Cat Using toilet and toilet paper

Adrian wrote:
MLB wrote:
Adrian wrote:
Yowie wrote:
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MatSav wrote:

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?
I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself
- but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost
forbidden to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal
about urination - "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc.
But everyone's so discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to
"use the bathroom". I have one friend who always says "I have to
sit in the bathroom". Oh, really?
Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is
that about?
For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of
nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his
efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say
about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular
individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our
own backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the
toilet, we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running
commentary about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big
fuss just months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do the
wiping.

Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine got
togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all
roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and
chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns
to our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining
about her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of
us chip in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion
about poo as we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one
who hasn't had kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking
rather..... green. For the rest of us, dealing with other people's
poo is such a normal every day affair it had simply become a fact
of life, and we had forgotten that other people have certain
sensitivities to the subject, *especially* whilst eating.
Yowie
10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother
wipe your bottom?" :-)



And your replu was????
MLB

I'm not telling you. ;-)


Good boy!
Best wishes. MLB

MLB wrote:
Adrian wrote:
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Adrian wrote:
Yowie wrote:
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MatSav wrote:

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?
I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself
- but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost
forbidden to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal
about urination - "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc.
But everyone's so discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to
"use the bathroom". I have one friend who always says "I have to
sit in the bathroom". Oh, really?
Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is
that about?
For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of
nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his
efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say
about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular
individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our
own backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the
toilet, we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running
commentary about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big
fuss just months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do the
wiping.

Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine got
togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all
roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and
chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns
to our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining
about her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of
us chip in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion
about poo as we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one
who hasn't had kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking
rather..... green. For the rest of us, dealing with other people's
poo is such a normal every day affair it had simply become a fact
of life, and we had forgotten that other people have certain
sensitivities to the subject, *especially* whilst eating.
Yowie
10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother
wipe your bottom?" :-)



And your replu was????
MLB

I'm not telling you. ;-)


Good boy!
Best wishes. MLB



a few days ago I was telling my son about the cat that used the toilet
and sent him the pictures. Yesterday I asked him if he had looked at
the message. He said he had and had started looking at it when he said
to himself "Why am I here looking at a picture of a CAT POOPING?"
LOL MLB

Cheryl wrote:
ScratchMonkey wrote:
"Jofirey" wrote in news:7h7vdlF2sejc9U1
@mid.individual.net:

Funny how what was old is new again. In an effort to make the
'master bath' in my daughters three year old house more classy, the
toilet itself is in what is essentially a closet off the room with
the shower and huge tub and double sinks etc. Personally I think the
architect underestimated the amount of room needed to set aside for a
toilet with the door closed. I thought our toilet/shower off out
bedroom was tiny!

How big does a public restroom stall need to be? Seems like that would
be a good guideline for how much floor space to allocate.

You have to consider how the door opens. I encountered one toilet - just
the toilet and a sink - in a public area in which the door opened
inward, but only so far because the toilet was behind it. It was all I
could do to squeeze around the door and past the sink so I could close
the door.


A "hefty" person probably couldn't do it. MLB

Adrian wrote:
Yowie wrote:
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MatSav wrote:

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?

I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself -
but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost forbidden
to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal about urination
- "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc. But everyone's so
discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to "use the bathroom".
I have one friend who always says "I have to sit in the bathroom".
Oh, really?
Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is
that about?

For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of
nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his
efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say
about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular
individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our own
backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the toilet,
we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running commentary
about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big fuss just
months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do the wiping.

Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine got
togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all
roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and
chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns to
our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining about
her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of us chip
in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion about poo as
we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one who hasn't had
kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking rather..... green.
For the rest of us, dealing with other people's poo is such a normal
every day affair it had simply become a fact of life, and we had
forgotten that other people have certain sensitivities to the
subject, *especially* whilst eating.
Yowie

10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother
wipe your bottom?" :-)

g

I was shocked when my cousin's boy needed a poo and called his mother/father
to wipe him. He was 8.
8 years old and can't wipe his own bottom? FGS.

Tweed

wrote:
MatSav wrote:

The USofA seem to use bowls with a higher water level in the pan
than those in the UK.

We have newer, "low-flow" toilets with much lower water levels.
They're a lot more efficient in terms of conserving water. I used to
have one in my apartment, but unfortunately, the plumbing is so bad
here that the low-flow toilet just doesn't provide enough force to
get everything down. So the landlord had to replace it with a
water-wasting one.

