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How to properly train a kitten to use a litter box: what you need to remember
01.03.2024 19:10
No kitten will immediately go to the toilet in the right place, that is, in the litter box.
He needs to be trained to do this, which will take quite a lot of time and effort. It will be especially difficult with an already grown kitten, taken from hands or picked up from the street.
Rules for training your pet to use a litter box
The first thing to do is to limit the space in which the kitten can move freely to one room. A cat toilet should be placed in this room. The kitten should not play, rest or sleep near the tray.
It is worth removing all carpeting from the selected room, leaving only a special mat for the tray.
To show your pet where exactly it should go to the toilet, you should monitor the periods of its defecation and urination. If the kitten scratches the floor and spins, then you should immediately take it to the tray and make sure that the process takes place in the right place.
With all this, observations should be carried out from a distance, so as not to interfere with the pet's adaptation to a new place. Such actions should be repeated until the kitten begins to go to the tray on its own. To reinforce correct behavior, you can treat your pet with a treat.
It is important to remember that the results will not appear quickly. It will take about 6 months to fully train the animal to use the litter box. Primary skills will be mastered in 14 days.
At this time, you cannot scold or punish your pet, otherwise it may develop false associations between the owner’s screams and his going to the toilet.
If there are several pets in the house, each of them will need a separate place for the toilet. Ideally, there should be one more litter box in the apartment than there are cats.
Error correction rules
Mistakes made by a kitten must be corrected in a special way and without scolding.
When your pet has relieved itself in the wrong place, you should wipe the area with a napkin and put it in the cat litter box. Next time, your pet will follow the smell and go to the litter box itself.
In the case when a kitten constantly goes to the toilet in the same place, you can use a special product that will drive away the pet. You can also place a bowl of food in this place, because cats try to keep the place where they eat clean.
Sometimes a pet may have an aversion to a certain tray or filler. In this situation, it is worth replacing the unpleasant item with another.
Rules for cleaning and caring for the tray
Regular cleaning of the tray is necessary because cats really don't like dirt. Also, thanks to this, unpleasant odors will not appear in the apartment.
A scoop will help in collecting solid waste and dirty filler, which should also be replaced with a new one in a timely manner.
The tray should be washed daily using mild detergents.
Training a kitten to use a litter box is a very labor-intensive task. It will take a lot of time for the pet to fully master the necessary skill. Knowing the basic rules that should be followed, you can reduce this time.
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