From http://www.toilettrainedcat.com/

This article in the Wall Street Journal delves into the hot topic debate: To toilet train or not toilet train your cat?

This method is not for our household, since the author says “A contraption that fits in the toilet will likely mean giving up one of your bathrooms while kitty is being trained.” Uh, in my case, that would mean giving up my ONLY bathroom, and while I do love my cats, I’m not ready to stand in line for the bathroom behind them, or give my toilet over to them completely. Then what would I use – a litterbox?!

Have any menandcats.com readers tried to toilet train their cats?

Doesn't he look like he's about to cause trouble?

If I had a dollar for every time I uttered “Charley, no!” or some variant (“Charley, stop it!”, “Charley, get out of there!” “CHARLEY!!!!!!”) I’d be a wealthy woman.

At 10 years old, our resident tuxedo cat shows no sign of slowing down.

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I’m a summer person, and although I enjoy many things about Autumn (pumpkins, apples, and a return to fall knitting come to mind) I don’t like knowing that winter is soon to come. I’m always cold, no matter how many sweaters, scarves, and gloves I layer on and hot beverages I drink.

One thing that I do like about cooler weather, though, is the spike in cat cuddling – as demonstrated by the graph below. There’s a direct inverse proportion between temperature and amount of feline cuddling. When the weather cools, the feline-to-feline and feline-to-human cuddling both increase dramatically, especially on the part of Charley. Normally the more independent one, Charley is drawn to a blanket like a moth to a flame. When I put a blanket on my lap, he will occasionally actually come and sit on me. Both days this past weekend I woke up in bed to find two cats on me.