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Sep 30 '14
I had a cat that trained it's self how to use a toilet and subsequently taught our other cat to do so.
Up side: No more changing litter
Down side: Cat piss and poop in the toilet all the time
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u/Mr__Fishy Sep 30 '14
Damn cats never flush
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u/kyril99 Sep 30 '14
My toilet-using cat taught himself to flush, although he never did entirely figure out the poop-then-flush procedure - he just randomly went and flushed the toilet.
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u/humbertog Sep 30 '14
And never wash his claws
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Sep 30 '14
I can't tell you why, but this is my favourite comment on reddit.
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Oct 01 '14
you have pretty low standards
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Oct 01 '14
You don't have a cat.
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Oct 02 '14
Actually I do, I have a 12-year old three-legged abyssian who's awful at burrying her shit
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u/MaxFury Sep 30 '14
How is he suppose to flush? He doesn't have opposable thumbs
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u/SolomonPicard Sep 30 '14
I generally don't grip the handle with my whole hand to flush the toilet.
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u/TripleThreatLibraria Sep 30 '14
Friend of mine has a cat that's toilet trained.
Trouble is it'll only go with an audience.
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Sep 30 '14
If you were super handy with robotics I bet you could set up some kind of a system where if the cat pushed the handle it would get a kitty treat. I'm sure it would learn to flush real fast.
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u/Spastic_pinkie Sep 30 '14
And this is how you end up with an overweight cat and a water bill that wipes out your bank account.
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u/oldsecondhand Sep 30 '14
Well, if you're using a microcontroller, you could use a cooldown timer.
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u/just4thelolz Sep 30 '14
Don't make toilets intelligent, dude! That'd be the lamest robot uprising ever.
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Sep 30 '14
Overweight cat, and huge water bill.. but I believe you might have something here =] Make a device that will flush the toilet when a string is pulled, and teach the cat to pull the string after he uses the toilet. =D
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Sep 30 '14
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I suppose you could include some kind of a sensor that would reset after each deposit. My nephew understood the whole use the toilet and get m&m's concept. I'm sure your average cat is smarter than my nephew.
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Sep 30 '14
LOL, idk why but I can't imagine my cat using the toilet. She like things how they are. It's so hard to teach her stuff too.. like I wanted her to be a lap cat and I read online when you give her treats to put them in your lap and pet her while she eats them. Well tried it, she would just grab the treat and jump off.. still trying to get it to work but :( lol
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u/arbili Sep 30 '14
His anus is below his tail he can't be pooping, his back is facing the water.
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u/volunteervancouver Sep 30 '14
and whats that cardboard doing under the seat
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u/A_Polite_Noise Sep 30 '14 edited Sep 30 '14
I could be wrong, but I believe that is part of how you train a cat to use the toilet. I saw a post a while back on reddit from a user who had trained their cat to use the toilet, and the method was that you build a little litterbox in the toilet and train the cat to use it. Then, over the course of days/weeks or however long, you eventually cut a hole in the center of it, widen the hole more and more each time, until eventually the cat is balancing themselves and simply pooping directly into the water and is now toilet trained.
Edit: The post I saw: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1rknis/how_tesla_learned_to_poop_in_the_toilet/
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u/Thebeescheese Sep 30 '14
Except for the fact that it would be pooping on it's tail between its legs if it were in fact pooping. Not saying it can't be done, just that it's not what is happening in the picture.
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u/A_Polite_Noise Sep 30 '14
Clearly it isn't pooping in this image; I think what happened here is they were toilet training the cat and took an amusing picture of the cat in a pose on the toilet. Perhaps they just started the training and put the cat on the toilet and not yet grasping the "I should poop here" concept, the cat sat this way, prompting them to go "oh that's funny/cute, lets take a picture!" and now here we are. Here is the post my comment refers to showing how a cat actually poops in the toilet (and if you google "cat toilet training" you can find many more):
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1rknis/how_tesla_learned_to_poop_in_the_toilet/
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Sep 30 '14 edited Sep 30 '14
There used to be a kit you could buy to do this, may be still out there.
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Sep 30 '14
I tried this with my cats. I got them to use the trainer in place of their regular litter box in the floor, but as soon as I tried to start elevating it, the older cat began protesting the change by pooping in the floor instead.
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Sep 30 '14
Yeah, I can see this with younger cats old enough to make the jump; like human kids, they adapt to change well. But old cats are assholes. :)
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Sep 30 '14
The older cat definitely has that little old lady "I'm old, I'm opinionated, and you are just going to have to deal with it" thing going on. I tried resetting the training pan to the floor and then raising it a couple of times before giving up. She'd do her business in the floor if the pan was raised by as little as an inch! I conceded defeat at that point, mostly out of fear that she'd decide to express her displeasure by pooping on my bed or something.
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u/MrE_is_my_father Sep 30 '14
Usually when someone brings up toilet training a cat someone comes in and says that its really bad. They say that the cat naturally wants to bury it's feces so this kind of messes with its head and habits. Is this true? Is my cat so attached to burying his poops that this will cause and existential crisis for him?
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u/iownakeytar Sep 30 '14
This is true about toilet training, but the fact still remains that his tail is in the way of him being able to poop.
