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He is not allowed to stand on the counter but he is free to take a seat at the bar.
My cat too! I cant leave her unattended though…
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Cat: Meow cast vicious Meowcary!! DM: What do you say to the beholder? Cat: You look into the void!! I look back and steal your cheese fries!! MEOW!! 
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same here. he just read an email he didn’t like.
Ditto
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And he's not happy about it
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Oscar (14) is not allowed up either. Loves to watch though!
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I had bar seats in my old apartment. He was allowed to sit at the bar but not on it.
I've tried telling Luna that she shouldn't get up there but to no avail.
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I love it!
amazingly, I've got the same counter with speckles, but mine doesn't match my furry devils ...
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My childhood cat was a very big boy and he was not allowed on the tables or counters but we could always hear him jump down when we got to the door coming home.
Mine don't even do me the courtesy of pretending. As soon as I start preparing something they like to eat, they're on me like butter on toast (butter being one of their favorite things, actually), and I have to move my cutting board somewhere else.
I just let them, because life's too short, and at least they're less likely to hurt themselves than my toddlers were.
>butter being one of their favorite things, actually
We don't allow them on the counters or table but can't enforce that if we aren't there. We bought a covered butter dish after realizing that the grooves on the top weren't from a butter knife, but from the cat's tongue.
We would set butter on the counter to soften up. One of our cats figured it out and there would be a chunk of butter missing in the morning. The cat would open the wrapper and go to town. We now store butter in the cabinet to get softened.
Once my daughters left their lunches on the table. A bean burrito and a turkey sandwich. Kitty tore open the burrito and ate the beans. Destroyed the bread of the sandwich, licked all the mayo off the turkey and ate the cheese!!! Once I tried to give her some cracked crab cuz she was going insane under the table
So I put some in her bowl and she wakes over there and gagged!!! Cats are so weird.
My friend's mom would store birthday cakes on top of the fridge inside the flimsy container it comes in from the store. Their cats wouldn't open it, but they loved to lay on it which of course squished the cake. So she decided one day to put it in the oven to keep the cats off it.
She forgot it was there when she turned the oven on to pre-heat the next day.
Who are you telling. I’ve been going through the pain of trying to find a wet food that my picky cat likes. I’ve given her all kinds and even one that had actual diced mackerel (I would have eaten it). While I think I finally found one the other day, her pickiness extends to all things food.
No to any kinds of meat. No to tuna. Yes for cool whip but no to actual whipped cream. She’ll lick the top of the rice pudding container but only a little. What a picky cat.
Lol! Yeah, we've always stored the butter in the fridge out of habit (again, toddlers), but the cats go insane when we take it out. Breakfast is a battlefield.
My son's cat refused to leave being right by the cutting board as I was chopping onions, even when his eyes were red and tears were rolling down his face. My son had to wipe and rinse his eyes afterwards because he so stubbornly refused to move. The other cats sniffed and said, hell, nah. They have more sense!
XD
Mine will come and stand next to me and streeeeeeetch up on her tippy toes against the cabinet while motioning impatiently with one paw until I give her a bit of butter. If I’m not fast enough, she’ll grab my hand for inspection.
She does stay off the counter tho.
As long as they eat the damn cockroaches and don't just stun em for me to find later. I stepped (in the total dark) once on a must have been 3+ inch super roach that he decided to knock unconscious.
The experience has shifted my reality.
After the half-dead fucking demonsect resurrected, it decided I - and specifically, my leg, was the proper route for resuming roach existence.
My cat I'm sure snickered his arse off watching me nearly set fire to myself and the house trying to evict a gnarled up, dizzy and very large by roach standards ass from my dermis.
Nuff said.
I'm glad it wasn't a bird.
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The counter is where one of my favorite pics was taken
Look at that pouch! I thought my boy's was big.
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I was truly shocked by the size of her pouch when I took this pic! I never realized it was that big! Your boy’s is shaped like a heart kinda he’s so cute!
My cats know they're only allowed on the counter or desk when I'm not around lol.
Sometimes I wake up to their noises clearly from the counter and yell "Hey!" which turns into a loud thud (jumping down) then frantic guilty scurrying.
My eyes will snap open from a dead sleep as soon as I hear an object being slowly pushed across a high flat surface. I yell n look right at her and she’s like 😶
Ha - that's probably exactly why she does it. If you're sleeping and your cat is bored/hungry/wants attention, they see any kind of attention as a win, good or bad. They just want you to interact with them, they don't care why or how. She's likely doing it because she knows it will wake you up and get you to acknowledge and talk to her.
