Orpheus99 wrote:
> On 7/8/2010 10:42 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> would require of a commercial kitchen, even if my cat doesn't
>> go on the counters, she still spends enough time in there as
>> that's where she's fed.

> How many cat owners 'really believe' that their cats don't go onto the
> kitchen table or counters when we're out of the house?

I can't speak for anyone else's cat. Mine doesn't go on the
counters, she can barely jump up on the couch. She's not a
jumper by any stretch of the imagination. She's never shown
any interest in going on the counters.

Now, if you were to say she gets on the furniture in the livingroom
where I don't want her, and she waits til I'm gone to do it, you'd
be right.

> ... however... on a few occasions I have entered the house at times, I
> suppose, that the cat wasn't paying attention, walked into the kitchen
> and was as surprised as the cat, who virtually flew off the counter
> and disappeared under the couch for the next three hours... finally
> slinking out, keeping well in the shadows and close to the walls
> making her way
> to her litter box. Hey... when ya gotta go, ya gotta go...

And that would be a good time as any. Heh. Not like you're going
to stop her.

nancy