Leash and Toilet Training a Cat/Kitten? | Cat Training

I will be a first time kitten owner in about a month and am using this time to read lots of books about owning a kitten. One of the things I have come across a lot is leash training and toilet training. I have never seen cats do either of these before, and wanted to know if any of you have personally trained your cats to do these things or have seen it in action. Does it really work? Is it good for the cat? Can you start this training as a kitten? What are the best training methods you have used? I would love to get any first hand experiences and opinions on these possible kitten training methods. Your considerate thoughts are appreciated.

Thank You.

Leash training a new kitten is absurdly easy … put a HARNESS on your cat (not a collar, it will only ‘strangle the cat’ and make it fear the leash) and hook a leash to it … then play with the cat and leash … first let the cat play with the leash (they love ‘strings’ to play with), then try ‘tugging’ on the leash while calling the cat to you. After the cat is used to that, it’s easy to just ‘walk around’ talking to the cat, who will naturally follow you … especially if it knows it will get a ‘treat’ for doing that. After that is done in the house, you may take your kitten outside … but the cat WON’T ‘walk with you’ on the leash very much. The leash is more for the ‘protection of the cat’ and you’ll have to ‘carry the cat’ most places, and set it down to explore when it’s SAFE … but I have had cats that were leash trained to ‘walk’ everywhere, and also cats that just ‘followed close behind me’ with no leash at all … even cats who INSISTED on following me unless I locked them in the house!
I assume that ‘toilet training’ means training your kitty to use the ‘human toilet’ … and that is ‘easy’ for the cat, but may be ‘difficult’ for you if you don’t have a toilet that you don’t ‘use regularly’ in your place. It’s also somewhat expensive, since to get the cat to use the toilet you must first get it used to using a ‘sandbox’ that fits on the toilet seat … then ‘expanding the hole to the water’ until the cat learns to ‘straddle’ the seat and ‘do it’s thing’ … you can ‘do it’ but it will take about a year before your cat can just use the ‘human seat’ without anything to make it look and smell like a cat box … and you’ll have to ‘clean’ the cat box daily and move it if that is the same toilet you want to use. And some cats just NEVER want to use a toilet because there is too much ‘exposure’ … cats don’t like to ‘do their duties’ where they can be ‘seen and heard’ … so use ‘good sense’ in deciding whether or not it is ‘valuable enough a thing’ to you to ‘toilet train’ your cat, or to just use a litter box that you clean daily.

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