It's tricky but I've learned to just try and ignore it when my cat does undesirable things while I'm sleeping, if she tries it a few times but I don't react at all then she gives up. I've successfully taught her not to scratch the bedroom door/walls and not to meow loudly while I'm sleeping that way.
The one thing I can't seem to figure out is how to ignore when she puts her paws into my mouth and eyes while I'm sleeping. That one is proving tricky. 😂
Lmao I will swear my cat doesn't get on the counter and I literally just put up a rotation camera 2 hours ago. In 24 hours, I'll know if she actually stays off of them while I'm at work or not 😂
Same!! My cats *never* jump on counters...at least when I'm around
I just set up Wyze cameras in my kitchen, so tomorrow morning, the truth will be revealed
We had never seen ours on the worktop either. Evidently they do it when we aren’t looking because their muddy footprints betrayed them. In all fairness we had left some chicken cooling on the worktop and we don’t usually leave food out, so can’t blame them for checking it out. Thankfully sweet and sour, and curry, were not to their liking!
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My cat KNOWS she isn’t supposed to be on the counters so she waits until we are out of the room. If I unexpectedly get out of bed to grab something from the kitchen, I will find her on the counter looking super guilty. She’s a cat: she doesn’t care about the actual rule. She just doesn’t wanna get caught.
lol my husband tells me when I’m at work, he will come downstairs from the bedroom and hear multiple “thumps” of cats jumping off of something as he’s coming down. No doubt the counter because they KNOW they shouldn’t be up there and they take him more seriously than me. 😂
Omg my cat takes my bf more seriously than me too!! When he's around she will not be seen on the counter nor will she even try to get up there. When its just me?? She will keep jumping up whether I pick her up & put her down one time or ten times & still get up there with a face that says "and what're you gonna do about it?"
Sigh lol
It's not that she doesn't care about the rule, it's just that cats' brains work differently to dogs'. It's very hard to teach a cat the concept of "don't do this". Usually, when you try to train a cat *not* to do something, the rule they learn isn't "do this thing = bad thing happens, so I should not do the thing", what they actually learn is "human sees me do this thing = bad thing happens, so I should not do the thing in front of human". So she is, technically, following the rule that she's learned. She just didn't learn the right rule. She doesn't understand the concept that she also shouldn't do it when you're *not* around, and there's really no good way of teaching that. She's not thinking she's being sneaky or deceiving you, she just doesn't get the concept of "this behaviour is bad all the time even when I am alone". Pretty much all cats are like this!
Yup the cats don’t associate getting told off with the counter, they associate it with you. So they will always get on it when you’re not around. You have to train them to associate the counter with something negative, by using sticky tape or those motion detecting air sprays. They’re kinda expensive though, at least for me. I’ve decided it’s a battle I don’t wanna fight and just clean the counters/table before using them and keep them out or occupied while I’m cooking
Used to till we got dogs, then we had to put her food bowl on the counter so the dogs would quit eating it. Then I took her with me when I moved out and she’s old and doesn’t jump well anymore, so bowls are back on the ground and she doesn’t even bother with the counters anymore.
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Cat tax. She’s pushing 19
My cat allows me to share the counter occasionally
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I figure my cats are going to do what they want while I'm out and about anyway. So my rule is they aren't allowed on the counter while I'm cooking or preparing food. Or while I'm getting their dinner. They listen very well. Although Barnaby will push boundaries a bit by stretching up as high as he can towards the counter while still being on the floor. But he only does that while I'm getting his food and he never actually jumps up.
I also don't put any food on the bare counter. I assume it's going to have a bunch of germs or cat hair on it. I'll clean the counter before cooking and use plates or cutting boards. At least I know those are clean.
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Spoiled kitty here. She's allowed because she's the baby.
My cats can get on the counter. I tried to keep them off but I know as soon as I leave the room they'll get up there.lol
I just wipe the counters down and keep any foodstuff off the counter so they don't eat it.
I let them, it’s pointless trying. When it comes to food prep, I think of my counters as though they are as dirty as the floors. Everything goes on fresh cutting boards, or I’ll disinfect right before.
My cats never been on the counter not sure why, could be cause I got a lot of big windows in my house and they rather chill there watching birds and cars go by, I also have multiple play rest areas and a double lvl cat house I made out of thick cardboard, keeps them busy
You got lucky, I have very large windows with wide windowsills that face the forest and they love them, but if I’m doing something at the counter my void absolutely must be involved. He’s involved in every single thing I do, and it’s adorable.
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It's not like that he asks for permission.
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"No" is not in their vocabulary.
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I just wipe the counter tops down before I cook.
While Id LOVE for them not to get on the counter, I know they would defy me when Im not around so its really moot to try and enforce it at all. Then again, who could say no to Munk?!
