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You can always teach your cat to poop in a toilet. This doesn't take much effort to teach them. Remember to leave the toilet seat cover up for them.

by IncRnd 6y ago

r00fus 6y ago
Please don't do this [1]. Also washing your cats regularly is inadvisable as well unless they have some medical issue (obesity, etc). In short, they're not humans, if you treat them like one you may get unwanted results. [1] https://www.thedodo.com/should-cat-use-toilet-2079157362.html https://www.thedodo.com/should-cat-use-toilet-2079157362.htm...
- IncRnd 6y ago
  Why not? Because an Internet article said it might, possibly be a bad idea? I never said cats were human. I don't wash my cat. We don't shower together. What makes you think I wrote any of that? None of the items listed in that article have happened in my experience to an actual real-world cat that I have seen. The article is full of suppositions. There are no actual facts listed. The first thing that I noticed in that article were all the pictures of toilet paper that cats had ripped off of the toilet roll. All one has to do is turn the roll in the other direction, and cats no longer do that. But, the writer seemed less interested in information than in filling words for a story.
  - coryrc 6y ago
    Cat parasites are not removed by sewage systems and hurt fish. Do not flush. https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/08/19/flush-cat-poop-dont-do-it/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/08/19/flush-cat-poop-dont-d... https://www.kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/dnrp/solid-waste/ecoconsumer/documents/SeattleTimes_2015-04-04.ashx?la=en https://www.kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/dnrp/solid-waste/ec... http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-and-disposal/where-does-it-go#/item/cat-poop http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-an... https://keepingitpawsome.com/never-flush-cat-poop/ https://keepingitpawsome.com/never-flush-cat-poop/
    - IncRnd 6y ago
      Those are links to Dear Joan columns and the Seattle PU that don't apply to my septic system that is large enough and capable of handling this. Water from my toilets goes through a home recycling system. Pregnant women who drink water at my house are not susceptible to toxoplasmosis. People didn't invent cats, who have been self-burying their feces for a long time. Seattle and the municipalities in your links may not be configured to handle cats, but people have known how to compost cat feces for a long time without withering the vegetables and poisoning pregnant women.
      - lovehashbrowns 6y ago
        I'll add an additional link as context: Transmission of Toxoplasma: Clues from the study of sea otters as sentinels of Toxoplasma gondii flow into the marine environment. https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/assets/pdfs/vetsci-stranding/scientific-contributions/2005/conrad-2005.pdf https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/assets/pdfs/vetsci-strand... [PDF] I did not know this as a potential risk of flushing cat feces in the toilet. But it also seems that cats defecating outside is likely a more significant contributor to Toxoplasmosis in wildlife.

You can always teach your cat to poop in a toilet. This doesn't take much effort to teach them. Remember to leave the toilet seat cover up for them.

by IncRnd 6y ago

You can always teach your cat to poop in a toilet. This doesn't take much effort to teach them. Remember to leave the toilet seat cover up for them.

r00fus 6y ago

Please don't do this [1]. Also washing your cats regularly is inadvisable as well unless they have some medical issue (obesity, etc). In short, they're not humans, if you treat them like one you may get unwanted results. [1] https://www.thedodo.com/should-cat-use-toilet-2079157362.html https://www.thedodo.com/should-cat-use-toilet-2079157362.htm...

IncRnd 6y ago
Why not? Because an Internet article said it might, possibly be a bad idea? I never said cats were human. I don't wash my cat. We don't shower together. What makes you think I wrote any of that? None of the items listed in that article have happened in my experience to an actual real-world cat that I have seen. The article is full of suppositions. There are no actual facts listed. The first thing that I noticed in that article were all the pictures of toilet paper that cats had ripped off of the toilet roll. All one has to do is turn the roll in the other direction, and cats no longer do that. But, the writer seemed less interested in information than in filling words for a story.
- coryrc 6y ago
  Cat parasites are not removed by sewage systems and hurt fish. Do not flush. https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/08/19/flush-cat-poop-dont-do-it/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/08/19/flush-cat-poop-dont-d... https://www.kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/dnrp/solid-waste/ecoconsumer/documents/SeattleTimes_2015-04-04.ashx?la=en https://www.kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/dnrp/solid-waste/ec... http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-and-disposal/where-does-it-go#/item/cat-poop http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/collection-an... https://keepingitpawsome.com/never-flush-cat-poop/ https://keepingitpawsome.com/never-flush-cat-poop/
  - IncRnd 6y ago
    Those are links to Dear Joan columns and the Seattle PU that don't apply to my septic system that is large enough and capable of handling this. Water from my toilets goes through a home recycling system. Pregnant women who drink water at my house are not susceptible to toxoplasmosis. People didn't invent cats, who have been self-burying their feces for a long time. Seattle and the municipalities in your links may not be configured to handle cats, but people have known how to compost cat feces for a long time without withering the vegetables and poisoning pregnant women.
    - lovehashbrowns 6y ago
      I'll add an additional link as context: Transmission of Toxoplasma: Clues from the study of sea otters as sentinels of Toxoplasma gondii flow into the marine environment. https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/assets/pdfs/vetsci-stranding/scientific-contributions/2005/conrad-2005.pdf https://www.marinemammalcenter.org/assets/pdfs/vetsci-strand... [PDF] I did not know this as a potential risk of flushing cat feces in the toilet. But it also seems that cats defecating outside is likely a more significant contributor to Toxoplasmosis in wildlife.