random thought - about dogs/cats

Whats the best way to train your dog/cat NOT to shit inside the house?

Let them have regular access to go outside and lock them out for a little while until they get used to shitting outside. Works with cats. Dogs, I don't know.

You can actually house train a cat to do its business indoors because they have this instinct to need to cover up their messes, just have a sandbox or something of the sort easily accessible to them so they can do their thing there. But what I really want to learn is to teach them to do it on the toilet & flush, that's probably the coolest & hardest thing you can teach them.

Replying to #3

Have you watched BRUCE almighty?..The dog was reading newspaper while doing his business..man when you see shit on your floor your gonna wish you have godly powers.

That's just part of the responsibilities you have as a pet owner :D

For a doh you can get a toilet mat, get them to wee on it and they will usually go in that same spot. When they got a little bit older put the mat on the garden and a week (perhaps?) later when they go for their business remove the mat, they will either do their business without the mat straight away or you will have to do it gradually.
Works with most dogs :)

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Then have walkies twice a day :P

It's easy to train cats to go to the litter box. I think it's instinctive for them, so just manually place the cat in the sand box and move her paws around in the sand. My cat got it pretty quick.I heard it's hard to train dogs to hold until you let them outside or walk them?

Well when -FIREFOX-NOT-RESPONDING- you have a Cat you think your side is easier and when you have the dog you think that your side is easier; so unless you have had both and it had no bias to it or outliers you won't be able to say which is easier

There is a mat thing that you can attach within your toilet, so it sits on the rim of the toilet and the cat uses it's nose (( sort of like the instict for the litter box )) and goes above the toilet. So you gradually remove this extra feature and the cat will go automatically to the toilet to do it's business.. Training it to flush, well that's another matter x)you can also follow the instructions within this link~http://www.petsdo.com/blog/how-toilet-train-your-catGoodluck with the training!! :D

Replying to #11

Nice link but i have a dog, and my folks took him[only a native dog] coz he filled the house with his smell.

tortiekittin · #11There is a mat thing that you can attach within your toilet, so it sits on the rim of the toilet and the cat uses it's nose (( sort of like the instict for the litter box )) and goes above the toilet.

That's so cool! I didn't know they had such things. But what if the cat slips one day?I think getting a cat genie (or something like that) suffices as a toilet, no more scooping litter boxes.