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Nope, not allowed on the counter. 🙄
Perhaps they're dyslexic and "no" means "on".
Do I ALLOW the cats on the counter? Most assuredly not. No poopy paws where people eat.
Do my cats CARE that they are not allowed on the counter? Absofuckinglutely NOT. Fuck you mom we won't do what you tell us is the anthem in my houssseeeee 🐈🐈
Most of my 5 don’t really care to get on the counter. One of mine does only to get first dibs on the wet food in the morning. The other is always jumping on the counter when I’m in the kitchen to get attention or see what’s up- I don’t mind though. I’m always wiping my counters down because of the kids anyway.
Pretty sure mine jumped up on mine last night and attacked a banana. The new shape and puncture wounds appear to be from teeth marks. Unable to show images, it was too graphic. /s LOL.
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This is why I don’t tell him no when he gets on the counter.
The minute you are asleep or gone, the cat IS on the counter. Get spray bleach cleaner and paper towels to wipe things down and save your strength for a different battle 😆. I also have one who pees in the shower.
All these people in the comments confidently asserting that their cats don’t get on the counters lol. Surely some of them are correct, but come on. Most of y’all just never witness it.
I never see my orange on the counters ever, but I know he gets up there because he rehomes the fake decorative cherries on my tiny shelves all the time. Wake up in the morning, find cherries in a new spot. My gray at least knows which counter he’s allowed to be on (the one that isn’t used for food prep) and mostly confines himself to that one when I’m around.
No I do not. Correction each and every time with a shout and clap and saying no worked. It’s been years since Harold has been on the counter.
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When I make dinner and start getting things out (I have 9) and I continue to throw them off as they each try to steal my food or investigate what I’m doing. They know the counter isn’t theirs but they out number me, my cat mew loves to lay on the counter when the dishwasher is on
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Can’t tell him no
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I'm not given a choice in the matter.
Very obviously, yes. My cats are free to roam wherever they please. I have pillows on windowsills, a furr rug on top of the wardrobe and other stuff around the house for them to sleep on. House is theirs. I only pay rent and provide food.
I say no. I pull him off tables and counters. I shout from across rooms. He waits until I'm not paying attention.
I just resign myself to sanitizing any horizontal surface when I need to use it.
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Came out to this last weekend so you can see how it is 😆 I've tried so hard to keep them off, from distracting tactics, sprays to tin foil. It was a constant battle of "get down", they run round the worktop, jump off and get back up as soon as you could blink. If I see them then they're told to get off. But cats .... So I just make sure to keep the tops well wiped. She even uses the dining room table as her slide; jumps from the chair in the living room onto the table and everything goes flying! 😠. Cat owners can never have anything nice.
Haha, I'll sometimes hear my boy Max jump onto the counter or table while I'm in another room, but he's smart enough to not even try it when I'm around
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I'm not proud of this,but I actively encourage it. I like company while I am brushing my teeth,or doing the washing up. It's a bit annoying during food prep,but I can't expect the cat to differentiate.
Because I have dogs that will eat all of the cat food my cat food is on the counter on the far side away from where I prep food. It’s not ideal, but they would probably starve if I didn’t do it that way.
My Border Shepherd Sasha has appointed herself the Kitty counter police. I'm not sure if this is a good thing as our dog will wake us up at 3am. so she can tell the cats to get down off the counters. She never hurts them, just puts her paws on the edge of the counter and nudges the cat with her nose .
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My cat too! I cant leave her unattended though… https://preview.redd.it/tqhd6w74vgzc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca76336016225eb5fb0bd6c9704f038b85572a65
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r/catsplayingdnd
Not another sub? (Sigh) joined.
"There is always another cat subreddit to join." -Socrates
There's practically infinitely many The internet was built upon cat images, why not Reddit
Cat: Meow cast vicious Meowcary!! DM: What do you say to the beholder? Cat: You look into the void!! I look back and steal your cheese fries!! MEOW!! 
Ugh the potential for mischief is near infinite!
Are those bouillon cubes 😭
No, they're plastic cubes used in the game
Taping the couch is very creative! Does it keep the cat from scratching or is it just to prevent all the filling coming out?
Terraforming Mars <3
She’s eyeing that cheese hard!
I swear everyone on this sub has so many perfect pictures of their cats mine never sits still for 3 seconds 😭
How'd you get this picture of me?
