Day 80

Tomorrow we are leaving phase orange bowl which lasted two weeks.
Two weekends ago I was away and Ziggy went to the bathtub in protest twice. When I came back everything went back on track.

Mimi.

However, whenever Ziggy finds the litter is not to is taste (too humid from pee?) or I do not pay attention when he wants to go poop, he does it in the bathtub.... Anyway, no more going to the carpet, so I am moving to phase green bowl, with a bigger hole/cup.

Ziggy.

As it can be seen by the pictures, both cats are putting their hinder legs on the bowl, not on the seat. We may have trouble when the bowl disappears...
Also I may try to get a bowl that better fits the seat for the next phase, so Ziggy - that is almost 7 kilos and a long cat - can feel more confortable.

Day 70

I am so happy! We all are. Phase silver bowl went perfectly and the cats are now on phase orange bowl. I didn't even roll the dinning room carpet (although I still have some heavy stuff on the corners, like chairs).

That is how Ziggy's snout gets after so much excavating.

Mimi even aims for the centre of the cup, peeing directly in the water!

My main concern today is that I will spend three days in my mother's house by the sea where they have access to the garden and things my go wrong like it happened before.
I may not take them and ask some one to take care of them. Poor darlings... they love to run after the seagulls and climb the fig tree. They can do it later after the training.

The orange bowl with a cup from fresh cheese.

 

Introducing the orange bowl.

Ziggy, investigating where Mimi's poop goes.

Conclusions until now:
a) No carpets in the house if you have a digger;
b) No going from one method to the other: I began with the DIY bowl with a hole system and should have stayed with it instead of trying the glass bowl inside the plastic bowl (check DYI Systems page here) and the commercial kit Servicat.
c) No moving to the next phase imediatly after the cats use the bowl - you have to stay at least a week - or even two - in each phase.

Day 63 (9C)

The experiment with the commercial kit, Servicat, is over. Today I sold it for half the price to a girl that may be luckier since she does not have a digger at home (her cats prefer the bathtub to the litter, so they may adopt the toilet bowl).

The basic scheme for this phase, without litter and roll. When I use the toilet I set their litter bowl on the other yellow bowl.

While I was away for four days the cats went to the sitz bath with no problem. Today I upgraded to the yellow bowl with the roll of toilet paper in the middle. They will stay at it for a week, come rain or come shine, poop on the carpet or not. I am going to follow the original plan with no more detours.