Making the (human) toilet safe for your Chin
Jan 20, 2012 11:16:05 GMT -5
Post by xanadu1jw on Jan 20, 2012 11:16:05 GMT -5
Hi everybody, I know this is long but I just thought I would post this here as it might save the lives of a few Chinchillas as I imagine it most likely has mine. She loves to jump up on the toilet when I leave the door to that part of the bathroom open. Then she proceeds to munch quite productively on our "library". Lol
Anyway, to get to the point! I, like most women, have been unsuccessful at teaching my Dh to leave the toilet seat down, much less close the lid, so I just had to come up with a method that would overcome his inability to help me in this area. After trying several methods, one of which I have a patent pending for, I find that the simplest is to take a tubular shaped heavy duty plastic clothes hanger and hang the hook of it over the center of the edge of the upper water tank just under the tank lid and then set the tank lid back down on it. This causes the hanger to hang at an approximate 45 degree or less angle to the front of the toilet and thus act like a spring when the seat lid is against it pushing the lid and also, if it is up, the seat, forward enough that it falls closed unfailingly, at least for my toilet, and at the same time is flexible enough to allow almost completely normal use of the toilet. I explain "almost" below.
Yes the hanger sticks out and looks weird but I use a white one that at least matches the tank so that helps a little and I DON'T CARE how weird it looks to other people if I don't have my little Pansy fall in and get soaked and then get horribly sick, get a fungus, or worse yet, drown! As we know too many have had this happen to them from not realizing the possibility in advance. And for me, one is too many.
I leave our toilet this way all the time as it does also prevent spraying bacteria every time you flush to a large extent. And because I can't count on myself to remember to put it back when I let her out of her cage for her exercise or before I sit on it in the middle of the night (It also prevents my Dh from leaving the seat up!
) . So having it there all the time makes us used to the one inconvenience of it and that is that you have to "ready yourself" before you open the lid and sit down as it is NOT going to stay open without you holding the seat and/or lid up. When sitting, the hanger I use does not break if you lean back and causes no discomfort whatsoever although if you forget to grab the seat and/or lid and lower them manually when you do arise, you are going to get that notorius sound all through the house of the toilet part/s crashing down unless you do as I did and attach little soft rubber knobs to the undersides of the seat & lid to cushion their fall. So try it everybody, it's free except for the knobs and they aren't really necessary as when mine fell off I didn't replace them and we are totally used to the "way" of doing it now as you adjust really quickly to lowering them. And yes my Dh is quite happy with it as he likes Pansy a lot and doesn't want anything to happen to her either. C'mon, everybody's got a heavy duty plastic coat hanger in the house! Do it now! Even more important than anything of all, this could even save the life of a small child by preventing it from falling in and drowning as has happened, again, TOO OFTEN!!!!! Because of our letigious world and my desire to not cause any kind of injury to anyone I insist that if you use any of my suggestions here that you determine whether it is safe and good for your particular situation and that you own the complete responsibility for it if anything does go wrong as I can't predict any differences in your situation from mine nor be held responsible if you use any of my suggestions in any part of what I put here. If you do have small boy in the house it is very important to install the rubber cushions if your toilet doesn't have any so that if they manage to get the toilet lid or seat up there is not as much likelihood of them being injured by it coming down on their private parts as this has been a thing that can happen with any toilet as shown in the third link here: www.google.com/search? client=safari&rls=en&q=child+drowned+in+toilet&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Anyway, to get to the point! I, like most women, have been unsuccessful at teaching my Dh to leave the toilet seat down, much less close the lid, so I just had to come up with a method that would overcome his inability to help me in this area. After trying several methods, one of which I have a patent pending for, I find that the simplest is to take a tubular shaped heavy duty plastic clothes hanger and hang the hook of it over the center of the edge of the upper water tank just under the tank lid and then set the tank lid back down on it. This causes the hanger to hang at an approximate 45 degree or less angle to the front of the toilet and thus act like a spring when the seat lid is against it pushing the lid and also, if it is up, the seat, forward enough that it falls closed unfailingly, at least for my toilet, and at the same time is flexible enough to allow almost completely normal use of the toilet. I explain "almost" below.
Yes the hanger sticks out and looks weird but I use a white one that at least matches the tank so that helps a little and I DON'T CARE how weird it looks to other people if I don't have my little Pansy fall in and get soaked and then get horribly sick, get a fungus, or worse yet, drown! As we know too many have had this happen to them from not realizing the possibility in advance. And for me, one is too many.
I leave our toilet this way all the time as it does also prevent spraying bacteria every time you flush to a large extent. And because I can't count on myself to remember to put it back when I let her out of her cage for her exercise or before I sit on it in the middle of the night (It also prevents my Dh from leaving the seat up!
) . So having it there all the time makes us used to the one inconvenience of it and that is that you have to "ready yourself" before you open the lid and sit down as it is NOT going to stay open without you holding the seat and/or lid up. When sitting, the hanger I use does not break if you lean back and causes no discomfort whatsoever although if you forget to grab the seat and/or lid and lower them manually when you do arise, you are going to get that notorius sound all through the house of the toilet part/s crashing down unless you do as I did and attach little soft rubber knobs to the undersides of the seat & lid to cushion their fall. So try it everybody, it's free except for the knobs and they aren't really necessary as when mine fell off I didn't replace them and we are totally used to the "way" of doing it now as you adjust really quickly to lowering them. And yes my Dh is quite happy with it as he likes Pansy a lot and doesn't want anything to happen to her either. C'mon, everybody's got a heavy duty plastic coat hanger in the house! Do it now! Even more important than anything of all, this could even save the life of a small child by preventing it from falling in and drowning as has happened, again, TOO OFTEN!!!!! Because of our letigious world and my desire to not cause any kind of injury to anyone I insist that if you use any of my suggestions here that you determine whether it is safe and good for your particular situation and that you own the complete responsibility for it if anything does go wrong as I can't predict any differences in your situation from mine nor be held responsible if you use any of my suggestions in any part of what I put here. If you do have small boy in the house it is very important to install the rubber cushions if your toilet doesn't have any so that if they manage to get the toilet lid or seat up there is not as much likelihood of them being injured by it coming down on their private parts as this has been a thing that can happen with any toilet as shown in the third link here: www.google.com/search? client=safari&rls=en&q=child+drowned+in+toilet&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
