My pet spent the week with a relatives dog and came back with a new learned bad habit, drinking from the toilet -- If I leave the lid down a black mold starts growing within a day or two and rapidly spreads - Even with the lid open, without a toilet cleaner hanging, the mold grows -- It is definately mold as it grows and grows! -- I have tried Lysol brand clip on toilet bowl hangars but with the lid closed they are only effective for a few days. My spouse doesn't like the smell of the hangar with the lid open and is paranoid they will kill the cat if he drinks from the toilet with the lysol brand Cling toilet cleaner hanger. So what are my options? Certainly others have pets who drink from the toilet.
If I put nothing in the toilet, mold will grow, lid up or down. I also don't want to eat away at the rubber tank flapper which I was frequently replacing when I put cleaners in the tank; which is why we switched to a bowl hangar. I have used a weekly cup of bleach in the bowl to kill existing mold when it was an unbeatable problem when we first moved in -- I would hope there is a more reasonable answer than doing this weekly to both toilets. We are on city water.
Thanks in advance. Andy