Funny Fatigued Feline Pawrents Offer Their Hissterically Comedic Counsel On How To Keep Your Cheeky Cats Off The Kitchen Counter

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Jan 23, 2024 1:00 PM EST

When you adopt a cat, you should be ready to sacrifice a few important things, for example, any concept of purrsonal space, going to the bathroom alone, and essentially the deed to your house. One of the smaller things you may have to give up is having a cat-free kitchen counter, as cats pawsitively love seeing what you're up to at every second of the day, especially when you're in a place where food is involved! No one likes to clean up paw prints before you cook every day, so one Redditor took to the interwebz and asked their fellow feline fanatics if they had any tips and tricks. Spoiler alert, they didn't!

What they did have, however, were some absolutely hissterical comedic counsel on how to accept the fact that once you have a counter cat, you have to live with one. These cheeky cats run the house, and the sooner you accept that the happier your life will be. Scroll down to soak up all this hilarity below, and clean your counters before every use!

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    Is there actually a way to keep these off my counter or do I just need to work on acceptance
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    Oof, these two look like serious troublemakers! Those are some daftly defiant counter cats if we ever saw some. Good luck convincing those to do anything they don't want to do. You can try with a clicker, with treats, with long, disapproving stares, but we're pretty sure you're fighting a losing battle.

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    PurpleStar 1965 - 15 hr. ago ZACH Zigzag and I have reached a truce. He is allowed on the outside of the breakfast bar but not on the kitchen side where we prepare human food. Which works 80% of the time. Here is a pic of him defying the truce. Reply Share 4.0k
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    The best part about this comment is the end where they reveal that in this pic their cat is actually defying the truce. That cold stare of disapproval - this cat doesn't give one hoot about your countertop rules and they're letting you know it.

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    Twilighttail 12 hr. ago. edited 4 hr. ago Ditto for my boy Fizz. If I saw him on the counter, I'd call him out. If he was close enough to the fridge, he'd make a mad dash to climb it before I grabbed him. If he made it, he was safe, but if I caught him he wouldn't try again for at least another 20min. He knew his spots, and I'd only allow his front paws on the counter while his back paws were on a chair because that's what gentleman-kitties do.
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    Fifi LeBean 16 hr. ago I thought that my cats were not on the counter because I didn't allow cats on the counter. It turned out that after years of having cats, I had just never had a counter cat yet. Then I got a counter cat and I realized that you can't stop a counter cat. 7.3k Reply Share
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    Depressedloser2846 14 hr. ago you could say you can't counter the counter cat
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    VanillaSundaze 14 hr. ago . I really think this is true! At least it was for me. I have had several cats over my lifetime, and none really liked to jump on the counters too much. Then I recently got a male kitten, with a lot of energy- right away he was jumping up on my kitchen counters. We then got another kitten about a month later, and she saw him doing it and she started doing it - I guess that is where the term copycat comes from! I have tried a few things without success, and finally decid
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    Grouchy_Resource_159 15 hr. ago I had success with: 1. simply picking up and removing, whilst sighing deeply and avoiding eye contact/ interaction. 2. Putting a tall cat tree in the corner (long, thin, kitchen) where they could see what was happening on the counter, without being on the counter. Then using clicker training to teach them to sit on it whilst I cooked.
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    pashaaaa 14 hr. ago "sighing deeply" is so funny to me. I'm going to adopt that
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    Old_Cryptographer502 · 13 hr. ago Some people say tinfoil keeps them off. It does not. This was a pan of brownies.
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    Kimmera1 14 hr. ago So, she's Like "GET OFF THE COUNTER!" and I'm Like "GET OFF MY
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    OnlyWatrInThe Forest 14 hr. ago There are two instances of cats on the counters, when you are there and when you are not there. Step one: If you are there, remove cat. Tell cat firmly "no" and remove. After a while they will learn that they are not allowed to be on the counters if you can see them. Step two: always assume the cat has been on the counter and clean it before using.
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    pharmcirl 12 hr. ago This, I've always said the people who say they don't allow their cats on the counters, are just the ones whose cats know to stay off the counter when they're looking Just clean your food prep spaces, everyone really should do that anyway especially if you're using the countertop as a direct food prep surface. Think about the kind of nasty that ends up on the bottom your reusable grocery bags, or purse, or keys, or any other things people have no qualms about setting on their
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    Elgar76 16 hr. ago When you're away the cats will play. Video will expose their nefarious wandering or not.
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    bucebeak 14 hr. ago . Kind of like this. Technically Ravi is not "all" on the table.
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    monstersandcoffee 16 hr. ago Yeah, so actually those counters are theirs.
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    Old Intention1288 - 12 hr. ago British Shorthair Can confirm, the trick is that they make you think you own the place when in reality, their names are on the title deed
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    SnooGiraffes2532 15 hr. ago . My tuxedo is a distinguished gentleman by day, and a vicious greeble killer by night. He wouldn't dare get up on the counters or scratch the furniture while someone is awake, but when we all go to sleep the kitten in him comes out and I find water bottles on the floor, my living room rug half way across the floor and he's resting peacefully on the new furniture like a darling little baby that could never do any wrong. (He's right, he couldn't lol)
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    Sweet Potato781 16 hr. ago Yes, using a stern voice, tell them to get down. Give them a gentle nudge if need be. Eventually they will stop when you're around. When you're not around though who knows?
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    ProofParsnip28. 16 hr. ago This is what I did. I also picked them up gently every time I said no, and set them where they were allowed. (Basically anywhere else.) Many months later, they never get on the counter when I'm around, and I don't find evidence of them having been there when I'm not. That's good enough for me.
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    MegaDom 14 hr. ago I like to hold my cats accountable when they do stuff like this. Meaning I pick them up and hold them in my arms like a baby while kissing their head and telling them to please not do that.
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    arealpandabear - 12 hr. ago American Shorthair This is my little counter but using the water I poured for myself to drink as his personal bath water. not only on the
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    Golf_8v 13 hr. ago I had never seen mine on the counter, but I had seen little paw prints on the glass electric hob... until one morning this happened!
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    Sea-Claim-8811 - 13 hr. ago Negative enforcement will not work, however putting them down each time and then giving them treats when they are near/in the kitchen but not on the counters will let them associate the floor with getting treats, not the counters. I had two boys who were awful about it when I first got them, but I corrected them and have taught them treats are given to all our cats in the kitchen on the floor. I'd say they stay off it 95% of the time when I'm home, when I'm gone I've
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    ASkywalker13 - 14 hr. ago Resistance is futile
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    LetsGoBubba6141 16 hr. ago. edited 13 hr. ago Work on acceptance. My life is better accepting that my cat is my manager and he always looks dissatisfied with my work.
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    UnknownDJ2 15 hr. ago sticky tape, sticky side up... in a few strategic places... they'll try it at first, but now avoid the counters, most of the time... meow
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    bucebeak 12 hr. ago When I Was Very Small And here we see Ravi technically not on the counter.
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    Scottishlassincanada 13 hr. ago This my boy Loki's latest adventure- despite me screaming at him, "you're going to burn your paws you idiot” Like that was going to work It started when the cold weather got worse. wwww
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    winterweiss2902 - 15 hr. ago Be more persistent than them. Move them to the floor every time you see them on the counter. Animals are persistent and you need to be more persistent to win this. I'm saying this based on my experience with birds nesting on my property. I moved their empty nest away, they didn't like that and came back everyday. They think they're gonna win with their teamwork and persistence, but I proved them wrong.
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