Patent ID: 8816859

Claim:
A toilet for a pet animal comprising: a substantially continuous base layer adapted to receive a standing pet animal, a space above said base layer for receiving said pet animal, a switch coupled to said base layer automatically changing state in response to receiving said pet animal on said base to provide an initiating state for said switch, said switch automatically changing state in response to removal of said pet animal from said base to provide an exiting state for said switch, said initiating state and said exiting state accompanied by first and second signals, respectively; said base layer is resilient, flexible and normally upwardly curved, said space is on top of said base layer and said switch is below said base layer, receipt of said pet animal on said base layer causes said base layer to deflect down and change state of said switch, removal of said pet animal from said space causes said resilient base layer to return to normal upwardly curved state and change the state of said switch.