The Life of Kitten Bucho – 4 Where Does He Go to the Toilet

For baby cats, excretion is a big problem. If they can't excrete, their lives are in danger. I learned from my previous experience of raising them by tapping their anus with tissue paper, and they urinated. But what about poop? Even if I lightly tapped his anus to stimulate him, he didn't poop. However, when I cleaned the back of the carrier bag, I found some hard, rolling poop, so I was relieved.

Next is toilet training.

At that time, Bucho was still living in a carrier bag, so he didn't have his own litter box. So when I noticed that Bucho was suddenly getting restless while running around the room, I quickly took him to the litter box in the bathroom.

This worked well for peeing.

Sometimes he would poop in the litter box, but sometimes he wouldn't. Either way, I had to keep an eye on him all the time. I thought this was a pain, but he was running to the litter box on his own.

The entrance to the liter box is high. It's taller than Bucho. I was impressed by the way he climbed up it.

Eventually, Bucho grew big enough to easily jump into the litter box, and when we got a cage with a litter box, he stopped running to the bathroom.
When it came to toilet training, Bucho was an excellent student. The resident cat, Shimao, wanted to use the baby toilet made from ripped newspaper even after he was three months old. Shimao may not have wanted to become an adult cat.