I just told my cat to get off the table 8 times in two hours, she just

[texanwitch]

gives me a nasty look and walks away after I throw her off.

I see a water gun is in order, one with a little power to it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Super Soakers.

Although with those you end up getting stuff wet besides the cat.

Cats are the most perverse little beasts -- reference my catventure this evening: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5707827&mesg_id=5707827

The cat in question is now SOOOOOO glad to be home, just crawling all over me and purring. Why wasn't he a little friendlier while I was chasing him all over the neighborhood?

[texanwitch]

2. That's a cat.

You cat sounds just like mine.

She has been getting out but doen's go far, she cries at the door until someone lets her in.

I have a fenced in yard and I hope she stays in the yard.

I am glad you had a full moon for a little light to see by.

[Porcupine]

8. Add a bit of vinegar to the water.

The cat will get the message much faster.

[Deja Q]

17. Put that in the super soaker!

:evilgrin:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear texanwitch!

Water guns definitely do the trick!

We used to squirt our cats back when we still had them....

It didn't take much at all........They hated getting wet!

:hi:

[texanwitch]

4. I hope that works, she knows better then to be on the table.

She is at that age, not cat or kitten.

:hi: :pals:

[jobycom]

15. One of my cats likes water.

If you forget to empty a glass on the counter, she'll knock it over by sticking her head in it. If there is ice in the glass, she'll reach her paw into the glass and throw the ice onto the floor. Yesterday she stick her paw in a glass of water and shook the water all over me and my keyboard. Three days ago she was on the counter watching me drink a glass of ice water. When I dumped the cubes in the disposal side of the sink, she lunged after the cubes, sticking a paw down the disposal. I chased her away, but a minute later, she was back in the sink, sticking her paw down the disposal for the ice. I turned on the faucet to frighten her. She backed up a step, watched the stream of water with curiosity, then began batting at it, spraying water everywhere.

I now have to leave the stopper in the disposal. Have you ever read the story of the cat who got her head stuck in the disposal drain because her owner had thrown some fish down the disposal? I can so see Amber doing that!

http://www.snopes.com/critters/disposal/catchday.htm

[kedrys]

19. Unless... your cat is like my Plato, aka Aquatread

Aside from his fur being made of a substance that sloughs off water better than teflon, the furball LIKES water. When he was small, he used to swim in the potty when nobody was looking. I've hit him square in the nose with the spray bottle, and he just looked at me with that look of "what'd'you do that for???" :rofl:

[NMMNG]

5. How dare you tell her to get off her table?!?

Don't you know anything in a cat's environment is hers, and she just allows you to use it? :P

[texanwitch]

6. The cat is living up to her name, she is named after my first cat.

That was one bossy cat, she ruled the yard and all her daughters.

It is hard to believe Tuna is the last the great Monkee line of cats.

[Archae]

7. I swear I have the best-behaved cat in the world.

Lucky, my b/w female.



She's never been naughty, that I remember.

But then there's Erin, my tabby male:



His nickname is "Beelzabub." :-)

He gets into the cupboards, climbs on everything, but can I stay mad at him?
Hell no. :loveya:

[texanwitch]

9. I can't stay mad with Monkee.

I found her when she was about a month old in a old house yelling for her Mother.

She had turned into a fine cat, she just got to learn that she can't lay on the table.

She is very much her own cat, I was hoping for lap cat but maybe next time.


Sometimes a cat has to climb.

[mykpart]

10. Not a water gun,

a spray bottle, with the nozzle set on "spray" rather than "stream." Or even a plant mister. That way you won't get a big stream of water in her ear or nostril. My cat stole my bacon yesterday when I was getting a cup of coffee.

[texanwitch]

12. Your bacon.

I am sure the smell of the bacon was just to much for cat.

[Robeson]

11. If you "throw" your cat, I will be pissed at you....

...and you don't want to see me pissed....

A little spray with the water bottle should be ample.

But I never want to see that word "throw" again...:spank:

[texanwitch]

13. I should of used the world pushed of the table.

After the the second time she would jump from the table when she saw me coming. She knows she shouldn't be there, she is not there now. Monkee playing cat games with me.

[KG]

14. cats like a little elevation, a place they can roost and look over

the 'savannah'. maybe one of those cat 'towers' would suffice for your guy.

[Skittles]

16. tell texankit I will kick her ass

yes INDEED

[Love Bug]

18. Yes! You need the Avenging Squirt Bottle of Justice!

[hedgehog]

20. I tried one of those to keep our dog Guinness off the table.

Guinness (a Beagle/German shepherd cross) just looks at us funny, licks his face and continues to stand there with his paws on the table looking to scrounge off any handy plates.

[Haole Girl]

21. Yes, squirt guns work quite well

It doesn't take one with a lot of water either (at least it didn't for my cats). Now that my cats are "trained" they only jump up on the table when I'm not looking...or, when company is over. :eyes: