Hover Cat Seat Cat Toilet Training Kit - Cat Potty Toilet Training Kit - Cat Training - Toilet Training for Cats Includes Toilet Seat Plus 4 Training Plates - for Round & Elongated Toilet Seat Size

I was searching for a way to get my 13 year old 14 pound Siamese mix kitty BACK onto the toilet. A couple of years ago, during an illness, she let me know that the bathroom rug was more convenient than the toilet!This Hover seat is definately an improvement over ALL of the other brands on the market, and I've actually purchased many of them and even had a woodworker friend build a seat that didn't work! I originally trained on CitiKitty and there are videos on YouTube of Hendrix and Missy taking turns using the toilet.The overriding issue with these systems, in my opinion, is stability. And once you've had a cat fall into the toilet, it's gonna be a tough sell!I happened to notice immediately with this seat, that the top part slides when the cat walks around on it. Missy likes to circle the wagon train a few times prior to stopping to unload! So I got some stick-on felt pieces and attached them to the underneath of the cat seat so that it doesn't shift when the cat is on it!THEN, you're still faced with the slick plastic of the seat itself! Cats do not have velcro feet, and an older cat will tend to be less assured on a slippery surface. So I bought some stick-on non-slip shower strips and cut them to size, and stuck them on around the top of the seat! Presto! I watched Missy a number of times immediately after my restructuring of this wonderful product, and now she's COMFORTABLE and therefore WILLING to use the toilet! And I even have a rug on the floor as a test! Best of luck to all who try this system. Cat litter is the absolute worst! And this Hover seat is well made, though somewhat lacking, and can be retrofitted to perfection. (At the very least, the seat surface should have been non-slip!)

Took to it fairly well until I removed the first panel making a hole. Took to that again fairly quickly. Then as we were getting used to the larger hole, at 1 am she had decided to look in the hole, getting her head caught in it and pulling it loose and racing around screaming bloody murder as she thought it attacked her. I was dripping blood by the time I got it off of the panicked fur ball. She is a 6 month old kitten at that point. Took bribery to get her to use it after that and moving to the larger hole. Never made it to the next size up. She needed more room to put her feet on to hit the hole. As if she put her feet in the lower "litter box" portion, she got pee on her feet as there is not much room for litter. So she tried to stand on the edge as intended at the end of the training.Got a toilet lid set that includes a toddler seat that has 4 inches of room for her feet and she is now back to using it with bribery and getting better at using it.So it worked, but it could be improved and should be for continued use.

I've been using Hover's seat for about four months. Yes, it's expensive. It's also much nicer than any of the other toilet training systems that are currently available. TL;DR: it's cleaner than other systems, better made, and easier to work with. It's also helping my cats complete some of the final steps towards toilet training -- steps they weren't able to complete with the other system I tried.I've tried three toilet-training systems including this one. The first, many years ago, was a disposable toilet-training system, consisting of detachable plastic rings that one cuts apart with scissors and throws away as your cat makes progress. This was horrible. My cat hated it, and scooping litter cleanly was impossible.The second was the fuzzy milk apparatus. This got part of the job done, in that it acclimated my cats to the toilet, but it created lots opportunities for error and mess (If you use it, your cat *will* spread wet, urine/feces soaked litter on the seat that you sit on, and they *will* poop on the floor while perched on the toilet seat, facing the wrong direction). Once my cats had acclimated to using it, they made no further progress. I couldn't reduce the amount of litter, replace the litter with water, or remove the bowl (exposing the toilet water, etc.Hover's toilet seat is better made, better designed, cleaner, and easier to work with.The materials are hard, seem durable, and show no wear. All of them seem likely to last for a long time. The pieces fit together perfectly. Everything snaps and locks firmly into place, after which there is no wiggle or slipping. The bowl's flat bottom enables you to scoop more cleanly/easily, place it on another surface without an awkward balancing act, and store it compactly.There is also very little mess:* The bottom of the bowl stays clean because it sits far above the water, and splashes never reach it. (Flushable litter stalactites accumulated on the bottom of the fuzzy litter bowl)* The cats stay clean partly because their little arms can't reach the water. (This was a constant problem with the fuzzy milk system when I tried to replace litter with water or remove the bowl entirely).* You stay clean because the cats come into contact only with the lid.* The bathroom stays clean, too, because Hover's seat somehow prevents accidents. Since I switched to it, neither cat has peed or pooped outside the bowl (one continues to pee in the bathrooom sink, but that's a separate issue), and neither has made the extremely messy, smelly mistake of standing in the bowl while peeing/pooping in it. With the fuzzy milk system, my cats occasionaly pooped or peed in the wrong direction, missed the toilet, hit the seat, dropped bombs directly on the bathroom floor, or peed on themselves.Shortly after I started using Hover, I was able to remove the fuzzy milk system entirely. I should have started with this one and not wasted months on fuzzy milk's. (Edit to give credit where credit is due: fuzzy milk's system wasn't a waste. It did provide an easy transition between litter box and toilet. It's also easier to remove from the toilet then Hover, in that it isn't attached. Its bowl is also larger, which can help cats unaccustomed to relieving themselves in such a small area.))After nine months of very slow progress, my cats are just about fully toilet trained. I credit Hover's seat with helping them finish the last, most difficult steps of the process. I'll try to remember to update this post with a photo of one of them on the john.I have a couple of wishes:1. I wish the toilet seat itself were a bit thicker and less flexible. It's not flimsy, and it seems durable, but it's not as solid as I think it could be.2. I wish there were a way to seal both the bottom and top of the litter bowl.But these wishes don't change that fact that Hover's is an excellent toilet-training system that is, as far as I know, without peer in either the quality of its manufacture or its effectiveness.(Edit: fuzzy milk does deserve some credit. See my edit above.)(Dec 2022 update: one of my cats has gotten into the habit of pooping on the floor and peeing in the bathroom sink. Act quickly if your cat starts doing this. The habit is difficult to break once it takes hold. I may return to using both the Fuzzy Milk apparatus with the Hover seat, hoping to trick my can into returning to using the Hover seat, which he did for a while. I think he may just be uneasy about the slipperiness, so I'll probably try adding grip strips to the top of the seat.)Edit: just a Jan 2023 update. The habit of peeing and pooping outside the designated area took hold and sorry to the other cat. Now I'm back to using a litter box and will need to repeat the training steps. Lesson learned: fix 'misses' before they become a habit.

I followed another purchaser's suggestion and put no-slip shower strips on the cat seat to make her feel more secure. She took to using the tray on top of the commode quick and easy, but she absolutely REFUSES to use the tray when there is ANY hole in it. After the first try I went back to no hole and she began to use it again. Then I made a special plate with an even tinier hole than the 1st one in the series. It's about the size of a nickle. She will not use it. She will poke around the hole with her paw and stick her nose down in it, but she WILL NOT potty in the tray. She has been going in the floor around the commode, but now seems to have found somewhere else in the house for her business. (Great!) I contacted the seller and they've gotten right back to me, so maybe there is something else to try. I will update.