Posted by Jeanne on April 6, 2009
It is simply not safe for your curious little cat to be jumping up on counters and tables while in the kitchen. Not to mention that it is entirely unsanitary as well for them to go from doing their duty in their litter box
and then walking around on the counters that you prepare your food on. In all, it is not a good idea for you or your cat. You really don’t want your cat to become accustomed to jumping up in the kitchen because eventually they are going to jump up onto a hot stove and seriously injure themselves.
There are different ways you can go about training your cat that the kitchen is an off-limits area for jumping and exploring. The first method is to simply pick them up whenever they jump onto a kitchen counter top or table and tell them “No!” in a firm voice and then put them back onto the floor. Another idea is to stack items that will make a loud noise near the edge of the counter so they will fall down and frighten your cat when he jumps up.
If neither of these ideas work, you can always resort to using the spray bottle of water. Try these ideas first before you resort to more drastic means. Just remember that you are looking out for both the safety and health of your cat as well as yourself.
Posted by Jeanne on March 30, 2009
Cats love to climb and explore. If you have curtains in your home when you get a cat, you are just asking for disaster. This would definitely be a good time to consider switching to blinds. If you don’t want to redecorate your house, there are a few ways that you can make things a little safer for your cat. If your cat has a habit of climbing up the curtains, you might look into a rod that will fall when pressure is put on it. A few times of the curtains falling down might just scare your cat out of climbing them in the first place.
Also, you want to make sure that if you have a cord on your curtains that your cat cannot end up choking themselves on it. If the cord is in a loop, you will need to cut it so that your cat doesn’t get stuck and end up hanging himself. Hopefully, you can get your cat out of the habit of climbing your curtains before he ends up ruining them altogether