Cat suddenly starts to use toilet to pee

calaf wrote:

I'm sitting at this computer the other night and I hear a sound of
flowing water coming from my nearby bathroom. I turn my head and I see
the cat I adopted about 8 months ago squatted on the toilet seat, peeing
down into the bowl. He apparently has perfect aim, too. Not a drop on
the seat.

Well then, he puts many human males to shame.

Could a cat learn to use the toilet without having been taught first by
another human? Or is it something he's doing by instinct?

I don't think there's anything in feline evolution that would have
prepared them for a toilet bowl. So, I'd say it's not instinct.
However, cats do learn by observation, and it's not just other cats
they're observing. A little scary, isn't it?

Sounds like a smart kitty! Teach him to flush!

Joyce

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Well then, he puts many human males to shame.

Hey! You try aiming at 3am with the lights off! ;-)


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Well then, he puts many human males to shame.

Hey! You try aiming at 3am with the lights off! ;-)


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"Hans Schrøder" wrote in message
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"calaf" wrote in message
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Could a cat learn to use the toilet without having been taught first by
another human? Or is it something he's doing by instinct?

Very bizarre.

Tinùviel uses the kitchen sink for peeing. And that is something she has
found out all by herself, she has definitely not seen me doing that kind
of
thing there. Before she found out about the kitchen sink, she used to go
to
the drain in the bathroom floor and use that...

My mother's uncle was a farmer who had a beloved cat named Gray. Whenever
her uncle would go to the barn to milk the cows, Gray would accompany him.
One day it occurred to him to wonder where she was going to the john since
the barn was closed up tight and was extremely neat and clean and he had
never seen any evidence she was going on the floor. So he started watching
her to see. It took a while but he finally saw her way over in one corner
where she had found the one and only knothole in the huge planks that made
up the floor. She very neatly did her business through the knothole, never
leaving even a drop on the planks. He thought this was funny as hell and
told the story for the rest of his life.


Anyway, It's both cute and practical. It gives me less work cleaning the
litter box.

Hans

"Hans Schrøder" wrote in message
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"calaf" wrote in message
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Could a cat learn to use the toilet without having been taught first by
another human? Or is it something he's doing by instinct?

Very bizarre.

Tinùviel uses the kitchen sink for peeing. And that is something she has
found out all by herself, she has definitely not seen me doing that kind
of
thing there. Before she found out about the kitchen sink, she used to go
to
the drain in the bathroom floor and use that...

My mother's uncle was a farmer who had a beloved cat named Gray. Whenever
her uncle would go to the barn to milk the cows, Gray would accompany him.
One day it occurred to him to wonder where she was going to the john since
the barn was closed up tight and was extremely neat and clean and he had
never seen any evidence she was going on the floor. So he started watching
her to see. It took a while but he finally saw her way over in one corner
where she had found the one and only knothole in the huge planks that made
up the floor. She very neatly did her business through the knothole, never
leaving even a drop on the planks. He thought this was funny as hell and
told the story for the rest of his life.


Anyway, It's both cute and practical. It gives me less work cleaning the
litter box.

Hans

Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Cat suddenly starts to use toilet to pee:

wrote:
Well then, he puts many human males to shame.
Hey! You try aiming at 3am with the lights off! ;-)

Sheesh, I'm not sure my DH aims terribly well in broad daylight, and
you'd think that those things would *be* more aimable! I've considered
a bulls-eye in a suitable spot in the Bowl. :-)

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doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
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Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Cat suddenly starts to use toilet to pee:

wrote:
Well then, he puts many human males to shame.
Hey! You try aiming at 3am with the lights off! ;-)

Sheesh, I'm not sure my DH aims terribly well in broad daylight, and
you'd think that those things would *be* more aimable! I've considered
a bulls-eye in a suitable spot in the Bowl. :-)

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:16:29 -0800, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled:

Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Cat suddenly starts to use toilet to pee:

wrote:
Well then, he puts many human males to shame.
Hey! You try aiming at 3am with the lights off! ;-)

Sheesh, I'm not sure my DH aims terribly well in broad daylight, and
you'd think that those things would *be* more aimable! I've considered
a bulls-eye in a suitable spot in the Bowl. :-)

How about these?
http://www.hipbaby.com/catalog/piddler_s_toilet_targets_1522564.htm


Theresa
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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:16:29 -0800, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled:

Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Cat suddenly starts to use toilet to pee:

wrote:
Well then, he puts many human males to shame.
Hey! You try aiming at 3am with the lights off! ;-)

Sheesh, I'm not sure my DH aims terribly well in broad daylight, and
you'd think that those things would *be* more aimable! I've considered
a bulls-eye in a suitable spot in the Bowl. :-)

How about these?
http://www.hipbaby.com/catalog/piddler_s_toilet_targets_1522564.htm


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Kreisleriana wrote:
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:16:29 -0800, Seanette Blaylock
yodeled:

Victor Martinez had some very interesting things to
say about Cat suddenly starts to use toilet to pee:

wrote:
Well then, he puts many human males to shame.
Hey! You try aiming at 3am with the lights off! ;-)

Sheesh, I'm not sure my DH aims terribly well in broad daylight, and
you'd think that those things would *be* more aimable! I've
considered a bulls-eye in a suitable spot in the Bowl. :-)

How about these?
http://www.hipbaby.com/catalog/piddler_s_toilet_targets_1522564.htm


Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Those are good - but I remember seeing something that attched to the
underside of the toilet lid, so that when the lid was lifted, it
automatically turned on and projected a red taget (you know those concentric
circles) down onto the water in the bowl.

You'd thing that if they can go and write their name(s) in the snow, they
could actually *not* hit the seat or rim????


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