"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
news:FkmZn.88361$sD7.80697@hurricane...
> ImStillMags wrote:
>> On Jul 8, 7:00 am, 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?
>
>> Exactly. If people think they are keeping their cats off the kitchen
>> counters, they are delusional.
>
> Well, I don't think I'm keeping her off. I did have a cat who liked to
> jump on things, he was a tuxedo. He might have jumped on the counters
> although I don't remember seeing him do it. This cat, she doesn't like
> heights and she doesn't jump. She crawls up the side of a chair or the
> bed to get onto them.
> If I have delusions, that my cat doesn't go on the counters isn't one
> of them.
>
> nancy


My cat can't jump as high as the kitchen counters, either. She jumps on
chairs and the sofa, sure, and I don't mind that. And she *has* gotten up
on the coffee table... I've seen the paw-prints between dustings But I
got carpeted steps to allow her to get up on the bed, which is pretty high.
(I'm pretty sure when I get to be the equivalent of her age I'll need steps
to get in bed, too!) But I'm sure she doesn't get up on the kitchen
counters.

I have a neighbor who feeds her cats on the kitchen counter. That makes me
cringe. They walk all over her kitchen counters and she doesn't care. (To
give her credit, her kitchen always *looks* spotless.) If my cat was able
to leap that high I'd object to it but I doubt seriously she can. And if
she could and I wasn't around I'm sure she would.

Jill