Sunday, January 11, 2009

Day 11 Part 2 -- Kratos's first time pooping on the toilet!

Understandably, Kratos was confused about the missing litter box. He sees the new litter inside this mysterious bowl blocking access to his favorite water source, but he is unsure about how to use it. For many many times, he enters into the bathroom and examines the toilet at length:


As you can see, he even reached his paw in between the popcorn bowl and the toilet just to get to his water! But eventually, necessity got to the best of him, and -- yes, he pooped!!


There's good news and bad news about this. The good -- incredibly, amazingly good -- news, is that Kratos pooped with all four of his paws completely on the toilet, instead of standing in the popcorn bowl. According to this website, which is the primary source of toilet-training information that I've been consulting:
Watch your cat using the bathroom in the metal bowl. Count the number of feet he gets up on the toilet seat (as opposed to down in the bowl of litter). The higher the number, the luckier you are and the easier your job is going to be ...
And I am very lucky indeed :-)

The thing that gives me pause is how attached to the litter Kratos seems to be.  Witness, for example, how much Kratos played with the litter before being satisfied enough to poop into it.  I will probably really have to let Kratos poop like this for quite a while before he will get used to pooping into the toilet without any litter at all...

Anyways, major milestone, and well done Kratos once again!
Posted by Unknown at 9:25 PM

4 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 11, 2009 at 10:57 PM

    amazing job!

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  2. UnknownJanuary 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM

    Wow... congratulations, Chung!!! This has been an amazing journey so far, and I commend you on your perseverance!

    As a side note, I figured out why Kratos doesn't know how to bury his own poo! my labmate told me that if the kitten is taken away from the mommy too early on, then the kitty will not have learned from the mommy how to bury his own poo yet... YOU CRADLE ROBBERS!!! You stole kratos from his mother!!!

    Anyways. I hope that we will soon see Kratos pooping directly into the toilet, without you having to rescue him from the water =)

    Suggested next project (to start researching about): Teaching Kratos how to FLUSH. This one should be easy, no? ;)

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  3. UnknownJanuary 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM

    NOOOO we got him from the shelter!! If anything we saved him!! Plus he is about to become way more awesome than any ordinary litter-using cat.

    I was talking about training him how to flush with my roommate. He raised the valid point that it might be possible to train him to flush, but much harder to train him to flush ONLY after he uses the toilet...

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  4. UnknownJanuary 12, 2009 at 2:12 PM

    Kratos' everywhere-but-the-litter scratching behavior is well documented in the second video. I was laughing my head off.

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