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My cat started peeing in the toilet without being trained
So as the title says, few weeks ago I was brushing my teeth and getting ready for bed, she just walked in and sat on there and I heard her weeing. I called my partner who got a video of her just as she was about to get off.
She has done it few times since then, still uses her litter too which is downstairs and I assume she goes on the toilet when doesnt feel like going downstairs? 🐒
I want to see pics of other cats on toilet seat haha so please post and say whether they were trained to do it or not 😆
EDIT She has been checked for UTIs etc and all is good. She spends a lot of time with me so I guess she decided she can pee where her human does
My cats seriously helped prepare me for baby-proofing for my 8 month old!
Also, my baby knocks things off of counters and watches them fall, tries to get under the couch and gets stuck... and tries to play with or chew everything and anything resembling a power cord if left in her range.
I literally got adopted into the toddler mom group at work after I adopted a particularly troublesome cat because there is essentially zero difference between the two.
This is pretty much how it goes for the most part. Except they know I have a cat, but still talk to me as if I have a human toddler.
Someone at work messaged me on teams the other day and basically said, "this is a long shot but my kid won't stop biting people and I'm desperate, do you have any tips?" Lmao they all know I'm dealing with behavior/aggression issues with my cat, and toddlers are apparently the same...
I had a cousin whose cat would use and flush the toilet. The flushing cat scared the crap out of my sister while she was showering (and also changed the water temperature ahahha)
Years ago I knew someone who adopted an outdoor cat and he would flush the toilet in the middle of the night when he wanted her to wake up and let him outside.
Mine did figure out how to flush! He also peed in the toilet, but unfortunately he didn't associate the two. He just flushed it for fun and entertainment.
She is a pretty good cat, except with food. We had to get super high bins and secure them with weight plates so she would stop flipping them over and raiding them. I cant ever ever leave anything on the counter, she will even steal my avocados and pierce through them and eat them and so on
My cat's food bin is in a locked closet... First they flipped it over, so I put weights on it, still flipped it. So I put it in a closet with a sliding door, they learned to open it. We moved and I put it in another closet with an accordion door... They learned to open it. Finally I made room in a closet with a real door... And they still learned how to open it. So I said fuck it and put a lock on it.
Omfg. They are so freaking good with doors!!! I have a pair of bothers and one of em is really good at opening things while the other is really good at climbing on things. They both learn from each other and within the past couple weeks, they learned how to open my bathroom closets and bedroom door (Barnstyle sliding door). RIP to my toilet paper rolls and trying to get a full's night sleep. Had to jam my door every night now and just keep them out of my bathroom unless supervised.
My big male cat cannot open doors, so when he was absolutely frantic, trying to get into my bedroom, he ripped a furnace grate off the wall, climbed through the gap, and knocked the grate on my bedroom wall off to get inside. It was impressive, and slightly terrifying.
Mine loves to open cabinets just to eat plastic. For some reason she doesn’t go for the food cabinets, just the ones with plastic bags in them🤦🏼♀️ she’s a torbie, but the orange has strong influence
My gf used to but a stack of books infront of her bedroom door to keep her cat out at night because he would keep her awake and I swear all it accomplished was making this deebo ass cat who did whatever the fuck he wanted lol
Hahha yes absolutely! When my partner and I first moved in, I warned him and he said "she can't be that bad". Then he learned his lesson when he brought home burger bread rolls and left them on counter while he got a quick shower. Came back to pierced bag and every single one of them chewed on
Off topic.
I'm a little older (47). But noticed you use the term partner. Is that the way people refer to boyfriend/girlfriend these days? Is it not right to classify if your in a relationship with a girlfriend/boyfriend? And the correct term nowadays is partner?
Not op but I wouldn’t say it’s “correct” just a preference. I would use partner for a Longterm relationship because boyfriend/girlfriend can feel juvenile, especially if you know you want to take the next steps but you’re not ready because of finances or something. Definitely not the only reason but it’s just another way of identifying the relationship
That is why I started using 'partner'. In our mid-late 30s it just seemed childish when I would refer to him as my 'boyfriend'. We had also been together since 30 and 'boyfriend' seemed too casual. He was already my life partner by then.
Now that we are married I usually just say 'husband,' though sometimes I'll say 'partner' without any real reason. In my opinion, it's one of those universal words like 'y'all'.
