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"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
We are all Rhodesians now.
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Why anyone would alter their lives to accommodate an animal too stupid to even learn it's name never ceases to amaze me.
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Cat allergic, so won't be having one around me. Love the packing tape training solution! 
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+ 1 on the mouse traps,first thing I thought of.
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Why anyone would alter their lives to accommodate an animal too stupid to even learn it's name never ceases to amaze me. Yup. They have their place, outside, where they can kill the rodents before the rodents get inside. I'll never live under the same roof as a cat ever again. Did it one time, never again.
It's about like this:
"Do you puff peters?"
"Hell no!"
"NAZI!!!"
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OOps, I guess I best not have you come over to my side of Kirkland. We have two.
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look who's back under his original name.. Yep, wonder how long it will be before we are entertained with another 100 page pugg fest?
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Put it outside where it belongs. Problem solved. This ^^^^ has always worked for me without fail!
One man with courage makes a majority....
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use the cat relocation program, no one has to know the better....shucks and darn hon, I guess a coyote got it.
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Roy,
The water bottle technique is typically a great way to train cats to stay off the counter. Some people make the mistake of yelling or otherwise raising their voices at the cat while they are using the bottle. By doing this, they only allow the cat to associate that it is you vs. the water bottle that they need to avoid.
In other words, if you are not there, they feel safe to continue to the behavior. A better way is to use a high powered squirt bottle on the cat every time it's on the counter. Don't say anything [as difficult as it is] or otherwise draw attention to yourself. Give the cat a good dose of water in the head each time. Most cats hate water.
I assume there is nothing on the counters to attract them. If the wife is giving treats, she needs to only give them in places you want them to be. Cats love towels, papers, and other items to sit on where they feel safe. Typically, this is an area that is higher off the floor.
Make sure they have a place in the house they enjoy....by a window, on top of a cat tree, on top of an appliance or dresser. Somewhere that they have their own place. Try catnip as an incentive.
Be patient. They are great pets with fun personalities. In time, they will win your heart! PM me if you continue to have issues with this. ~Sherri you can't make stuff like this up.. Me thinks she/he just did...
Epstein didn't kill himself.
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Biden didn't win the election.
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To those of us that had SM's post inflicted on them: refer to Shrapnel's method for cat behavior modification. You do not have to own a vintage GTO to learn the lessons offered.
I would show the link if I knew how.
mike r
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Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
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Boot heel.
Get 'm while they're young.
They get cagey as they grow.
Last one I popped had gotten too smart for me to work alone.
Up on the porch piss spraying everything and eating dog food, but run like the devil every time I happen by cuz I missed him 2 or3 times.
Spotted him out the window eatin and sprayin at first light couple weeks ago.
Told the little woman "give me 90 seconds then walk out front and around the porch, you'll herd him right to me.
Soon as he hops the fence, I'll paste him."
Worked like a charm.
He landed then turned only to find himself looking up a barrel 10 feet away.
Too late.
BANG.
I still don't know which was funnier, him a floppin with blood spraying or hearing the wife around front of the house laughing her ass off.
BAN THE RAINBOW FLAG!
PERVERTS OFFEND ME!
"When is penguin season, daddy? I wanna go kill a penguin!"
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My daughter's Maine Coon was doing the same thing. Never when we were around, but would find hair on the counter, stove, etc. Tried the squirt gun, but they're smart enough not to do it whe you're around, after getting hit a few times.
One night before we all went to bed, I grabbed a roll of clear packaging tape, and pretty much covered the counters and stove with strips, sticky side up. Within about 10 minutes of lights out, a noise erupted from the kitchen......sounded like the Wreck of the Hesperus in there. As I flipped on the lights coming down the hallway, the cat was rolling/squalling/thundering its way toward the basement steps. I grabbed two loose ends of tape and jerked as he went by. You could've stuffed a pillow with what was left on the tape.
He had a hitch in his giddy up for a few days, but no real injuries. We all still laugh about it to this day. Never had an issue with him on the counters or the stove since. It's worth a try. That's brilliant! If killing them is out then this sounds like the next best option!
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Roy,
The water bottle technique is typically a great way to train cats to stay off the counter. Some people make the mistake of yelling or otherwise raising their voices at the cat while they are using the bottle. By doing this, they only allow the cat to associate that it is you vs. the water bottle that they need to avoid.
In other words, if you are not there, they feel safe to continue to the behavior. A better way is to use a high powered squirt bottle on the cat every time it's on the counter. Don't say anything [as difficult as it is] or otherwise draw attention to yourself. Give the cat a good dose of water in the head each time. Most cats hate water.
I assume there is nothing on the counters to attract them. If the wife is giving treats, she needs to only give them in places you want them to be. Cats love towels, papers, and other items to sit on where they feel safe. Typically, this is an area that is higher off the floor.
Make sure they have a place in the house they enjoy....by a window, on top of a cat tree, on top of an appliance or dresser. Somewhere that they have their own place. Try catnip as an incentive.
Be patient. They are great pets with fun personalities. In time, they will win your heart! PM me if you continue to have issues with this. ~Sherri you can't make stuff like this up.. Me thinks she/he just did... She did not even write this, he did, she never signs "~Sherri", she does not normally sign. He does it so others will think it is her, except that it is not normal for her so it gives him away. He had to post under her name, because nobody gives a flying fugg about him, and would not waste a second reading anything he would write, and when they do, they tell him off, so he posts under her name in order to get attention.
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A little less than a quart of water in a spray bottle, a 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar and one tiny squirt of sunlight dish soap (no more or animal will have shiits), shake. Spray the counters till damp before you leave, when kitty jumps up there, it sticks to feet, kitty licks feet, kitty gets ticked off as stuff tastes like shiit, after a short time kitty gets over counter top sitting. Wipe off counters with hot damp cloth, leaves amazingly clean counter behind.
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I kind of like cats however they have to know their place. One night after a beer or two I watched my college aged son's new cat back up to my AR 15 and raise it's tail. I immediately soaked it thoroughly in the sink and tossed it in the freezer so it could contemplate its' sins.
And promptly forgot. My wife was somewhat chagrined when she opened the freezer the next day. I subsequently observed that both her and my son's comportment became less irritating.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier
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Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
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SSScat makes a motion sensor/CO2 blaster that works LINK but often if you just give a cat an elevated spot of it's own, it'll stay off yours.
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