NO!

[alfreda89]

I DON'T NEED A CAT ON TOP OF THE FILING CABINET! I NEED FILES ON TOP OF THE FILING CABINET!

Ye gods, I swear there's a gecko hiding under those files, except that they never flutter. He knows I'm gonna yell, and he does it anyway. Guilty parties in the icon.

And where is the #$^# camera booklet? I would like to take the blasted thing on holiday.

No, we're not bailing at my end of the Hill Country -- not yet.

We're contemplating filling sandbags.

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[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Cat Training Tapes. Really.

Get yourself a cheap roll of clear packing tape, and put strips of it sticky-side-up on whatever surface you want the cat to stay off of. This works 2 ways:

1) As the cat jumps up, instead of getting a purchase with its front paws, it'll get a sliding strip of tape and end up back on the floor.

2) At this point, the sticky side of the tape is stuck to the cat's paws and perhaps the cat's fur. Cats do not like this.

We have convinced all our cats to stay off the kitchen counters this way. It may take occasional refresher courses, but the bonus is that the tape works even when you're not there to yell at the cat.

I've done it with double-stick tape...

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

And with static mats.... And Burmese are too clever. They literally learn to walk between the tapes, scat mats, etc. And keep testing every day, to see if the situation is still the same.

I can break Maisie of it in a couple of days. But she can tell the boys go up there, so she'll go back up as soon as she can.

I need to just put the mats out and leave them there. Unfortunately, I can't prepare dinner on them. So I wipe off the counters before cooking, with kirkland clorox wipes.

The files will not seem soi atractive once there's nothing to push off. What he really wants is to get to the high intensity light, because he's cold but won't go back to the bedroom to his heated basket to warm up. (He's 15.) He wants to be with me, and how can I say no?

Cat children. Sheesh.

[oliana0.livejournal.com]

Replace the files with fly paper one day a week (sticky side up, obviously).

;)

One day a week....

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

I like how you think. You could be owned by cats...except for the obvious reason....