Do you have a new kitten? If you also own mama cat, and she is litter trained, then you are in luck. She will litter train her kittens. All you need to do is clean up the litter box afterwards. On the other hand, if she has not been litter trained, then your first step is to litter train mama cat. Otherwise, no amount of kitten litter training you do will help.

The first step of kitten litter training is to prepare to clean up any "accidents", and there will be a lot of "accidents". Once your kitten has peed or pooped in a particular spot, it will try to return there to do all of its future business. Partly, this is because it can smell its urine there. So, an important part of litter training your kitten is to get rid of all cat urine smells. To do this, you will need two items: a good blacklight (ultraviolet lamp) and an enzymatic cleaner for cat urine like Nature's Miracle. When you turn on the blacklight in the dark, it will cause all the spots where your kitten did its business to glow. The next step is to use the enzymatic cleaner to remove cat urine stains.

Step two is to prepare the litter box and cat litter for your kitten. The litter box needs to be the right size, not too high and not too low. Your kitten should be able to comfortably climb or jump into it. You also need to get a suitable cat litter, either sand or clay cat litter. Do not use clumping cat litter or biodegradable litter. If your kitten swallows clumping cat litter, she could get very sick. Some biodegradable litter is made of material which could cause an allergic reaction in cats. This reaction could be very severe in a little kitten. You may also want to use something which can attract your kitten to use the litter box – something like Dr Elsey's "Cat Attract" formula is known to help with litter training some cats. Who knows, it may help with your kitten litter training as well. Remember to place the litter box away from your kitten's food bowl. Far, far away. Your kitten, like you, does not like to eat its food right next to the toilet.

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Potty training a cat is becoming an increasingly popular way to get rid of cat litter instead of merely using a cat litter box. Compared to the latter, it offers convenience to the owner because, unlike when using a cat litter box, the owner will no longer have to clean up the litter after use, and it is much cheaper because he does not have to buy cat litter boxes that only serve as a temporary place for cat litter anyway.

So how exactly do you potty train your cat? Here are some tips to help you.

First off, teaching your cat to use the human toilet is not going to happen overnight. It will take weeks before a cat could adjust to her new environment and her new habits you taught her. Therefore, you need to be very patient in teaching her a new habit, which is to use the toilet.

Now that's said, let's start off by getting your cat to get used to her new environment by putting the cat litter box closer to the toilet. Then gradually raise the litter box higher next to the toilet every day with something like a pile of papers or books, or anything else that could raise it, until it is exactly at the level of the toilet. Remember that as you do this, you need to secure the place of the cat litter with a tape or else it will be knocked over by the cat when she uses the cat litter box.

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Cats don't necessarily need to be trained to use the litter box the same way a dog or a child needs to be potty trained. It's actually a natural born instinct for them to want to bury their waste in a soft, diggable material such as litter.

So most of the house training is already done for you! However, the litterbox should always be the best bathroom option available – otherwise you can run into problems.

But let's start at the beginning.

Just because a cat naturally is driven to use the litterbox, that doesn't mean you can't litterbox train a stubborn cat or encourage appropriate behavior.

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