I've been lucky with all my cats not getting on the work surfaces. I caught Boots once and he got squirted with the water pistol, never seen any evidence of a repeat performance. He use to be a problem getting on the dining room table as a kitten because he wanted to play with/on the low level lighting shade!! Nellie's recommendation of "Sticky Paws" on the chairs put a stop to that, and obviously he can jump up there now but seems to have lost interest, unless I'm stupid enough to leave something on it he thinks he can play with.
He's also given up strolling across, and patting bits and pieces off, the mantelpiece thank goodness! The biggest worry is his obsession with flies or anything that buzzes, wherever the buzz goes Boots is in hot pursuit!
I used Sticky Paws on the new sofa in March, a few strips down the ends of the arms, I keep a cover on the main section unless people are here. Neither cat has made any attempt to scratch it, not even around the back luckily. I've only recently remove the strips, fingers crossed now.
I'm pretty certain Alf stays off the work surfaces because it's too much bloody effort to get up there. He's bone idle really. Harvey is much better behaved and definitely could get up there easily. The boy is so big he can actually reach the work surfaces with his paw ... as he does in his efforts to speed me along with the preparation of prawns for his dinner.
I know they don't get up there though because I have left food in the kitchen and gone out and it hasn't been touched ... and I mean fish that I had cooked for them.
Mr M is going to have me locked up when he reads that I feed my moggies on fish and prawns lol.
She's certainly landed on her paws, and looking absolutely lovely.
None of our dogs have ever been allowed on the furniture, for a start, they've always been huge and hairy, and secondly, we've always had expensive furniture!
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Sept 28, 2016 14:13:09 GMT
I cover the dry washing which I leave till ironing on a dining room chair with a throw as otherwise they both like to sit on the top and cover it with fur.I have to move the kitchen stools out of the way into the middle of the kitchen if there is a joint cooling as they will use them to get near the joint. Katya went through a phase of jumping into the sink to get water directly from the tap.
I can see the attraction of fresh laundry - I certainly wouldn't fancy a snooze on the dirty knicker pile*
*not that we have a dirty knicker pile but I had a colleague who did. If she was behind with the washing, she'd rummage through it to find the least offensive undies
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Oh yik Nellie. I don't have a dirty knicker pile either but if I'm sorting stuff to be washed and don't pick it up straight away there will be a cat on it. They also like clean washing. And pretty much anywhere they didn't ought to be.
I do also have a picture somewhere of Alf in my knicker drawer. I was tidying out the drawer above, turned round and there he was.
He is. But somehow he knows it. He expects the world to be his oyster because he's just so damned gorgeous. And how he knows to stare right down the camera lens I don't know. Neither makes him any less adorable though. )