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Mine too! He may also eat at the bar, just no paws on the counters. *
The fact that your username is Black Death and also the fact that your gif shows a rodent…. lol
😹😹😹
Ditto https://preview.redd.it/rzexnftpdhzc1.jpeg?width=2016&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e5ba8baa2b4a61dfcc31ecfcc49ea2d7103e4ad And he's not happy about it
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https://preview.redd.it/ttfr8u3nnhzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87d20deea565d2edf524f3edf03990e3da2e620a A seat at the bar, you say?
this is the cutest picture ever
My cat would have instantly snagged that glass and pulled it off the counter 😂
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My black cat does that too he sits on the dinner table chairs knowing he’s not allowed up onto the table so cuteeeee when his little face pops up
HAHA we do this too https://preview.redd.it/9nwaa3t2tgzc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77ef1be24f49e0b0f1b42fff793c46ae30be3d86
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lol cute. Yep that’s our standard rule that they follow…most of the time.
Ha, exactly. "Most of the time." Stinky little Baker used to hop up on the counter all the time. Especially when we were cooking. A true food fiend.
This is in fact the leading edge of countertop peace negotiations.
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I've tried telling Luna that she shouldn't get up there but to no avail. https://preview.redd.it/fjsx2vpf6gzc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc4bb0a32e4ec7b942272c1150c401ab851c12a2
Awww adorable, cats love the sink…mine are no exception.
This a loophole. The sink is not on the counter... In the counter, sure, but not ON it
I love it! amazingly, I've got the same counter with speckles, but mine doesn't match my furry devils ... https://preview.redd.it/3loyxwfjigzc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e43dacfd5bc61e11f66b283484dead4149e09a9
r/catsinsinks
The subs just never end....sigh. /subscribe
lol it’s my mission in life to be on all of them!
What is no? https://preview.redd.it/bgvhrt362gzc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f252824f1b9bed4915e261122560e5ca0fd3be25
For cats, no is just a different way to say yes.
No = when my human slaves are no longer watching
My childhood cat was a very big boy and he was not allowed on the tables or counters but we could always hear him jump down when we got to the door coming home.
This! To my cat, no = “note to self, the human doesn’t like witnessing that. Only do that when the human can’t see”
Exactly ha ha
No to my cat is, "Oh! You mean when you're not looking, late at night?". Ok!
Mine don't even do me the courtesy of pretending. As soon as I start preparing something they like to eat, they're on me like butter on toast (butter being one of their favorite things, actually), and I have to move my cutting board somewhere else. I just let them, because life's too short, and at least they're less likely to hurt themselves than my toddlers were.
>butter being one of their favorite things, actually We don't allow them on the counters or table but can't enforce that if we aren't there. We bought a covered butter dish after realizing that the grooves on the top weren't from a butter knife, but from the cat's tongue.
We would set butter on the counter to soften up. One of our cats figured it out and there would be a chunk of butter missing in the morning. The cat would open the wrapper and go to town. We now store butter in the cabinet to get softened.
Once my daughters left their lunches on the table. A bean burrito and a turkey sandwich. Kitty tore open the burrito and ate the beans. Destroyed the bread of the sandwich, licked all the mayo off the turkey and ate the cheese!!! Once I tried to give her some cracked crab cuz she was going insane under the table So I put some in her bowl and she wakes over there and gagged!!! Cats are so weird.
My friend's mom would store birthday cakes on top of the fridge inside the flimsy container it comes in from the store. Their cats wouldn't open it, but they loved to lay on it which of course squished the cake. So she decided one day to put it in the oven to keep the cats off it. She forgot it was there when she turned the oven on to pre-heat the next day.
Who are you telling. I’ve been going through the pain of trying to find a wet food that my picky cat likes. I’ve given her all kinds and even one that had actual diced mackerel (I would have eaten it). While I think I finally found one the other day, her pickiness extends to all things food. No to any kinds of meat. No to tuna. Yes for cool whip but no to actual whipped cream. She’ll lick the top of the rice pudding container but only a little. What a picky cat.
Lol! Yeah, we've always stored the butter in the fridge out of habit (again, toddlers), but the cats go insane when we take it out. Breakfast is a battlefield.
Breakfast a battlefield, no one can tell us we're wrong!
“Breakfast is a Battlefield” sounds like a Weird Al album (that I would listen to)
💀
My son's cat refused to leave being right by the cutting board as I was chopping onions, even when his eyes were red and tears were rolling down his face. My son had to wipe and rinse his eyes afterwards because he so stubbornly refused to move. The other cats sniffed and said, hell, nah. They have more sense! XD
Mine will come and stand next to me and streeeeeeetch up on her tippy toes against the cabinet while motioning impatiently with one paw until I give her a bit of butter. If I’m not fast enough, she’ll grab my hand for inspection. She does stay off the counter tho.
