Before getting to itself a kitten or an adult cat, to know better how to look after them. And the first problem which you can face is a schooling of an animal to a toilet. And it is not important what age your pet. It is necessary to accustom to a tray at any age, especially you brought it to the house, new to it.
For a start get a tray in special pet-shop. They are to a grid and without it. Trellised trays are used more often without fillers while trays without grid and with high boards are intended for a toilet with filler. Usually cats like to rummage in sand after a toilet, digging in the traces. Filler can also be bought together with a tray in shop. They differ on quality and at the prices. Choose that to you on a pocket. Expensive fillers long hold a smell and well absorb moisture, it is necessary to change them in process of pollution, and the thicket needs to change cheaper. Remember that all fillers need to be thrown out in a garbage can, but not in a toilet bowl. With filler it will be easier for you to explain to a cat what from it it is required.
After you bring a cat home, he will choose to himself the secluded place somewhere under the bed or a case. Do not try to get it from there, so it gets acquainted with your apartment and the people and animals living in it. As there will pass the adaptation period, he will leave to you. Put a tray and food near its secluded place. Later you will move away them there where conveniently to you.
Acquaint your pet with his new toilet. For this purpose put a cat in a tray and scratch it a paw in filler. During the games and also after a dream and food you take away a cat to a tray, reminding him that it and is its toilet. If the kitten made the affairs in not put place, then accurately collect by a rag or the newspaper of its excrement and put all this in a tray. Let the cat's smell will appear in a tray.
Do not punish the pet by force, do not stick with a nose into pools, better strictly tell "It is impossible!". Cats perfectly understand intonation of people. After such punishment take away in a tray and rummage his paw in filler. When your pet descends in a tray, praise it by a tender voice, stroke, it is possible to treat with something tasty.
It is better to wash places of pools in the apartment weak solution of potassium permanganate or vinegar at once. It is possible to wipe the place with a piece of a lemon. Do not use chemicals with chlorine, they attract cats not worse than a meat smell.
Happens so, adult cats begin to mark corners in the apartment, boots of the owner and even his things. Do not think that thus the cat revenges you for something, just he does not like a smell of the things noted by it. It can be a smell of foreign cat on your clothes, or an unpleasant smell of chemistry, or there came the marriage period. Expelling others smell, cats leave the and calm down. For the solution of this problem it is possible to sterilize an animal and to wash places of a tag in the way stated above.
Some useful tips.
If you took absolutely little kitten, then you become a mom for him. And you have to show him where its toilet and as to use it. Have patience, for training it will be required to you not less than two - three days.
If at you the adult cat gave birth to kittens, then at first she will clean after them their excrements. And further she will show how it is necessary to use a tray. Kittens study at mother and each other so problems should not arise.
If you sheltered a cat from the street, then it is better to use at first instead of filler sand. It is important because outdoors this cat, most likely, dug in the affairs to the earth. It you reduce time of schooling of a cat to a tray.
If you took an adult cat or a cat, then ask owners his tray. Also do not forget to ask what type of filler was used in a toilet. Cats are very captious, and, having got used to one type of filler, will very difficult be accustomed by it to another.
If you already have one cat, and you brought still a kitten, then it will be easy to accustom the kid. Put their trays nearby, and over time the kitten will begin to imitate the senior cat.
You love the pets, and they will reciprocate to you.