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

The Ventura County Star recently ran an article, rating and reviewing various unique Christmas gifts. The first listed was the CatGenie Cat Toilet.
“On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a toilet called the Cat Genie.”
Just a quick check on google will inform you that the CatGenie is supposedly the world’s only self-washing, self-flushing cat box.  And apparently the newer version drains hairballs, too.  The article in the Ventura Star reports that It is said to be invented by a former rocket scientist.

There’s a TV show in Australia where inventors or wanna be inventors can show their products or ideas and get feedback. Now more than 200 episodes of the show have run. One of these episodes can rightfully claim partial credit for our wonderful toilet trained cats. Litter Kwitter was recently listed at number 1 in the Top 10 successful inventions from the show in an article from “The Advertiser.”

FOR the past 200 episodes of the New Inventors, a litany of ideas has been thrown up for debate and consideration. Here are the top 10 success stories:

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)