar if you get my drift and
would rather use a loo where you could flush from the cistern rather
than having to empty a few gallons of our hard carried water down the
loo

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

"moonglow minnow" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:

I should give away the two sacks of litter that I have, too. Come to
terms that I do not need it now.

The moment you do, you'll have a "visitor" that prefers the indoor
facilities to outside.

LOL! That would be just my luck.

I don't think so though. This is a great place for kitties to wander,
hardly any traffic at the front of the house and acres behind to look at
mice and rats around the chicken huts.
Kitty FC only started using litter boxes when she forgot about outside in
her old age. I set two up, one upstairs and one downstairs when she started
peeing and pooing on the carpets and she used them faithfully after that.
I still have one litter box downstairs. Boyfie says he'd rather die than
pee or poo in the house.

Tweed
P.S. I know where he goes.. he poos in my compost heap and wees on my
neighbours path which is covered with leaves, both a hundred yards away.
He doesn't know that I know

"Marina" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:

I I know it's possible to train indoor cats to pee/poo in the toilet
(they do not flush, leading to embarrassment if a visiting friend needs
to use your facilities)

Caliban often flushes my toilet, because it is flushed by a button on the
tank, and he often waltzes around there and accidentally steps on the
button. The weirdest thing is when he steps on the button while I'm using
the 'throne'. Unfortunately, he hasn't taken to using the toilet instead
of the litter box. My sister's cat, Linus, did learn to use the toilet,
just by watching my sister.

Really? What a clever boy. I understood it was quite a long process to
train a cat to use the toilet using a litter box on the seat and going from
there.
Tweed

Cheryl wrote:

Some European homes I've been in had the toilet and bathtub in
different rooms, which was rather odd to my eyes!

My home is like that, but the rooms are immediately adjacent to
each other. How else would you wash your hands after using the
"smallest room"? (It does mean, of course, that door handles need
more cleaning than they would if the toilet and tub / shower were
in the same room).

--
MatSav