He mostly sleeps on the microwave, in that basket or on top of the fridge/freezer. To get to those places he goes to the edge of the unit which is at the opposite end, jumps up and walks along the unit, through the sink, across the drying rack, cooker and bread board. He then climbs across the bread and other food items , climbs up the stack of cake tins (usually sending them crashing to the floor which sets the dog off) and on to the microwave or higher. All having just come in from the garden so he leaves muddy pawprints over everything! And he leaves cat hair and 'bits' on everything too. Somewhat unsanitary to say the least!
On the odd occasion he sleeps elsewhere, it is either the merchant's chest, when he sends my pot pourri bowl and all the post flying (cue dog) or on the shelves in the lounge where he dislodges my candles, ornaments (the ones he hasn't broken yet), pictures etc (cue dog). He can't sleep where there is a space, he has to sit in the middle of things and wriggle!!
Oh yes, he also likes to puke while he is up high as he gets better coverage! Anybody want him? LOL
He mostly sleeps on the microwave, in that basket or on top of the fridge/freezer. To get to those places he goes to the edge of the unit which is at the opposite end, jumps up and walks along the unit, through the sink, across the drying rack, cooker and bread board. He then climbs across the bread and other food items , climbs up the stack of cake tins (usually sending them crashing to the floor which sets the dog off) and on to the microwave or higher. All having just come in from the garden so he leaves muddy pawprints over everything! And he leaves cat hair and 'bits' on everything too. Somewhat unsanitary to say the least!
On the odd occasion he sleeps elsewhere, it is either the merchant's chest, when he sends my pot pourri bowl and all the post flying (cue dog) or on the shelves in the lounge where he dislodges my candles, ornaments (the ones he hasn't broken yet), pictures etc (cue dog). He can't sleep where there is a space, he has to sit in the middle of things and wriggle!!
Oh yes, he also likes to puke while he is up high as he gets better coverage! Anybody want him? LOL
Can't see you with a future in marketing or publicity EB. What's his USP, apart from high altitude puking?
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Can't see you with a future in marketing or publicity EB. What's his USP, apart from high altitude puking?
But Nellie, just look at him!! (And that puking is quite a skill, Harry says, albeit not as marketable as some!!)
And I'll have you know I'm extremely qualified in Marketing - but even Mr Saatchi or Mr McCann & Mr Erickson would be hard pushed with that little bugger!!
Perhaps he could practice his skills on that nice Mr Saatchi - I know where he can be found as the Daily Mail helpfully print photos of him having lunch most days.
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
Ah yes. Hmm. Well. Handsome boy but I so couldn't cope with the trek over the kitchen work tops.
My two don't really even go in the kitchen so I don't have that problem. They do both get on the dining table when I'm not there as I've seen paw prints and caught the devils but I'm trying to get them to quit that with a reasonable level of success. But I have to be consistent.
Now if only I could teach Harvey NOT to drink out of the toilet I would be really happy.
Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Feb 5, 2015 10:13:50 GMT
Toilet drinking is associated with those members of the household who fail to put the lid down after use. Mr FP was shocked when Boris demonstrated this tendency recently and this has resulted in an improved % of lid closures. Katya prefers to jump into the kitchen sink and drink directly from the tap. She also likes to sit on the kitchen stools.
It drives me nuts, all this walking over the units, but we can't find a way to stop him. We have tried to block his path, thinking he would just jump down. Unfortunately, he took an even more tortuous route, involving kettle, coffee maker, windowsill and standing on the taps, and knocked even more off. We have tried putting things on the places where he likes to sleep to stop him going there, but he just knocks it all off (and there goes the flippin' dog again!) and sleeps there anyway!
At 15, I suspect there is an element of doolalliness creeping in resulting in a compulsion rather than just plain bloody-mindedness. We had a cat a few years ago who had a similar compulsion to walk straight over things, and a fixation with certain places, only much, much worse. Sort of sad but sort of amusing also, this other cat had a compulsion to squeeze under a shelf unit (about 3" clearance!) but would then get stuck and yowl like heck and had to be hauled out on a regular basis. She eventually 'went to sleep' under there and we had one heck of a job getting her out.
(PS Has the 'spoiler' thing stopped working? I got the box and all but it didn't insert it.)
I don't know if you want to try it but cats (well most cats) hate anything sticky on their paws. I've had some real success with stopping my boys getting on the dining table by placing large pieces of carboard with strips of double sided sticky tape on their preferred entry points.
And yes FP the bloody cure for toilet drinking is more about training the humans than the cat. Mind you he does make me laugh. He likes a fresh flush if he can get one so when you come out of the bathroom he invariably scoots in, just in case. He also won't do it if you're watching him. But putting down the lid is an easy cure.
Harvey also likes playing with the bubbles in the bath after I've had a shower. He leaps in the bath and chases them down the plug hole. He's bloody odd really.
I might try the sticky cardboard on the microwave and fridge. Not easy to do on the rest of the surfaces. Part of the problem is that he gets fed at the 'open' end of the unit, although one of the reasons we started feeding him there was that he would jump up and sit there anyway - vicious circle I guess! He has been fed there for over 8 years, mind, but has only started his mountaineering expeditions in the last year or so. As I said, doolalliness plays a large part I think!
In all the cats we have had we have never seen one drink from the toilet! Rosie doesn't do it either thankfully. We had one cat who used to like the tap running in the bath. That was the only time he would drink water - never saw him drink from anything else. He used to walk around the edge of the bath while you were in it too - those bath edges do get a bit slippery though.
I've never had a cat drink from the toilet before either and at one point (as a child) we had 16!! It was the paw prints that gave him away initially. I am just grateful he hasn't taught or encouraged Alf to do the same. Alf would fall in for sure bloody certain.
I don't mind the playing with the bubbles in the bath thing. That makes me chuckle more than anything else. Alf doesn't do that either.
Neither of them is afraid of water so the water spray deterrent doesn't work with them. They just shake the water off.
The sticky tape thing does work. But you have to be consistent.