Some people say they have trained their cats to stay off the counter and dinner table. Their cats have learned how to not get caught on the counter and dinner table. Except for disabled cats who can’t jump, all cats make use of the vertical space in their homes. It’s one reason they don’t need to go outside to get exercise. And they feel safer when they have the high ground.
If you stopped them from jumping up on the coubter, the cat will just wait for you to not be around.
What I did was set a motion activated can of pressurized air up on the counter. Now the cat get’s “punished” for going up there whether I’m there or not.
A couple weeks of this was enough to not have him jump up there for years. In fact he seems to avoid ALL kitchen counters, because he doesn’t jump onto them when visiting relatives or friends, either.
He still climbs all over everything else, just not kitchen counters.
Some people say they have trained their cats to stay off the counter and dinner table. Their cats have learned how to not get caught on the counter and dinner table. Except for disabled cats who can’t jump, all cats make use of the vertical space in their homes. It’s one reason they don’t need to go outside to get exercise. And they feel safer when they have the high ground.
That depends on how you trained them.
If you stopped them from jumping up on the coubter, the cat will just wait for you to not be around.
What I did was set a motion activated can of pressurized air up on the counter. Now the cat get’s “punished” for going up there whether I’m there or not.
A couple weeks of this was enough to not have him jump up there for years. In fact he seems to avoid ALL kitchen counters, because he doesn’t jump onto them when visiting relatives or friends, either.
He still climbs all over everything else, just not kitchen counters.