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How to Keep Your Cat off Tables and Counters
By: Alfred & Miss Patches Marie Kitty
One of the first and most obvious ways to keep your cat off
of your tables and counters is by not leaving food up there
for your cat to want and try to get. A cat is designed to
take advantage of every food opportunity and it will do as
it pleases more often than not. This is especially true if
your cat loves to climb or if you leave tuna fish on the
counter and so tempt your cat.
In order to curb your cats' climbing and jumping up on
counter tops and tables you will have to first understand
why they are doing it. Do you leave food on the counter that
your cats are always trying to get? If so, make a habit of
putting the food away when you are done with it.
Do you have plants on your table or countertop? If so,
hopefully you have checked to make sure that they are
nontoxic for cats. Check your plant for tooth marks and get
some "cat grass" to satisfy your cats' nutritional need for
veggies. They have a lot of cat grass and if you keep it by
their food they will most likely eat it instead of the
plants on your table and countertop. Make an effort to be
sure that the plants that are inside your house are non-
toxic to cats or this can be a great deal more serious.
Is your cat doing it simply because it wants to explore and
climb? Some cats just love to climb. If this is true of your
cat, then getting a cat tree would be your best option for
trying to curtail the countertop excursions. Rub the cat
tree with some catnip and your cat will probably just go
crazy over it.
Whatever the reason your cat is climbing, be sure that you
leave nothing toxic on those countertops or tables for your
kitty to step in or eat. This is very dangerous, sprays and
polishes can easily poison your cat since cats regularly
uses their paws to lick and clean themselves. Even fairly
nontoxic items can make them very sick.
Cats will do as they please unless they are taught
differently. You might try getting a toy water squirt gun
and filling it with water and then every time your cat jumps
on the table or countertop squirt it with the water from out
of the cat's eyesight. This way the cat will begin to
associate the table top and counter top with something it
dislikes. Or get some of our
Cat Training Aids.
If none of these methods work, you will have to either
resign yourself or get a new cat. A cat will only do as they
please, so you will have to find a way to make the cat want
to do the behavior you choose for it. It's great if you can
find a better solution for yourself and your cat, but this
doesn't always work. Be prepared to put up with your cat
jumping up on your surfaces. Never shout or punish your cat,
it won't understand you and will eventually grow to dislike
you or be frightened of you, and will still not stop the
action you are displeased about.
I'm A Good Kitty
By: Alfred
Hi, I'm one of your furry feline friends on the Net. I'm a big, almost all
black American Shorthair, with just a small patch of white under my chin.
I'm a good kitty too!
My favorite things to do are:
Sleep
Nap
Eat
Play with my toys
Sleep
Nap
Eat
Bother my human friends
Keep unwanted visitors like mice from the barnyard.
Actually, I've got life kicked.
Who else do you know that can sleep up to 2/3's of the day, get up and eat,
then play for awhile, then go take a nap and get away with it?
I also go outside and make all
these cat noises and prowl around...I do this to make my human friends think
I'm really needed and important around here.
My human friends are pretty cool guys. They brush me
whenever I want and keep my litter box clean, and most importantly, feed me a
really Delicious and scrumptious tasting food.
And...they give me lots of great treats. Yum Yummy Yum!!!
And hey, I deserve it. I keep the whole farm running in good shape and the
house from being infested with mice.
Course, sometimes I have to show that dog...Tippy...who's really boss, but
that's okay. Tippy is pretty neat for a dog.
Don't let anyone fool you, I'm the
King around here.
Dave & Tippy know it and I get away with whatever I want. I
sleep where I want and when I want and make Dave buy me the highest quality
food he can find.
You wanna know why?
It's really simple. I have a good friend, Dr. Jane Bicks. She's a really
swell person and just loves cats!
Anyway Dr. Jane told Dave that in
order for me to look and feel my best and to live the longest life possible, I
need a really good quality food. A food that has meat proteins in it... not
corn.
Now just think about that for one minute.
Did you ever see a cat go out and bring back to the house an ear of corn?
What do they bring back?
Mice, chipmunks, rodents.....all meat.
Get that?
Cats are carnivores. Cats need meat proteins.
Something Dr. Jane told Dave was that us felines cannot manufacture
proteins in our livers like humans and dogs can.
We need, daily....meat proteins in
our diet. That's why all those kitties on corn based foods are spending a lot
of time at the vets for health related problems.
Not me!
Dave buys me Life's Abundance Cat food and the Daily Supplement. (correct
that...Daily treat) It's because the Life's Abundance food is meat based and
provides me with the proteins I need to live the longest and healthiest life
possible.
And the Daily Supplement gives me those extra vitamins and minerals that I
need. (Dr. Jane says the Daily Supplement is really important....but I love
the taste so much...I call them treats!)
I sure do look and feel good...and have a shiny coat that glistens in the
sunlight. And I never go to the vets for health related issues.
=>> From one feline to another, I really want you to experience this
delightfully Purr-fect dining ecstasy in your next food bowl.
Get your human friend to Go here and get you on the Life's Abundance Daily
Nutritional System:
Check out Alfred's
Favorite Feline Dining Experience Here
You will be purring all the way to the feed bowl.
