Why the heck would anyone want to toilet train a cat?
Good question, certainly worth answering first. Someone would want to toilet train a cat because: • It’s more sanitary for cats as well as for the humans sharing the toilet (see below). • It’s many times less time consuming to flush the toilet once in a while than it is to maintain the litter every 1-2 days and clean the litter box every couple months. • It’s less expensive to flush the toilet once in a while than it is to buy litter every 1-2 months (and plastic litter box liners for those who buy them). Assuming you use 7 pounds of litter per week and that litter is $1 per pound, you will save $365/year in litter alone. • It’s better for the environment for cat waste to be filtered out of sewage at water treatment plants than it is for cat litter clumps to fill up our dumps. It’s estimated (by me) that used cat litter accounts for approximately 1.5 jillion tons of new waste in U.S. dumps each year. More sanitary? Wouldn’t it be less sanitary to share a toilet with a cat? That’s what
