Day 3: CitiKitty on the Ground

It has been 3 days since we have started CitiKitty and it definitely has not been easy, and we had to adapt the CitiKitty training method.

On Day 2 Montee did not go to the bathroom at all. We could tell he needed to go by him continuously entering the bathroom (where his litter box used to be), trying to go potty in different parts of the house, and pawing at the litter in CitiKitty but refusing to actually jump up onto it. I would pick him up and put him on top of the CitiKitty, but he would just jump off.

By Day 3 I was getting nervous because he hadn't gone to the bathroom and he was acting very irritated. I decided to put the CitiKitty tray next to the toilet on the ground, where his litter box used to be. It may be a step back, but maybe he just needs to get used to the CitiKitty tray for a few days.

Finally, a few hours after we did this, we had success: Montee went to the bathroom (Number 1 and Number 2) in the CitiKitty on the ground with no help from me at all.

So it seems that we will keep the CitiKitty on the ground for a few days until he gets totally comfortable with using CitiKitty as his new litter box. I am actually surprised that the CitiKitty manual did not suggest doing this in the first place. It seems like a logical transition.