On Jul 8, 9:18*am, ImStillMags > wrote:
> On Jul 8, 7:00*am, Orpheus99 > wrote:
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> > On 7/8/2010 10:42 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
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> > > 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.
> > > nancy
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> > 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? My cat's have
> > always been 'water spray-bottle trained' to keep off those particular
> > horizontal areas, and I've never once, in 30-40 years of
> > cat-companionship seen any of my cats go up there 'when I'm in the house...'
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> > ... 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...
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> > Orpheus99
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> > "A painter paints pictures on canvas. *Musicians paint their pictures on
> > silence." *~Leopold Stokowski
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> Exactly. *If people think they are keeping their cats off the kitchen
> counters, they are delusional.

My former cat really didn't go on counters or the dining room table.
This one goes on the table, and it's not worth my time to try to get
her not to. She rarely goes on the counter across from the sink/
stove, and never goes on the sink/stove side counter, and not because
I go to a big effort.
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> I use a bleach sanitizing 1 TBS to a gallon of water to wipe my
> kitchen down well when I want to feel like I've
> sanitized everything. * Otherwise it's just a regular wipe down after
> doing the dishes and sweeping up.

People who spend money on expensive germ killers are wasting that
money. Bleach works just fine, the 1T/gal is for already cleaned and
rinsed surfaces. While I was off kayaking, my wife bought a can of
Dow Scrubbing Bubbles. That's $4 we'll never get back.
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> One of the reasons people are sick all the time is that we are not
> allowing kids to eat dirt and boogers and
> get dirty. * The immune system doesn't have a chance to work properly.

I was with you 100% until you got to the booger eating.

--Bryan