One benefit of living alone is no one cares if I leave the table cluttered to discourage cats from using it as a highway to the dining area window.
Of course, when my sister and her friend came here for her class reunion, I decluttered the table so we could eat there. Need I tell you that the decluttered table was an open invitation to the kitty brothers?!
Andy wasted no time checking out the decluttered table.
“No, no, no, Andy! You are too young to have some wine! SCAT cat!”
Nature abhors a vacuum, and cats abhor off-limits areas. I have to blockade the center island in the kitchen to prevent it from being used as a highway over to the window.
I know exactly how that goes! The recliner is one chair i warn visitors about because it is alarming to have a furball lunging at and/or over you if you aren’t expecting it to happen!
Tee hee!
Fortunately, Andy prefers not to try wine, but catnip would be OK!
Stick with the catnip Andy 🙂
I agree! Leave the wine to me, though I can only have it occasionally in small amounts….
Mol!!! Smart boy!!😺
He shows me that clever side all the time, especially at kitty medicine time!
Oh yes – we kats love to outsmart our humans!!😹
Same here, but I’ve tightened up my kitty sense to learn how best to capture Andy to give him his medicine! I’m getting pretty good at it!
Yeah my human too- dangit!😾
Hey, we never win in the end! We lose our hearts to our kitties, and they become incapable of doing the terrible things they do!
Yep!!!
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hehehe naughty cat. I am sure some day it is going to drink whiskey. Lol just loling. Very nice photos
I keep the single malt scotch high in the kitchen cabinet. While he can (an has) opened the lower ones, those above the counters are – for now – kitty proof. (I think!)
My persian Miss H likes to taste yoghurt pot when it is empty – nice to share something, it is important for the relationship !
Such a charming little pink tongue, and her eyes asking : may I ? Yes ! and the vet said – yes, too 🙂
amitiés – mais je le répète, le pot est vide !
Oh! So you are blessed with a Persian kitty, too! Please give Mlle. H. a nice pat on the head and a scratch under her chin from me!
Nutrition and food acceptable for cats are as big a question for cats as for people. My cats’ veterinarian doesn’t recommend beef or milk for cats because beef isn’t a food found naturally in their diet and many cats are lactose intolerant.
What can I say? When I had Louie the ginger cat, he ate cheese or drank a little milk all the time and never seemed to have a problem with it.
I don’t give Andy and Dougy these foods because of their veterinarian’s recommendations. He is the same veterinarian I took Louie to…!
Peut-être, mais vive les souvenirs de ce qui a été et ce qui peut être!
I am lucky the cats don’t seem to like the counter. My late Mosby was another matter, being Siamese he felt compelled to walk everywhere I didn’t want him to. I bleach just because they might be going behind my back.
That’s my thought on it. I never saw them on my counters until this past April, but I can’t believe they never walked on them when I wasn’t watching.
I would I’ve seen our cats checking where my husband is before leaping up.
Smart cats!
Maybe it takes a woman’s touch to be truly destructive.
Say what?!
Sorry I should have said; I have 2 girls and 2 boys. Its the brother/sister litter mate team that destroy the big things.
I have to live with a brother-brother team of destruction, but they have a brother and a sister from the same litter who live with a family in South Dakota.
Though my two are best buddies from the time they were kittens, their brother and sister hate each other. I suspect they have to destroy things without the help of the other kitty! hA!
My cats don’t wait for me to declutter. The rule in our house is if you don’t want a cat to throw it on the floor put it away. My very clean cats tip any clutter straight onto the floor where it belongs. Smokie & Pixie work together on the heavy items. Including a 4 foot high hand painted (by a family friend) clay leopard that I had put on the highest shelf it would fit on so they couldn’t chew it. Now they have to go to the granny flat to tidy. Bonus points for hitting a dog.
Andy tosses things on the floor, but I they have to be small enough to push or lift. Dougy accidentally knocks things off surfaces, but doesn’t deliberately do it.
And what was Dougy doing? Somehow, I can’t imagine him ignoring such an invitation.
Believe me when I tell you Dougy had his time on the table, too, and I used Clorox wipes on it after they were done! As a rule, I never place food or items like silverware directly on the table because I know the kitty boys walk on it whether it’s decluttered or not. The clutter just makes it less easy to walk there.
We use a lot of clorox wipes, too.
It’s vital, eh!?
No Fotos, instead immediate “NO” – followed by a non-nonsense setting down. Cats need consequence, than you can train them NOT TO walk on your dining table. That is something they just should not do! They walk with those cute paws into their toilets, scratch the cat litter over their urine or faeces – and then they should not be allowed on the kitchen counters and the table you eat from.
I totally agree with that. I also know that my efforts to discourage it haven’t worked. I don’t place food or eating utensils on the table or counter surfaces, ever! Though I wipe the table or counters down with bleach-saturated towelettes (Clorox wipes), the whole idea of those kitty feet on surfaces where food might touch is not only disgusting, it is dangerous for someone like me with a somewhat compromised immune system.
he he
Both kitties were bad boys once the table was decluttered, and got on it….!
great pics my friend….chuq
Thanks! Never mind that Andy was being a bad boy….!
did he have too much to drink? LOL
No, because he doesn’t like reds….!
LOL
Or whites…!
Maybe a tuna flavored vodka…LOL
LOL! Why not? It comes in many other flavors.
So true…..
Catnip vodka…! I’d never get them off the wall!
Female pheromone flavored would make for sleepless nites…LOL
Oh dear! (Mine are neutered cats, but I guess that might still be a problem for them to some degree or in some respect….)
Yep…my small dog is fixed and he still gets the urge….LOL
Oh dear!