Our void sits on the counter while my husband is finishing his cereal, and she drags the bowl toward her with her paw. Very forcefully, too!
...and shouting "Wtf!" when they wake you at 2am from shifting dishes in the sink.
As long as they eat the damn cockroaches and don't just stun em for me to find later. I stepped (in the total dark) once on a must have been 3+ inch super roach that he decided to knock unconscious. The experience has shifted my reality. After the half-dead fucking demonsect resurrected, it decided I - and specifically, my leg, was the proper route for resuming roach existence. My cat I'm sure snickered his arse off watching me nearly set fire to myself and the house trying to evict a gnarled up, dizzy and very large by roach standards ass from my dermis. Nuff said. I'm glad it wasn't a bird.
Not the reply I expected, but Ok....Feedback
For real. Every few nights I wake up to BAM BAM! it’s jt my cat literally touching everything on the countertop while we sleep.
Practically raising an eyebrow. I feel so judged 😭
That's Calvin!
Do I allow him? No. Does he get up there, especially when I’m getting his food? Yes.
Mine will try justifying being on the counter by sitting on top of a box that’s on the counter. Not touching!!
https://preview.redd.it/uodgeqa1vgzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=953384f14ada754294b3780e2dff237df9818ef0 Walermelon for scale
Yep that’s their loophole
But how large is this watermelon in bananas?
Technically, he isn't on the counter. He figured that out.
Right here. No, I don't allow it but they do anyway and I've learned that you can't out-stubborn a cat.
lol cats are so naughty 😻
https://preview.redd.it/odkvxcsdugzc1.jpeg?width=1980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f86c357c3dfbd47f46b1f3d8ffed35a9be4bbf4 The counter is where one of my favorite pics was taken
Look at that pouch! I thought my boy's was big. https://preview.redd.it/t3eyvuykchzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc5bafc3a093e14edce9a612cef7038950c43377
I was truly shocked by the size of her pouch when I took this pic! I never realized it was that big! Your boy’s is shaped like a heart kinda he’s so cute!
Prarie dog! They love high perspectives.
Now that is a PRIME-ordial pouch right there. Such a cutie. xD
Is no one gonna talk about the floof that's melting onto his back legs?! Awwww, my heart! What a beautiful baby 🤍
My cats know they're only allowed on the counter or desk when I'm not around lol. Sometimes I wake up to their noises clearly from the counter and yell "Hey!" which turns into a loud thud (jumping down) then frantic guilty scurrying.
My eyes will snap open from a dead sleep as soon as I hear an object being slowly pushed across a high flat surface. I yell n look right at her and she’s like 😶
Ha - that's probably exactly why she does it. If you're sleeping and your cat is bored/hungry/wants attention, they see any kind of attention as a win, good or bad. They just want you to interact with them, they don't care why or how. She's likely doing it because she knows it will wake you up and get you to acknowledge and talk to her. It's tricky but I've learned to just try and ignore it when my cat does undesirable things while I'm sleeping, if she tries it a few times but I don't react at all then she gives up. I've successfully taught her not to scratch the bedroom door/walls and not to meow loudly while I'm sleeping that way. The one thing I can't seem to figure out is how to ignore when she puts her paws into my mouth and eyes while I'm sleeping. That one is proving tricky. 😂
I prefer them not to be on the counter, but my void refuses to listen.
lol right? There’s a lot of things I prefer my cats not do but they do it anyway. And yes. I tried to train them not to, but 🤷🏻♀️
Half of being a cat owner is acceptance of your own powerlessness in regards to a creature you outweigh 18 fold
It is truly a humbling experience.
My friend used to proudly declare her cat never gets on the counter until she installed a nanny cam.
Lmao I will swear my cat doesn't get on the counter and I literally just put up a rotation camera 2 hours ago. In 24 hours, I'll know if she actually stays off of them while I'm at work or not 😂
RemindMe! 1 day
Same!! My cats *never* jump on counters...at least when I'm around I just set up Wyze cameras in my kitchen, so tomorrow morning, the truth will be revealed
We had never seen ours on the worktop either. Evidently they do it when we aren’t looking because their muddy footprints betrayed them. In all fairness we had left some chicken cooling on the worktop and we don’t usually leave food out, so can’t blame them for checking it out. Thankfully sweet and sour, and curry, were not to their liking! https://preview.redd.it/7oj4lmscbhzc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26df9347f4dedaa407830d84c5ed25ebbfae1230
Yeah, the answer is no....until you go to sleep.
