How to Train a Cat : How to Keep Cats Off of Tabletops

[chrystabelle42]

you can get this on foster and smith webpage its an achule thing achuley made for cats

[queezy420]

she keeps her cats down by spraying lemon air freshener at them?? animal abuse anyone?

[hs1o5]

it dosent spray it one them cats do not like the smell of citrus ;)

[phantomlassuk]

Do you actually like cats????!!!!!!!!

[AL94RUSS]

nice

[MyLifeAsNemo]

I don't quite understand the subtitle "Tips for Keeping Cats on the Ground". Cats like to stay high so they can observe what's going on around them. That's why you often see outdoor cats up on the roof. If you don't want your cats to be on the counter top or tables, provide them somewhere they ARE allowed to jump onto: a cat tree, a windowsill, or a bookshelf. Unless there's food on the counter top, they WILL choose to go to those high places that you provide for them.

[Metqa]

My cat responds better to a hiss, "sss" than to hand claps and yelling. The hiss stops her in her track. and it she starts in the same direction, I hiss again, until she realizes that what she is trying to do is unapproved. Cats do it and it works. Fortunately aversives worked all too well when my cat jumped on the counter and my metal pans fell with a clatter. Hilarious. Never since.

[Metqa]

this has nothing to do with training a cat. This was just a product endorsement for an aversive device.She might as well said to put jellyroll pans filled with water over all the counters. Which would work just as well. With this product, the cat still learns that if it can get up on and back off of the counter quick enough it can get whatever it was after and still avoid the aversive spray. You haven't reduced the desire to get on the counter, just trained a different method of retreat.

[MichelleCee7823]

can i still tell my older cat to stop going on the counter? shes like 1 year old and she had kittens now she wont let me bother her very much no more too..

[gin5354]

I agree to an extent to aversion training. I've found a squirt gun is best. Harmless, non-agressive and the cat doesn't like it. The key is to squirt the cat from behind so he doesn't know where it came from. He must not know YOU did it. He associates this unwanted reaction with "scatching this chair" or "jumping on this counter" and will simply stop 'cause he doesn't want it repeated. An unpleasant event NOT associated with you--well, they never forget it.

[gretchenman]

DER-TA-DER!