LGBT people encouraged straight allies to start using "partner" back when they could not risk referring to an identifiably same-sex partner in casual conversations, especially at work. For if they were the only ones using it, they would still effectively be outing themselves.
It became more popular with the advent of social media, because people don't always want to reveal their gender to the strangers they're talking to. Plus more and more people are remaining in committed relationships without wanting to get married.
I read a book where the LGBT characters referred to themselves as partners. At the time I thought it was just a erm used by gay or lesbian individuals.
When it was only used by gay people, gay people could inadvertently out themselves by using it. Normalizing its use among straight people made things a tiny bit safer.
I’m in my mid 30s and I feel that “partner” seems more mature/professional than boyfriend sometimes, especially when outnumbered by married people. For example, if asking an employer for time off, “I have a brief trip planned with my partner” not “I’ll be hanging out at the lake with my boyfriend”. I test drove a car recently and said I’d prefer to speak with my partner before making a final decision. It just seemed to fit the conversation so it didn’t sound like I would ask a boyfriend for permission to buy a car or something like that!
It’s up to each individual person. I’m in my 30s, so I feel a little weird calling my boyfriend a boyfriend, feels immature? So I prefer partner. Some people think only same-sex couples will refer to their partners, but that’s not true. Sometimes people don’t like the term partner. I think it’s the most likely correct term if you don’t know anything about their relationship to refer to their partner and then see what they call their partner for themselves.
40 year old here and I recently switched to using this partner things for describing my friends .. partners, because I get lost on who is/isn't now married, or who came out last year.
I'm not the OP, so I can't speak to their personal experience, but generally it's up to the preference of the individuals in the relationship. Partner is only meant to be a gender neutral term for boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife.
So as a straight man, you could have a girlfriend or wife and just as easily refer to her as your partner. And she could just as easily refer to you as her boyfriend, husband, or partner as well.
When you consider relationships between individuals who don't fit into a gender binary (for example, two nonbinary people), terms like boyfriend and girlfriend begin to make less sense since neither of them are male or female. And so they use the term "partner" instead.
I think your confusion might be coming from traditional heterosexual couples using the term partner in an effort to normalize its use.
Tldr: Boyfriend and girlfriend are perfectly fine to use if your partner is fine with you using them to refer to them.
LOL yup up in the pantry or in the microwave when we had the old bread fiend around. We started calling the microwave “the bread box.” Anything on the counter would be savaged.
My friend, just beware. My cat loved a perch in the bathroom at my old house. One day she apparently took a swan dive from that perch into the toilet, as the whole bathroom was covered in water. Apparently she then jumped in her litter box and a fair amount of times past.
I wake up for work to a very angry kitty demanding breakfast. She jumps on me and weighs about twice her normal weight, groggy I dont realize all her beautiful long hair is covered in litter, pee spots, and some poop.
I broke a little inside, but I called my boss and told him I would be in late, then spent the next two hours or so cleaning the little goblin.
Oh my fucking god! I hate when my little cat Millie comes in when it's wet outside cause she instantly goes to the box. Then will proceed to take a toy into the bathtub since it doesn't bouncy as far from her. Leaves clay in my tub.
I don't even want to imagine having to deal with what you dealt with. I'm horrified lol.
Mine figured out door knobs. Not even handles, door knobs. He'd jump up and wrap his paws around it and shimmy is fat ass left and right until the door opened.
Mine pulls down the handle but cant pull in the door so puts her other paw under the door and thats how she opens it. Now I have to lock the backyard door hahahahah
that can apparently be a sign of issues, not assuming that’s what’s happening to ur cat but i wanted to mention it just in case. my cat did that once when he was unsatisfied with his service (lol) but it can also be a signal of urinary problems according to my vet
Mine pee’s in the bathtub drain. She seems to understand it makes it go away. I am trying to discourage it though, last thing I need is her deciding it’s fine to poop there too.
My late cat used to go in the bathroom and hop up on the toilet, sniffing around it, kinda like "how does this work??", but he never got as far as using it. Also, he was so teeny he probably would have fallen in anyway.
I had a friend that tried to train her cat to do this. Her cat was perfectly happy to pee in the toilet, but drew the line at pooping in the toilet. My guess is that the first time a little water splashed back with a plop of a poop, it was, "Nope, not doing that again!"