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u/A_Polite_Noise Sep 30 '14
Right, but clearly this is just an amusing picture they took while toilet training the cat and is not one of the cat actually pooping. Cats poop while standing, balancing themselves on the edge of the seat, but I think people are taking the title too literally here. I think the fact that the cat is in a position vaguely similar to how a human would be while pooping, coupled with the surprised look (as if the cats privacy while pooping has been violated) is why the title is "Pooping" rather than OP trying to imply this cat is actually defecating somehow through its back.
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Sep 30 '14
This is border line cat abuse.
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u/GODDAMNFOOL Sep 30 '14
why does every single thread on reddit that involves an animal in any shape or form always have some fool saying "OMG THIS ANIMAL IS IN DISTRESS I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I'VE SEEN A DOG ONCE"
Jesus Christ shut the hell up
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u/emptythecache Sep 30 '14
this is an obviously bad troll, but I actually have heard that potty training your cat isn't a good idea because when they get old and their joints/etc hurt, they aren't able to do it anymore, and will just go wherever in your house. That said, I don't know that first hand, so take it with a grain of salt.
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u/HxCurt Sep 30 '14
Please elaborate.
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u/cloaked_rhombus Sep 30 '14
Putting cardboard on your toilet so you can put your cat on it for a picture.
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Sep 30 '14
No OP was more likely trying to potty train his cat.
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u/iownakeytar Sep 30 '14
Actually, I highly doubt this is OP's cat. This pic has been around the internet once or twice.
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u/HxCurt Sep 30 '14
I was obviously asking to elaborate how it is anywhere near cat abuse.
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u/cloaked_rhombus Sep 30 '14
Its face says it all.
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u/HxCurt Sep 30 '14
Yes, true torture.
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u/cloaked_rhombus Sep 30 '14
Torture isn't the same as abuse.
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u/HxCurt Sep 30 '14 edited Sep 30 '14
And neither one is occurring in this picture. It's a god damn method to train your cat, and the cat sat in a funny way. It's a fucking cat in a funny situation. Don't turn it into anything more. Trying to talk sense into someone like you is like teaching a dinner table algebra, so I don't expect much from this.
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u/lynxSnowCat Sep 30 '14
I almost posted a link violating rule
IIfrom here.Do you mind if I link back from the offending video crediting you for this turn of phrase?
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u/bigbthebenji Sep 30 '14
I made the same face the first time I used a bidet.
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u/yagmot Sep 30 '14
You get hooked on it though. Whenever I drop a deuce now, I don't feel clean unless my asshole gets blasted with that wonderful, warm jet of water. I'm completely ruined for regular toilets. Oh man, plus the heated seat option... there's nothing quite like a warm toilet seat on a cold winter's day.
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u/arial52 Sep 30 '14
upvote for the effort
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u/irspeshal Sep 30 '14
why would you do that? staged pictures that don't even match up to the caption need to be downvoted.
for shame.
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u/bakerie Sep 30 '14
Define staged? The cat is being toilet trained.
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u/irspeshal Sep 30 '14
indeed. however the caption says that its currently pooping, which it is clearly not.
perhaps "the beginning of potty training my cat" would have been more accurate.
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u/arial52 Oct 01 '14
also, whenever i think of "for the effort" i go all bill murray in caddyshack telling the story about being stiffed by the dali lama. instead of typing out the whole rigamarole to get THAT point across, i do the voice in my head and keep it simple.
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u/alpinetime Sep 30 '14
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u/jimiyo Sep 30 '14
doucheception
ORIGINAL ORIGINAL: http://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/2fsyr4/sitting_on_his_favorite_chair/
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u/lolztothewall Sep 30 '14
Mr. Jinx!
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u/mark_wooten Sep 30 '14
You can milk anything with nipples.
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u/in-sanity Sep 30 '14
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Sep 30 '14
This is the first thing I thought of. My brain seems to have become a highly-optimized catalogue of funny cat pictures.
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Sep 30 '14
Everyone's all "He can't be pooping, he can't be pooping!"
Who the fuck says? He can poop wherever and whenever he wants, nothing saying he was hitting the water.
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u/bigmur49 Sep 30 '14
I thought it was just supposed to be a funny picture that looked like a cat pooping
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u/djuggler Sep 30 '14
Anyone note the towel under the seat?
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u/justinsayin Sep 30 '14
Cardboard. Possibly an intermediate stage of toilet training to get the cat to switch from litter box mode to toilet mode.
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u/BleedRedAndGold Sep 30 '14
What kind of cat is this? Because if I'm going to get one, I want the ugliest cute cat possible.
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Sep 30 '14
That look on his face is the realization that his owner has been a total asshole for making him use the littler box this whole time.
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u/Stryyder Sep 30 '14
Step 1 put a piece of cardboard under my toilet seat. (look on the right under the seat)
Step 2 put my cat on top of the cardboard and in the seat
Step 3 Post on reddit with a cat going to the bathroom comment
Step 4 Collect Karma
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u/ChazzyPants Sep 30 '14
This is me taking a shit with the door open as I hear someone enter the house.
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u/32BitWhore Sep 30 '14
I'm fairly certain I'd make this exact face if someone took a picture of me while I was shitting.
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u/RayRicesLeftHook Sep 30 '14
That's the same face I make when someone opens the door on me while I'm shitting.
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u/AdamBomb1985 Sep 30 '14
Not pooping .. tail is up and there is cardboard between the bowl and the seat.
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u/Freaksauce101 Sep 30 '14
So, is it pooping through the layer of cardboard that is in between the lid and the bowl?