If the kitten was born at home, then the owners are not concerned with the question of how to teach cats to go to the pot. The fact is that if a cat is accustomed to the toilet, then she will teach her to go there and her kittens, which in all imitate them.
It's another matter if your family is replenished with a baby cat. It should be taken into account that when the situation changes, the orientation in space is lost. Crumbs for a while worry about the fact that there is no next to my mother. Therefore, for them to learn to walk on a pot is an insurmountable obstacle and it is important to properly accustom it to it.
Before you begin to accustom the cat to go to the pot, you need to remember his behavior in nature, because they have no conditioned reflexes yet, and instincts are in the first place. Remember the children's: "It's good to be a cat, it's good to be a dog! Dug a hole with a paw, put a poo and do not need to wipe the popochka with a piece of paper "? As for the toilet, the cats have the instinct to dig a hole. Even accustomed cats, who already go to the pot alone without any means, still scratch the floor in the toilet, as if digging in their small (or large) business.
First, you can play with the cat with his own instinct: put a little sand on the bottom of the pot. The earth is better not to pour - it will get wet and stain the pet's paw, although you can throw a pinch (as an alternative - blue clay) - they like this smell, they feel the spirit of nature in it. (Kotov attracts the smell of the earth, so be on call if you grow flowers, and if you keep vegetables at home). With time, you can reduce the dose of sand and in the end it will not need a cat at all.
At the initial stage, a dry mix is not always suitable for powdering a pot, which is sold in the store. It is designed to mask the smell, so for a cat it can be an incomprehensible element and do not act like sand. As for sawdust, sharp particles can damage the soft pads of the feet. When the cat learns to go to the right place, you can use the silica gel filler. Although it is more expensive than others, it does not form small particles that can stretch beyond the paws, and it will not have to be changed frequently - just a few times a week. There are craftsmen who managed to teach the cat to go to the toilet. But you should know that this option is not very hygienic first of all for a person.
Do not scold the kitten, poke your face in the puddle - it will not understand you the way you would. On the contrary - accustoming will become more difficult: most likely, it will simply make the cat scared of your gestures, shouting, and knowing that cats are vindictive, you will not get away with it. Have patience, as with a small baby. It may take several weeks before he learns to behave correctly. Instead of censures, take a small amount of his urine on a rag and put it in a pot. Cats find their place by smell. Therefore, the place where he went on a "slip", you need to wash, clean, so that he did not hear and did not return to it. In this regard, there are recommendations in place of sand poured into the tray pieces of newspaper: the newspaper absorbs a cat's smell, and the cat again returns to its proper place.
If you see that the cat has taken the appropriate pose or began to make a conditional dig, you must immediately transfer it to the pot. If it was possible to crank out the operation, give him something delicious for a reward. But in case he has already managed to do it, it's still to be attributed, to show where necessary, but not to scold, but on the contrary to pat and tell. Otherwise, he will have associations: a toilet is a place where he is scolded, and he will not want to go on his own.
One of the "recipes", how to accustom to the pot of the pet, move his pot from the place of "crime" to the right literally by centimeter. Animal must follow you. This, of course, is tedious, but clear and understandable.
In the future, if you do not want to fill the pot with filler and at the same time you will not have time to clean it often, and the smell will start to irritate, then remember: vinegar removes odors perfectly. Just a couple of tablespoons of ordinary vinegar in a washed pot will help you forget about this problem. But still once a day to release him from the liquid still have to. Vinegar can and wipe that surface, which suffered from kotyachih "misses."
It is important to remember that even a cat accustomed to a pot can do dirty work in the wrong place. This does not mean that he forgot where to go, the cats thus express their protest, resentment. Also, the cat does not go to the pot if it does not stand in a convenient place (it's better to put it in a darkened corner), or it smells bad, and also if it is rarely cleaned. There are cats with a character - they do not go twice to one, but there are also such that, no matter how hard you try, but by and large will only walk next to the tray.