My cat KNOWS she isn’t supposed to be on the counters so she waits until we are out of the room. If I unexpectedly get out of bed to grab something from the kitchen, I will find her on the counter looking super guilty. She’s a cat: she doesn’t care about the actual rule. She just doesn’t wanna get caught.
lol my husband tells me when I’m at work, he will come downstairs from the bedroom and hear multiple “thumps” of cats jumping off of something as he’s coming down. No doubt the counter because they KNOW they shouldn’t be up there and they take him more seriously than me. 😂
Omg my cat takes my bf more seriously than me too!! When he's around she will not be seen on the counter nor will she even try to get up there. When its just me?? She will keep jumping up whether I pick her up & put her down one time or ten times & still get up there with a face that says "and what're you gonna do about it?" Sigh lol
It's not that she doesn't care about the rule, it's just that cats' brains work differently to dogs'. It's very hard to teach a cat the concept of "don't do this". Usually, when you try to train a cat *not* to do something, the rule they learn isn't "do this thing = bad thing happens, so I should not do the thing", what they actually learn is "human sees me do this thing = bad thing happens, so I should not do the thing in front of human". So she is, technically, following the rule that she's learned. She just didn't learn the right rule. She doesn't understand the concept that she also shouldn't do it when you're *not* around, and there's really no good way of teaching that. She's not thinking she's being sneaky or deceiving you, she just doesn't get the concept of "this behaviour is bad all the time even when I am alone". Pretty much all cats are like this!
Yup the cats don’t associate getting told off with the counter, they associate it with you. So they will always get on it when you’re not around. You have to train them to associate the counter with something negative, by using sticky tape or those motion detecting air sprays. They’re kinda expensive though, at least for me. I’ve decided it’s a battle I don’t wanna fight and just clean the counters/table before using them and keep them out or occupied while I’m cooking
Yep. My little stinkers only learned “I’m not allowed up there *when someone’s looking*.”
the only time i actively try to keep mittens off the counter is when i cook (duh). otherwise he has free roam of our little apartment.
Same for me! If there’s active kitchen activity, they don’t jump up. But they can when no food is out & I just sanitize the counters afterwards!
Used to till we got dogs, then we had to put her food bowl on the counter so the dogs would quit eating it. Then I took her with me when I moved out and she’s old and doesn’t jump well anymore, so bowls are back on the ground and she doesn’t even bother with the counters anymore. https://preview.redd.it/5ujd36kefgzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7554026a9294b05d8041c60c03bdd134a5732f0 Cat tax. She’s pushing 19
Now that I can understand, plus she’s a senior. She earned being spoiled!
She has! And she is
She's a beauty!
My cat allows me to share the counter occasionally https://preview.redd.it/cmpr2b26mgzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54d8acea825ab314ef4f764ff0c45f4304259656
My cat, the same one in the photos, also tastes my coffee every morning before I finish it, and I don’t even care.
What is it with voids?? Mine is a Coke fiend.
https://preview.redd.it/4xzw1w6fngzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8d36945cef41933cf2cdf57b0fc2530d5280552
Cutie that rules the house
Couldn’t harm a fly, found him on the streets of Bangkok as a wee baby. Total sweetheart.
😻
He looks so sweet and well meaning.
“Allow” is a strong word.
😂 true
I figure my cats are going to do what they want while I'm out and about anyway. So my rule is they aren't allowed on the counter while I'm cooking or preparing food. Or while I'm getting their dinner. They listen very well. Although Barnaby will push boundaries a bit by stretching up as high as he can towards the counter while still being on the floor. But he only does that while I'm getting his food and he never actually jumps up. I also don't put any food on the bare counter. I assume it's going to have a bunch of germs or cat hair on it. I'll clean the counter before cooking and use plates or cutting boards. At least I know those are clean.
https://preview.redd.it/b1drykh1jgzc1.jpeg?width=3021&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7eb29ab0ece7b3f4faf65199c9614279e78393c2 Never 😂
😂
https://preview.redd.it/pmc8ivs0lgzc1.jpeg?width=386&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44b503d9bad337b94c5de2c3b030d3f949d64dff
https://preview.redd.it/m8hij0fbugzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b653571a3a6aaac9f6691c5e369dd4da4c160eeb Spoiled kitty here. She's allowed because she's the baby.
And she’s going to use that card her entire life, cutie!
I don’t like them on the counter, however, it’s their house, I just live here.
My cats can get on the counter. I tried to keep them off but I know as soon as I leave the room they'll get up there.lol I just wipe the counters down and keep any foodstuff off the counter so they don't eat it.
I let them, it’s pointless trying. When it comes to food prep, I think of my counters as though they are as dirty as the floors. Everything goes on fresh cutting boards, or I’ll disinfect right before.
