How to keep cat off kitchen counters

Place double-sided sticky tape on your counter about the place the cat lands when he jumps up. Cats hate sticky stuff on their paws. Remove the tape once the habit is broken. Also, lining up aluminim cans can help hinder this, as cats don't like the noise the cans make when they fall. Once the cat thinks it's always going to be like that when he jumps on the counter, you can take the cans away.

The only thing that I know of that works 100% and that you can use when you are or aren't home are the shock pads. You place them on your counter and the cats gets a very, very mild shock. The squirt bottle is nice, but if you don't lock your cats in a room when you leave the house until they are fully trained, they are just going to jump up when you aren't home. I suggest that you invest in a good cat training book.

Sticky tape is always a good one and most usually works. It is hard to work on the counters with tape all over them though. Coffee grinds in the corners and behind appliances on the counter work sometimes as well. Spray bottle works almost every single time. Good luck to 'ya.

The key to training a cat to not do something is to make sure that there is never a reward for the action and usually a negative effect. So, the most important thing in breaking this habit of jumping on counters is to NEVER leave food out on the counters or dirty dishes in the sink for the cat to lick. Every time he jumps up there and finds something to eat, he is (in his mind) being rewarded for what he did. Once there is never a reward and you have added a deterrant, like the tape or foil, it will not be worth it to him to get up there any more. Squirt bottles work great, too, but some cats figure out that the water only happens whey you are in the room, so will wait until you are not there to get up on the counter, so an "away" strategy is good to have. Good luck.

My Columbus, who is ten years old, just started that bad habit! I caught him on the counter AND on the stove a few times and shooed him off. I think that he was just curious, but now keep clean dishes and food off the counter, the stove and the table.

Cats HATE water. Try using a spray bottle with water and everytime you see your cat jumping or about to jump on the counter, spray him/her with it. My daughter has a poodle and she had the same problem with Chloe jumping on the tables and now all they have to do is show her the water bottle and she doesn't get on the table. It also helps when you are trying to get her leash on her to go outside. She will sit still like a little lady once she sees the bottle, don't even have to spray her anymore! Hope this helps.

My mom always used a squirt bottle of water. When her cat would jump up she would give her a litle mist. She learned very quickly to not get up on the counter and my mom did not have to keep stuff all over the kitchen to train the cat.

a spray bottle full of water and a loud firm voice AND if you can catch him as he's running after you've sprayed him, a tap on the rump..

The best thing I have found was using a spray bottle with water. Most Cats hate water and when it gets up there, a quick spray will chase him. I also have used a verbal command..a short hard "chuch". They run off real quick.

If you want the cats off the counter then put them in a cage or leash them.

Fill a squirt bottle with regular water. Whenever you see your cat trying to get into anything that he isn't supposed to, squirt him with the bottle. You have to be really consistent with this or else it won't work. Mine got to the point where using the bottle wasn't even needed. If I'd just reach for the bottle or pick it up and show her, she'd run away.

lol mine is alreay grown but he only goes on the counters when ever u are making something to eat.. and he wants some.. lol but other than that he doesnt go on the counters...........

I've heard that you can use plain water in a spray bottle set on "mist" and give them a squirt when they hop up on the counter. Eventually they should get the picture.

always keep ur kitchen door closed or keep a dog soft toy inside the kitchen. it may work.

We have to cats and they love to go on the counters also. We keep a spray bottle filled with water in it and when they go on the counter and we can catch them we give them a spray and say no. It is starting to work. Now they just see the spray bottle and they run.

We always used a water bottle. When the cat jumped up on the counter, we would squirt it with water. It only takes a couple of times, and the cats would not try anymore. We used to raise Manx, and had 32 cats at one time. None of them got on the kitchen table or in the counters, or climbed the curtains. Squirt bottle works every time.

maybe give him a little smack and say no, but its not a big deal.

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My mom used a squirt bottle filled with water and every time the cat got on the counter or the table she would squirt him. It worked pretty well.