Wife had to have one, but I can't keep it off the countertops when I'm not home. It knows better when we're home, it gets sprayed with a squirt bottle.
I'm thinking electrified grid placed on countertops, or tape sticky side up. What a PITA cats are. Stinkin filthy animals walking thru the litterbox then onto the counters. This has got to stop.
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
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
Cats typically dislike COLD water, not water per se.
Angel's advice is sound. Remember that cats like elevated perches, and countertops are often the highest places in an average home. If you don't already have a cat tree, get one. Your cat should be drawn to the cat tree's height and may abandon the countertop for the higher cat tree. During the transition process, use the squirt bottle technique.
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..
I'm sure the OP found your post helpful. Sorry it didn't meet your standards.
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..
I'm sure the OP found your post helpful. Sorry it didn't meet your standards.
The other trick I have heard of is putting mouse traps on top of the counter, then covering with newspaper. The cat walks across, enjoying the noise then snap! - it is startled but unharmed. Only a couple of snaps and it starts avoiding the counters.
Get divorced. Then you won't have a house with countertops to worry about. You also won't have a wife who brings chit into the house against your wishes, leaving you free to enjoy life on your own terms.
The other trick I have heard of is putting mouse traps on top of the counter, then covering with newspaper. The cat walks across, enjoying the noise then snap! - it is startled but unharmed. Only a couple of snaps and it starts avoiding the counters.
I was an avowed cat hater when I married Sherri and have shot a truckload of them in the past. When I ran hounds I even trapped and used alley cats with various game scents sprayed on them to train and keep my hounds in shape and in tune in between hunting seasons. Now, I am also pretty attached to the cats and understand what cool pets they can be. I have even been helping out on cat "trap,spay, neuter and return" programs around here with Sherri and my previous experiences as a small time trapper have come in very handy. I am probably the only cat rescue worker in a wide range of area who hunts and has done any trapping so my experience has been fun to use in a new way.
Do train the cat as needed, but give it a chance to win you over. You might be surprised. We have four of them now and I like them all. Sherri puts up with my hunting hound and critter heads all over the walls, and I her cats. We have both learned to truly understand and enjoy each others 'critters' To the point that Sherri was excited with and for me when I drew a couple of good tags for this upcoming hunting season. We can all grow and learn, this may be an opportunity for you to do likewise and show love for your sweetie by caring for and about the things that she cares about, like a cat. It ain't that hard. Good luck!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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To the point that Sherri was excited with and for me when I drew a couple of good tags for this upcoming hunting season. We can all grow and learn, this may be an opportunity for you to do likewise and show love for your sweetie by caring for and about the things that she cares about, like a cat. It ain't that hard. Good luck!
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