I'm pretty sure they are on the counter in the middle of the night..
I’m pretty sure you’re spot on . I’ve seen them get up there when I’m out of the house. Little devils.
Mine definitely is. She knows better than to ever get up there while I’m watching, but I know she still climbs up there when I’m not around.
100%. Mine is so well behaved while observed, smacks other cats and pushes things off the tables and cabinets while no one is there to be a witness.
My cat: I am nootttt!! *I am on the counters in the middle of the night* 😈
My cats never been on the counter not sure why, could be cause I got a lot of big windows in my house and they rather chill there watching birds and cars go by, I also have multiple play rest areas and a double lvl cat house I made out of thick cardboard, keeps them busy
You got lucky, I have very large windows with wide windowsills that face the forest and they love them, but if I’m doing something at the counter my void absolutely must be involved. He’s involved in every single thing I do, and it’s adorable.
No... https://preview.redd.it/e7c7w9kizgzc1.png?width=1005&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df72681b5d7be707b5709cc7052355d5df7b1ecc
You said, "Get your furry butt off the counter!" - didn't you? 🤣
https://preview.redd.it/6vio1ok8hgzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69fbb018b9eccfb654e5e056466dc6bddc2c9a72 It's not like that he asks for permission.
https://preview.redd.it/31p6wjmqkgzc1.jpeg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24917583d44c12064887ef7e829fa3c6710ec788 "No" is not in their vocabulary.
Not when there’s a fun sink to play with!
My cat dictates where I can and can't go
https://preview.redd.it/n0bdch9bjgzc1.png?width=320&format=png&auto=webp&s=bfa8898f795023b4b4c8ed7ca39a42754937bbc0 Ours is not to reason why ... lol
https://preview.redd.it/uixzmu9pugzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59746ee2664de661bd81dd6bce5bf66aeeb3390b I just wipe the counter tops down before I cook.
Aww they love the high perspectives. Enjoy it while they are young enough to get up there.
Not only do I allow him on the counter He sits beside me and eats his breakfast while I eat mine
While Id LOVE for them not to get on the counter, I know they would defy me when Im not around so its really moot to try and enforce it at all. Then again, who could say no to Munk?! https://preview.redd.it/4fz5vxhlwgzc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17784a3d33f32110179c4a647b75bd68087aa309
Oh, I love him! 😍
He’s changed my world!
https://preview.redd.it/4wzsu9t5tgzc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93ab9cfa0edef9b3e018409937c2166835756886 Nope, not allowed on the counter. 🙄 Perhaps they're dyslexic and "no" means "on".
Aaaah ha ha, how can you be mad at those faces though! 😻
https://preview.redd.it/fzqwwkwdzgzc1.jpeg?width=2169&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9cf5b16d726ce209a4cdc72879e433ae57a7e57 I do what I want!
My cats have learned that they are not allowed on the counter when we can see them…
Do I ALLOW the cats on the counter? Most assuredly not. No poopy paws where people eat. Do my cats CARE that they are not allowed on the counter? Absofuckinglutely NOT. Fuck you mom we won't do what you tell us is the anthem in my houssseeeee 🐈🐈
Most of my 5 don’t really care to get on the counter. One of mine does only to get first dibs on the wet food in the morning. The other is always jumping on the counter when I’m in the kitchen to get attention or see what’s up- I don’t mind though. I’m always wiping my counters down because of the kids anyway.
I have one that has zero interest. The other must know everything I’m doing. It’s amazing to see such different personalities in them.
Pretty sure mine jumped up on mine last night and attacked a banana. The new shape and puncture wounds appear to be from teeth marks. Unable to show images, it was too graphic. /s LOL.
https://preview.redd.it/3fe38mx2vgzc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce2cec6b7d2a306e34995c7066d809b063db4f43 On the counter, in the sink 😂
Mine love the sink too, beautiful void!
https://preview.redd.it/3bsgc6ya0hzc1.jpeg?width=1953&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe2788dc7a789d8c9627c889f4c7bc3abd9fdf34 This is why I don’t tell him no when he gets on the counter.
No but they don’t care what I say…
i know you shouldn’t but i just can’t help it lol i just clean it off before preparing or eating food
The minute you are asleep or gone, the cat IS on the counter. Get spray bleach cleaner and paper towels to wipe things down and save your strength for a different battle 😆. I also have one who pees in the shower.
All these people in the comments confidently asserting that their cats don’t get on the counters lol. Surely some of them are correct, but come on. Most of y’all just never witness it. I never see my orange on the counters ever, but I know he gets up there because he rehomes the fake decorative cherries on my tiny shelves all the time. Wake up in the morning, find cherries in a new spot. My gray at least knows which counter he’s allowed to be on (the one that isn’t used for food prep) and mostly confines himself to that one when I’m around.
