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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / April 2007Cat paw prints on the toilet bowl
My foster cat has a habit of hiding inside the toilet bowl. The behaviour is strange to say the least, but we live with it. What I really need help with is the black paw prints on the toilet bowl. I have tried bleach, Baking soda, vinegar (made a nice white foaming volcano) but the cat's black paw prints remained. I've also tried Dawn dish washing liquid. Nothing has worked for me. The cat prints on the inside of the toilet bowl make it look dirty all the time. I am embarrassed when company stops by. Help! :~ ( Thanks, Nicole On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:14:43 -0700, nefreed wrote: > My foster cat has a habit of hiding inside the toilet bowl. The > behaviour is strange to say the least, but we live with it. What I [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > company stops by. Help! :~ ( > Thanks, Nicole You're kidding, right? What would make the cat's paws leave such a dark stain? Tell your company to be sure to flush because that is where the cat hangs out. Charlie Yea it would take a LOT to leave a stain in the bowl that wont clean away.... > On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:14:43 -0700, nefreed wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Charlie On 3 Apr, 07:14, nefr...@gmail.com wrote: > My foster cat has a habit of hiding inside the toilet bowl. > The behaviour is strange to say the least, but we live with it. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > company stops by. Help! :~ ( > Thanks, Nicole As long as it is a ceramic one, try acid. When we moved into this house 12 years ago, there were prints all over the inside of the bowl that I hate to think about even now.. but a gasped breath and a generous dose of acid got shot of everything in it & believe me there was plenty of marks all over it. I left it in there for a few hours and went back to it & flushed it, it was like new again. Good Luck, S;o) Doesn't your toilet bowl have water in it? -- Barb Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time. > Doesn't your toilet bowl have water in it? Or a lid you can close to keep the cat out?  SignatureLynne Suddenly, without warning, Lynne exclaimed (04-Apr-07 5:43 AM): >> Doesn't your toilet bowl have water in it? > > Or a lid you can close to keep the cat out? If he's not in the USA, there's not a lot of water in it. From what I've seen, only us Yanks still have toilets that have more water than a goldfish bowl. jmc > >> Doesn't your toilet bowl have water in it? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > jmc Then how do your turds go down with just one flush? You see... over here, we 'yanks' tend to be a bit larger than you limy bastards over there. You've been inbreeding on that little island for so long that it has affected your body size (your teeth, too:). And a larger body translates into bigger crap-piles. I'm not trying to be gross here. This is a fact. So when we sit down on a toilet that has only as much water as a fish bowl, but when it comes to flushing, our mess won't go down in one attempt. We have those new 'water efficient' environmentally nutty toilets over here, but everyone who gets one ends up ripping it out for the old original model. The stuff has to go down, bub. And we don't flush our waste out into the streets, as I've heard you people have done in times past. We are sanitary folks. We don't have plagues and world wars and the like going on over here. Not unless the muslims or the blacks are involved. We just so happen to be large people. And I don't mean fat. I mean taller, broader and wider. Just like everything else we do, make and say. So don't put us down because you happen to have small azzholes over there. Because the next time Germany comes calling, we might just sh.t on YOU instead of pulling your a.ses out of the fire. Again. IBen Getiner Suddenly, without warning, The Nice Mean Man exclaimed (04-Apr-07 9:11 PM): >>>> Doesn't your toilet bowl have water in it? >>> Or a lid you can close to keep the cat out? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > here, we 'yanks' tend to be a bit larger than you limy bastards over > there. <dross deleted> > IBen Getiner Ya missed the "us" on my post. And I've been using those low-water toilets for some many years, and haven't had to double-flush even once. jmc My pussy is fasinated by a flushing toilet. She often jumps up to watch when she hears a flush. Once I caught her drinking from the toilet. After that I don't let her eat off my plate any more and also now keep a cup of water in the tub so she don't have to drink from the toilet. On Apr 3, 2:14�am, nefr...@gmail.com wrote: > My foster cat has a habit of hiding inside the toilet bowl. > The behaviour is strange to say the least, but we live with it. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > company stops by. Help! :~ ( > Thanks, Nicole He's probably drinking from it as well, Nicky. You should stop this behavior immediately. The reason for his attraction to the commode is really quite primitive. He wants to share your scent, and apparently the normal means afforded to him as a cat is not sufficient.This behavior sounds a little on the unbalanced side. I'd have this checked into by a professional. But definitely stop him if he's gulping from the toilet. That can lead to a nasty little infection of the digestive tract, I believe.. Good luck. IBen Getiner > He's probably drinking from it as well, Nicky. You should stop this > behavior immediately. The reason for his attraction to the commode is [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > IBen Getiner I'm going to try to respond to many posts all in this one.... Barb There is a bit of water in the bottom of the toilet, not high enough that she can't sit in the toilet without getting wet. She doesn't mind water though, and frequently joins us in the shower, and has joined me in the bathtub as well. She drinks the bathwater if I take a bath, and sometimes drinks out of the toilet. Charlie & JT I'm not sure why her pawprints are so black. Maybe litter dust? Maybe the litter dust is compounded by the fact that we have hard water? That's another reason it doesn't make sense that she drinks the water (it has a bit of sulphury smell) when we have bowls of bottled water and fountains with running bottled water available for the cats to drink from. Sheelagh what kind of acid? I may need to give this a try. IBen, She is a bit of a strange cat. That's why she had to go to foster before we could put her up for adoption. We've been fostering her since September. She was near untouchable when we took her in to foster. Now she will sit on laps and can be petted for minutes at a time. She is also very talkative, and will sit with you and respond if you talk to her like you are having a conversation. I am interested in what you say about this being her way of trying to share our scent. Do you think we don't give her enough time? She often sits on laps, and hangs out near us, or chats with us, even though she often doesn't want to be petted. Thanks so much to everyone, Nicole |
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