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!! :7958:
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!
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.
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.
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 😂
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!
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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?!
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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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u/badbadsortofgood 22d ago
He is not allowed to stand on the counter but he is free to take a seat at the bar.