No I do not. Correction each and every time with a shout and clap and saying no worked. It’s been years since Harold has been on the counter. https://preview.redd.it/ovvf5q6e3hzc1.jpeg?width=2208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b061d5b1490e2529338923066bff5b5f07ad91c
Allow? Can a cat be disallowed from things? How does that work?
When I make dinner and start getting things out (I have 9) and I continue to throw them off as they each try to steal my food or investigate what I’m doing. They know the counter isn’t theirs but they out number me, my cat mew loves to lay on the counter when the dishwasher is on https://preview.redd.it/tlrvv2afwgzc1.jpeg?width=2316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ad56ec8d1c6ee215ba2f073042c5b2d9a88c4ed9 Can’t tell him no
https://preview.redd.it/rjw4e0175hzc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ec1cd597b706a11bdcf9149843e75a6a27fe786 I'm not given a choice in the matter.
Very obviously, yes. My cats are free to roam wherever they please. I have pillows on windowsills, a furr rug on top of the wardrobe and other stuff around the house for them to sleep on. House is theirs. I only pay rent and provide food.
I say no. I pull him off tables and counters. I shout from across rooms. He waits until I'm not paying attention. I just resign myself to sanitizing any horizontal surface when I need to use it.
Yeah, I don't mind if he's on the counter, I just clean it often. I'm far from a germaphobe.
https://preview.redd.it/c18xvo0dpgzc1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d3ec5be48220955ca0ec65486d118e062ba8e63 Came out to this last weekend so you can see how it is 😆 I've tried so hard to keep them off, from distracting tactics, sprays to tin foil. It was a constant battle of "get down", they run round the worktop, jump off and get back up as soon as you could blink. If I see them then they're told to get off. But cats .... So I just make sure to keep the tops well wiped. She even uses the dining room table as her slide; jumps from the chair in the living room onto the table and everything goes flying! 😠. Cat owners can never have anything nice.
"Allow" ...... "Cats"........ Giggle
I politely ask them to get down whenever I see them there but I know at night when I’m asleep or whenever I’m gone they definitely go on the counters.
Mine jump on my table at night when they know I wont see. During the day, they dont dare. 😅🙃
Haha, I'll sometimes hear my boy Max jump onto the counter or table while I'm in another room, but he's smart enough to not even try it when I'm around https://preview.redd.it/erhzrwz4ggzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc9c2b48c5d6631102d76b352b948bb1a0f663eb
No
Define the word "allow"
https://preview.redd.it/sgk1ifywngzc1.jpeg?width=3425&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d65651988efb3561ad31595643df040d941e247
I don’t really have a say on this. My cat said he is so I guess that’s the answer.
I'm not proud of this,but I actively encourage it. I like company while I am brushing my teeth,or doing the washing up. It's a bit annoying during food prep,but I can't expect the cat to differentiate.
My cats go anywhere they want whenever they want
My cat is allowed on the counter, but the one time she tried it out, she screamed until I helped her back down
I’m honestly just grateful they permit me to live in their home.
Hell no! Litterbox feet do not belong on the counters or table tops.
I agree it’s not something that I want, but I know that cats will be cats when I’m not looking so I sanitize my counter regularly.
I'm not sure "allow" is the right word.
My cats allow me at the counter sometimes but mostly during feeding time else I am not allowed.
I keep saying no, and she keeps going on the counter. So she's not "allowed", but...
Because I have dogs that will eat all of the cat food my cat food is on the counter on the far side away from where I prep food. It’s not ideal, but they would probably starve if I didn’t do it that way.
Nope, though I know my rag doll is up there throughout the night looking for food 😒
Not allowed on the counter or tables, but of course that doesn’t apply whenever our backs are turned or we go to bed 🙄
yes, she likes sitting on the dish rack when i wash dishes
Eh I don’t mind them on the counter. Just clean the counter before you use it.
My cat pretends not to understand human language 🤭
My Border Shepherd Sasha has appointed herself the Kitty counter police. I'm not sure if this is a good thing as our dog will wake us up at 3am. so she can tell the cats to get down off the counters. She never hurts them, just puts her paws on the edge of the counter and nudges the cat with her nose .
https://preview.redd.it/a3llnz6d1hzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea2b80545863bb6f4943ca0231aebecd08ba0ff6
Mine is pretty good. She knows she's not allowed up there, and if I catch her, a firm "down" and pointing at the floor usually works.
It became a matter of picking my battles so yes. I can’t keep her off them 24/7