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Sometimes they’ll forget I’m home and hop up to do their thing - the half second of full body freeze before the slow turn and hasty escape when I make a noise and they realize they dun goofed brings me no end of joy.
I don’t get what is the problem people are trying to solve by not allowing cats on the counter. If you are doing food prep, you need to use the cutting board. If you are doing it on the counter, you need to clean it first, whether you have cats or not.
- Hot stove tops after cooking
- potentially poisonous things like onions
- knives
- “i need to set this down for a second and i don’t want the cats messing with it”
- dirty dishes
Not to say i just leave knives or food out, but I want to reduce the chances of them getting into something by making the counters unappealing to them (via the usual tricks of aluminum foil, sticky tape, precariously perched baking trays, or as a last resort, cat zappers (electrified mats))
Cats share territory with each other in nature, so if their human removes them from the counter, they’re just going to think that the counter is the human’s territory “right now” and cat is free to use it when human is gone.
A cat that likes you will in fact respect you and your wants…despite common belief
