CANBERRA (Reuters) - The queue for the toilet is about
to get longer.

Fed up with the mess created by kitty litter and
inspired by the cat "Mr Jinks" in the Hollywood film
"Meet the Fockers", an Australian woman has invented a
toilet training system for cats called the
"Litter-Kwitter".

Mother-of-two Jo Lapidge is flushed with success after
teaching her family's Burmese cat, Doogal, to use the
loo.

"Doogal has fallen in, but he hasn't fallen in by
accident, he has done it playing with the water,"
Lapidge told Reuters.

The Litter-Kwitter (http://litterkwitter.com.au/) is a
three-step process, starting with a red toilet
seat-shaped disc filled with cat litter and sitting on
the floor next to the toilet, like a normal tray. Next
the red disc is placed on the toilet so the cat can
get used to jumping up on to the seat.

Then the red disc is replaced with an amber disc with
a small hole. When the cat is accustomed to the water
below, the amber disc is replaced with a green disc
which has a larger hole.

The aim is that fastidious felines should eventually
be able to use a normal toilet seat.

"Because the water covers the smell, it makes the
burying or covering up instinct redundant ... To fully
train Doogal it took about eight weeks," said Lapidge,
adding that she hopes to start manufacturing the
Litter-Kwitter soon.

Marcia
But, unlike Mr Jinks, teaching cats to flush could be
a little harder.