Pets in your toilet and Pets in your bed
Pets in your toilet – more common than you might think!
Do you go to the toilet alone? Or does your pet accompany you to the bathroom? Our dogs and cats generally have no need to enter our bathrooms. Yet they do!
Are your pets in your toilet with you? If they are, it’s probably for one of more of these reasons:
- to accompany us
- to check out the odours!
- to drink from the shower or toilet bowl!
- to toilet themselves
Of course there are some pets who hate to be alone. Accompanying you to the toilet can be a signal that your pet may be a likely candidate to suffer separation anxiety. If this is the case in your household, then you might like to introduce some gradual separations from your pet. With my clients who suffer from this condition (and that can be owner AND pet), I always tell them “You have my permission to go to the toilet alone.”
Then there are the kittens and puppies who love to sneak into the bathroom at any opportunity to unravel the toilet roll. No matter how many toys and how much money you spend on them, toilet rolls are an invaluable source of fun. Someone needs to invent a lock for the toilet roll. Pets in your toilet is one thing but constantly finding unravelled toilet roll is another!
Or do you get licked as you step out of the shower? Some pets appear to love this way of obtaining fresh water!
For most pets, the toilet lurking is simply an ideal opportunity to have a captive audience. You are bound to that seat for a minute or two and your pet is getting your attention. Heaven!
So, is your pet a toilet lurker?
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I go alone as there is no room in the small toilet for the three cats, three house dogs and six outside dogs.
Oscar always joins me while I go to the bathroom. If I shut the door, he just sits outside the door waiting for me to finish
my dog is alway with me
i usually end up with 2 kids a dog and a cat with me.....even in the middle of the night the cat comes with me
Tigger LOVES to accompany me to the toilet, though I am able to shut him out, and he will wait just outside the door, quietly even, unless I take too long. Then he'll miaow at me under the door, just to make sure I haven't fallen in! ;-)
My cat Chicken sits on my lap when I go to the toilet. Yes. And also jumps up on the shower wall and watches whilst I cleanse.
My baby boy Toby the Cat, more often than not, comes into the bathroom whilst I am on the toilet and uses his litter tray (which is in the bathroom)
i can't even shut the door Ralphie cries and scratches at it lol we are all mad. happy but mad
Yep all my 3 come into the bathroom and toilet but my fella loves water so sits and waits on the bathtub for me and drinks from the tap.
It's worse when they want to sit on your lap!