The Litter Kwitter® is a unique Australian design that uses an understanding of cat psychology to train your cat to use the toilet. The training system and product design has been developed and tested with input from cat owners, vets and animal behaviourists.
Originally conceived by Australian Jo Lapidge, when she took home a blue Burmese kitten (Doogie) and quickly realised that litter changing was not for her: “After the first week of Doogie soiling the litter tray and me cleaning up after him I was experiencing feelings of regret, not about Doogie, but about his litter tray,” Jo says.
“I went to see ‘Meet the Fockers’, which features Mr Jinx, a toilet-trained cat. This was the light-bulb moment when I thought I could train Doogie to do the same.”
Jo started building a device to teach Doogie to adapt to using the household toilet so she could avoid messy litter duty – the number one problem for owners of indoor cats.
Now British cats and their owners can also enjoy the benefits of a Litter free household thanks to PetPlanet.co.uk.
“We’re delighted to add Litter Kwitter to our range of products - we’re always looking for new and interesting items to help pets and their owners”, says PetPlanet Director Kevin Hague, “all we need now is a way of training cats to put the lid down and flush!”
Litter Kwitter is available from Petplanet.co.uk with full instructions on how to train your cat or kitten to use the system at a cost of £39.99
The system comes complete with white base plate (which fits all standard toilets) and 3 colour coded training discs, as well as a 30-minute instructional DVD and information booklet.
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PR 001/ 2nd October 2006
NOTES TO EDITORS:-
PetPlanet.co.uk
Petplanet.co.uk is the UK’s leading online pet supplies retailer with over 300,000 registered members. The website www.petplanet.co.uk receives in excess of 600,000 unique visitors every month.
Petplanet.co.uk is part of the M8 Group, an independent company based in Livingston, Scotland.
Litter Kwitter®
The Litter Kwitter® was developed and tested with input from cat owners, vets and animal behaviourists – in particular Dr Joanne Righetti. Dr Righetti is one of Australia’s leading animal behaviourists.
The Litter Kwitter® starts next to the toilet with the white base plate and a red plastic disc full of litter so your cat knows what it is and where to go to use it. Then you put it on the porcelain rim of the toilet, so your cat learns to hop up. Once your cat gets the idea that the toilet is where the litter is, you can move to the amber disc. It has a hole in the middle and room for some litter around the edges so that your cat can use it but also starts to learn how to perch on the edge of the seat itself. It’s then time to use the green disc - it has a bigger hole so that your cat can balance on the seat and go, knowing that everything will end up in the toilet. And that’s it: No more mess – no more germs – no more smells – no more hassle.
