Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:41:13 -0400 (EDT)

From: (e-mail address removed)

Subject: kitty potty training.

To: CT



i just read your site and first of all, that ridiculous, stupid plastic form

thing from the pet store to toilet train your cat is called Kitty Whiz.  i

just purchased one last friday and have been desperately trying to toilet

train Gio, my 5 1/2 month old abyssinian male.  basically, i totally agree

with you -it sucks. it bends, it rips, i too had to cut it to have it fit my

toilet, litter is all over, and right now my bathroom is DISGUSTING!! i'm so

frustrated right now.     basically, i could deal with cleaning the litter

box (of course i don't LOVE it) but the problem is that i live in a small

studio apt, and the litter box goes in this little hall btwn my closet and

bathroom, and in short, Gio began tracking litter EVERYWHERE, (thru no fault

of his own) and it began sticking to the floor, he was getting litter in my

bed, etc, etc. GROSS stuff!

so i decided to potty train him with this stupid kitty whiz crap. first,

putting it on the toilet and filling it with litter was no problem at all.

the instructions said to lock the cat overnight to get him to go but with

Gio, he went within 1 hr from me coming home from the pet store with it.

anyway, he was so fine with it and with no problems at all, that i cut the

white part out the next day--still no problems.

anyway, to make a long story short-yesterday i cut out the first circle. and

i don't think gio has gone since. i feel terrible. i tried to help him and he

just gets interested in watching the litter fall into the water (b/c when he

steps on the stupid plastic, all the litter falls in) and dips his paw in.  i

think when he sees that clump of litter that has fallen in, he thinks that's

where he needs to go.  he sticks his head in (the hole, but not the water)

and paws around. then he jumps to the floor and circles the base of the

toilet looking   for that litter, looking for where that hole leads to. i

think he's really gotta go and i feel so bad. but i'm just trying to hold out

and not take that litter box out.  i like your cardboard idea, and i will try

it, but first i have  a few ideas of my own.  (involves aluminum foil)

exciting stuff! =P

anyway, i didn't mean for this letter to be so long.  but i really liked ur

story and i'm hoping that this will all end well.



-dawn