Meet my cat Kiku, the “poster kitty” for Toilet Train Cat Blog. Kiku, short for Kikuchiyo, of “The Seven Samurai” fame, used the litter box for about the first 4 months of his life. After that, he graduated to using the toilet. Yes, the same kind of toilet that you and I use!

First, I’ll give you a little background info on Kiku. (If you’re not interested in hearing about Kiku’s pre-toilet trained kittenhood, go directly to Day 30 where I’ve mapped out the step-by-step process I used to train him to use the toilet…)
Day 1: (Making Kiku’s acquaintance)

Ok, so now forget about the litter box AND forget about going through the process of toilet training your cat. Check out this video of the CatGenie cat toilet.
It’s amazing!

You hook it up to a water input and your sewer system and your cat has his own real toilet. And guess what! You don’t have to do a thing!  The cat does his business and you push a button.  That’s it.  The CatGenie then scoops the waste out and eliminates it, flushes the bowl with the special …

A couple weeks ago, I posted a video of Maru, the box-diving dare devil kitty. He’s a fearless, cute Scottish Fold who lives in Japan and spends his days diving into tunnels and boxes, thus providing us with hours of entertainment on YouTube.
Check out his blog (it’s in Japanese) and his other videos on YouTube. The video above has clips of all of his best tricks.

More from Maru, the playful Japanese kitty. This time, Maru entertains us with his cool tunnel toy.

Had to include this one…
Check it out.  It’s so funny.  Contains videos of cats doing incredible flips, running on their front legs, doing the “Curly Shuffle”, and all kinds of other zany stuff.  About half-way through it gets a little slow for just a moment.  Keep watching though, ’cause it picks up again.
Enjoy!

Well once again, here’s a cute video that has nothing to do with toilet training. But it’s so funny, I had to add it.  It’s of a cat named Maru, whose hobby is diving into empty boxes at full speed.

Allie from Alliesanswers.com has a great idea here for saving money on kitty litter! She makes her own! Yep, some shredded newspaper, detergent, and a little bit of patience and you just saved yourself a little bit of cash. …And right now aren’t we all looking for ways to save a little bit of cash?
Here’s the step-by-step method she developed.
So after a week or so of brainstorming, I came up with this recipe for homemade kitty litter.

Shred newspaper in a paper shredder. I collect the shredded …

This video does a nice job of showing us the very beginner stages of toilet training your cat. In this case, they’re using Litter Kwitter products. (You can tell by the colored inserts they place in the toilet bowl.) The kitten looks to be about 4 or 5 months old.

Great soundtrack, too!

Here’s a video of a news report by KNBC news about the $22,000 Ashera cat.  Included in the video are clips of Simon Brodie, the developer of the hybrid cat.

If you’re a cat lover and haven’t heard about the designer Ashera (sometimes misspelled “Ashira”) cat with the minimum price tag of $22,000, then you must be living under a rock! The UK’s Mail Online reported on the luxury cat, as did the Pet News Examiner and msnbc.com, informing readers of the facts as they found them:

Bred by a company called Life Style Pets in California
Bred from the African serval and Asian leopard cat, crossed with an undisclosed domestic breed