In much of Europe, there's a 'shelf' on the
front inside edge of the bowl where business is deposited (for
inspection?) before flushing

Seriously, what is the purpose of that? I have never seen a shelf in
a toilet, and I'm not sure I'd want to.


It's startling for a Brit in Germany, to be sure. We are used to our liquid
& solid waste going straight into water and being flushed away. Not so
there. What you do goes onto a porcelain shelf for you to examine before
you flush it away. Why? I don't know. Would you like me to ask N why?
She'll tell me if I ask.
We've promised to tell each other what we need to know about our language
and culture, like "is bugger a friendly word in English, what does it mean?"
If I can do that she can tell me what I want to know about European toilets.

Tweed

]

"Christina Websell" wrote in
:

Exactly. But I wanted to as she was so awful, but she searched me
from head to foot, and I kept quiet. N was livid when I told her.
She said no way she did not speak English, everyone employed at the
airport has to and she deliberately chose not to.

Penn Jillette's my hero on this:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/colum...3-penn-teller-
tsa_N.htm

http://www.boingboing.net/2003/01/04...te-airpor.html

Christina Websell wrote:
Adrian wrote:
Yowie wrote:
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MatSav wrote:

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?

I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself
- but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost
forbidden to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal
about urination - "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc.
But everyone's so discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to
"use the bathroom". I have one friend who always says "I have to
sit in the bathroom". Oh, really?
Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is
that about?

For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of
nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his
efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say
about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular
individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our own
backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the toilet,
we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running commentary
about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big fuss just
months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do the wiping.

Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine got
togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all
roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and
chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns
to our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining
about her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of
us chip in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion
about poo as we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one
who hasn't had kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking
rather..... green. For the rest of us, dealing with other people's
poo is such a normal every day affair it had simply become a fact
of life, and we had forgotten that other people have certain
sensitivities to the subject, *especially* whilst eating.
Yowie

10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother
wipe your bottom?" :-)

g

I was shocked when my cousin's boy needed a poo and called his
mother/father to wipe him. He was 8.
8 years old and can't wipe his own bottom? FGS.

Tweed

I think most 8 year olds would be far too embarrassed to ask, at least I
hope they would.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

Adrian wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

I was shocked when my cousin's boy needed a poo and called his
mother/father to wipe him. He was 8.
8 years old and can't wipe his own bottom? FGS.

Tweed

I think most 8 year olds would be far too embarrassed to ask, at least I
hope they would.

How did he manage in school?

--
Cheryl

"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:12:16 +0000, ScratchMonkey wrote:

wrote in
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It's funny that your mom thought "toilet" was a naughty word - that
word was itself a euphemism. "Toilette" is a French word for
washing, ablutions, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

While my mother generally did have an earthy sense of humor, and
didn't have any hesitation about calling the appliance itself a
toilet, she always used the euphemism "T-Paper" instead of "toilet
paper".

I'd never heard of anyone being discreet about toilet paper until I joined
Usenet - it seems only to be Americans that tend not to say the full words.
Don't know why.

Around here, its the 'bog roll'. LOL

Yowie


--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.

"Joy" wrote in message

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Cheryl wrote:

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

I've seen a few homes in San Francisco that have that arrangement.
They're all Victorian homes, so that might have something to do with
it. In both houses, the room with the toilet (the "wc") has nothing
else - no sink, while the room with the tub has the sink. I think it
would make more sense to put the sink in the room with the toilet -
that's certainly more hygienic. Otherwise, though, I like the idea
of two separate rooms. You can take a long bath without feeling
guilty.

Joyce

--
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is
beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but
the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
-- Dave Barry

Many homes in Australia have the tub and/or shower in a different
room from the toilet. I visited one home where the toilet was in one
room, the bathtub and shower were in another, and the wash basin was
in a third room.

We have a small sink for washing hands in the bathroom, where the shower and
bath also are, a room for the toilet only, and the laundry which has the
washing machine, dryer and larger wash basin / laundry tub in it.

if I was redesigning the house, I'd make thelaundry alot smaller, and make
the bathroom much larger. The laundry room is a real waste of space, IMHO,
and could share with the toilet. Neither is the sort of room where you want
to spend any more time than strictly necessary.

Yowie
--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.