On Jul 8, 7:44*am, sandi > wrote:
> Orpheus99 > wrote innews >
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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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> I've had that happen on many occasions also. *Quite funny.
> I was told to put jelly roll pans filled with water around the
> counter tops or where you don't want a cat to jump up too. *
> That is a heck of a shocker to the kitties. They think 2 or 3 times
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I put some strips of long, wide tape with the sticky side up on top of
the fridge as one of our cats would jump up to survey her kingdom. It
only took one time!