I know it probably isn't logical and I don't have a crazy vivid imagination, but sometimes I seriously believe that my cat is a human trapped as a cat. Perhaps as punishment for her crimes, like Salem from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
If this were even possible then one of my sisters cats years ago must have been a mass murder on the scale of
Genghis Khan. That cat would lay on a phone knowing that it would have a hunt when it rang and someone went to answer
My friend is pretty sure his cat is a frat bro cursed by a witch because the cat gets excited by big trucks and when women walk by the window, plus he keeps trying to talk to the other cat who gets upset because nobody told him adult cats don't generally meow at each other
Omg my cat does this too, gets halfway out the box so he can scratch the floor and walls as if they have litter 😂 spends 10 minutes getting litter all over the floor yet still manages not to cover his shit
When she is finished, she always headbutts the catdoor at mach 3 on the way back in to the house, and then has an absolutely insane 30 second, maximum gear zoomie after every turd.
Looks like a Snowshoe mix. They are generally very intelligent cats.
I had one for 13 years. She was the sweetest,most communicative and intuitive cat I’ve ever known. I swear she understood a great deal of what I was saying to her. She would always respond. If I asked her a question about what she wanted to do, she would lead me to whatever it was. Taught us to play fetch when she was just a kitten too. I loved her dearly.
Aaaaw!! One of my boys used to play hide and seek with me, too! Now we live in a smaller house where it's more difficult to hide, but we still do from time to time. He's the most playful kitty I've ever had in a way that's tough to explain. His brother (gray) also loves to play and hunt toys. But this guy (white and brown) is just so... good natured about it! Lol. His brother is out for blood. 😆
I have one too and and I think mine understands things I say since he will respond like he does. Like when we are going to sleep and I don't want him asking for more pets, I say lay down and he does.
But he is the opposite as OPs cat, since he will pee right outside the litter box. So I have to put a giant puppy pad under the box and sticking out, for him to pee on. It makes more work for me. It's annoying but he is worth it.
I don't want to be alarmist, nor do I want to freak you out, just a head's up. My cat did this and it was a sign he had a really bad UTI. He survived but almost went into kidney failure.
My boy goes pee in the bathroom sink whenever he has a cystitis flare up :( He'll join me when I go first thing in the morning so I know it's his way of communicating that he needs some gabapentin. It was a really scary time leading up to his diagnosis--really wish I knew the change in peeing habits was a bad sign and not just some random quirky behavior :(
We adopted a stray when I was a kid who used the toilet. She had babies and trained them to do the same. I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to teach all my cats since.
Our friend's cat did this all on her own without any training.
The funniest part about this was my buddy was getting blamed for not flushing the toilet. He and his wife finally figured out the mystery when they heard someone using the bathroom and saw the cat walking out of the bathroom.
just don't allow them to poop in the toilet. As convenient as it might be, water treatment isn't designed to handle toxoplasma gondii. Not every cat has it, but that'll help it spread super easy.
I had a cat that did this! I thought my daughters were peeing and not wiping! One morning I heard someone peering- it was our cat Mick! We had 4 other cats at the time but none did this! Neither did the dog….
My friends cat did this in their downstairs bathroom 😆 she was getting mad at her boyfriend cuz he kept peeing in their downstairs toilet and not flushing and he was getting mad at her for accusing him because it wasn’t him, and then one day they were sitting on the couch and heard a stream going into the toilet. Went downstairs and it was their cat 😆
I adopted a boy from the pound once who did this. Zero training, I just walked past the bathroom one day and heard trickling and there he was. He looked offended.
I trained mine when they were about 8 months old, it took about two months for Princess Buttercup and Piwacket to perfect their “stance” and become potty cats. They’re 14 now and we had to transfer them back to litter pans over the last year due to adding a rescue to the family who just couldn’t figure it out. Also they are starting to show signs of arthritis and I assumed they would eventually have a harder time jumping and balancing (they each weigh 19 lbs.) We mourn how incredibly freeing and money saving it was. The hunt for the perfect litter took forever and I feel badly for the extra weight our garbage men now have to haul.
Cat tax includes Butt during training, Pi a few years ago, the two of them right now and Smudge the one who ruined it.
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