May 11, 2005

• when i go there i get this message: Welcome to your website! This page is just a placeholder. To publish your site, place your HTML and image files in the following directory: /Library/WebServer/Documents/ Be sure to name your main page "index.html" and it will become the default page for visitors.
• oops. it's not my webpage. there's a typo. Since I cannot edit the original post, I will try re-typing here. Popgadget
• Jazz legend Charles Mingus did it first. Toilet train his cat, of course, not go to the toilet. Although I'm sure he did that, too.
• To play the game, simply slide it between any two fingers and relax. sMhyla! you naughty little poster you! heh.
• I'm wondering what'll happen the first time you take the ring away and they stick their back feet in there to cover the non-existent hole they haven't dug.
• Heh, I had a friend in days-gone-by that trained her cat to do just this. Problem was, kitty etiquette just doesn't translate well with respect to humans - i.e., her toilet seat was quite nasty!!
• First toilets, next, THE WORLD!
• now that's a username.
• sorry but did the cat in the picture look just the slightest bit constipated to anyone else?
• how can you people be thinking about constipated cats when this thing is on there?? huh huhhhh??? the mesh-like textile material contains sensors but is soft to the touch oooooooooo. and it's pink!
• From Charles' page: Don't be surprised if you hear the toilet flush in the middle of the night. A cat can learn how to do it, spurred on by his instinct to cover up. His main thing is to cover up. If he hits the flush knob accidentally and sees that it cleans the bowl inside, he may remember and do it intentionally. Cool!!!
• A friend of mine successfully trained her kitty to use the toilet. He was really good at it -- no mess on the seat, though he didn't flush. One day, though, he fell in. He never went near the toilet again.
• Oh -- and I had my kitty trained to go outside like a dog. He'd paw the door and I'd let him out, he'd paw it again, and I'd let him in. No fuss, no muss -- though you do have to be really vigilant about keeping their shots and worm medication up to date.
• bahahahahaha! ahahahahahah! heeee! * wipes tears *
• My great-aunt had a cat that used the toilet 15 or 20 years ago. They used to train cats to use the toilet with a litter tray that sat inside the seat; I remember because my mother wanted to train out cats at one time. I don't remember whether Blackie knew how to flush or not, though.
• I thought I had posted on this before, but I guess it was just a comment. Anyway, the most well known page on how to train a cat to use the toilet is still up and a good resource to do it without buying a gadget.
• Years ago, one of my cats trained himself to use the toilet. We called him "the philospher" because he liked to figure out how things worked. He'd barge into the bathroom when I was using the toilet, then peer into the bowl when I had stood up and flushed. After that had gone on for a while, one day I found him straddling the toilet seat while peeing. He went a step further, though - apparently didn't think the toilet was sized for a cat, so he started peeing in the bathtub drain. Never flushed or wiped, though.
• Ok, so potty-training a cat is not a novel idea, but an entertaining thread of comments did unravel. I just understood SideDish's first comment AFTER the hint from the second comment. Clarification: Popgadget is a blog that I read, not write. SideDish, I think you're naughty one here!!
• Why do humans always think that their own way is so much better? My cat trained me on his litter box a few years ago, and I am never going back.
• But. bernockle, I do hope you don't scoop the sand out onto the carpet when you're done.
• bernockle probably doesn't even cover the tootsie rolls--dang, I hate it when my cat does that we have a cat door* and only have to have a litter box in the deepest darkest days of winter in theory, these dang cats are supposed to be mousers and barn cats-but somehow they've moved into the washroom in the house could it be my fault? that's where I told Mr. B to put the cat door live in the country, have only lost one brain-damaged cat to coyotes in nearly 30 years
• I hear you can teach them to flush, too, but you shouldn't -- they think it's fun and will flush over and over... My kitty has a LitterMaid. Works well, although I line the plastic poo recepticle with a plastic grocery bag to avoid having to buy more plastic poo recepticles.
• i once had a cat that barged in while i was peeing. he at once became very exicted about the stream of liquid exiting from me and finding its way to the swishing water in the toilet. he jumped up to attack the stream of warm pee and came down with a plump right into the middle of the bowl. panicking, he tried to jump up and run out of the bathroom. not wanting this to happen, i was forced to continue my stream with one hand and grab him with the other. in the process, there was now pee all over him, the rim, the floor, and me. After washing him up good, i took off my pee stained clothes and hung them to dry on the aging patio furniture out front. while i was in the shower, my roommate came home with his strip-club bartender date. they sat down outside to have a smoke. she leaned back on her chair and quickly leaned back forward after the chill of my pee edged onto the flesh of her back. they just assummed it was water. guess they were too drunk or were smoking too much to notice the smell. and thats how my pee got on on the back of a strip-club bartender on her first date with my ex-roommate.
• *applause*
• I just usually stand on the bar and pee on them from there.
• of course you do
• Toilet training for cats
• I think I think this: there is something basically disrespectful about taking pictures of cats using toilets.