Any ideas how to stop this?

[RICHARD]

Super Glue or Earthquake putty..

SIPPY CUPS!

Make him pay for the drinks?

Make him buy his own drinks!

Ask the bartender to make him leave?

Don't drink in front of him?

Film it and put it on You Tube!

Thats all I got!

[catnapper]

Film it and put it on You Tube!

We figured on that one. As well as building some kind of cup holders.

As for sippy cups.... know what soda does in one of them once its been knocked over? It fizzes and forms a bottle rocket.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

is he drinking it, or just knocking it over?

[catnapper]

is he drinking it, or just knocking it over?

Knocking it over. He walks up to it, as calm as can be, looks at it, lifts his paw, and swats it over.

[Freedom]

You mean you want to deprive him of a basic cat pleasure: watching things DROP? How COULD you even consider being so mean!

I love Richard's ideas. I was thinking of a weighted bottom cup, I think some of the travel mugs are weighted?

My Sparkle loves to knock things off a table, lean over and watch it drop and . . . roll, splatter, crack and break. She finds all of this quite intriguing.

Seems you have made a game of this because, from Mikey's point of view, you keep setting it up for him! Like standing up the pins in bowling, lol. Somehow, he thinks you WANT him to do this. Or maybe it is a way he gets your attention?

What about if you carry him over, place the cup down, sit holding him, and brush him? Maybe if he associates the drink with brushing he will cease? Or enjoy the brushing up and forget about the drink. Somehow, come up with something to redirect him.

Oh, and PLEASE, no more lit candles, not even in supposedly cat safe places! That is the LAST thing we want to be reading about from you!

[columbine]

Get some nice STONE or GLASS coasters from overstock.com or someplace, and glue Velcro on them. Get some PLASTIC drinking glasses and glue the other half of the Velcro on the bottom. That's all I can think of. But what a strange compulsion! He must have been a firefighter in a past life.

Love, Columbine

[RICHARD]

Actually?

My ideas really don't makes sense....this is what mom always called PAYBACK.

Way back when, in your short life, something happened near a lake, stream or ocean that the gods have seemed to curse you about.
My way of getting over on him?

Reinforcement therapy.

Associate water with a shower-Now, this sounds cruel, ?

Set the cup/glass down and wait until he walks up to it and pushes it over....

Then you spring into action and pour-yes, I said pour!- a few ounces of water on his head.

Knock glass over?
I get wet on my head.

I do like the bruch idea, but you then have to brush and drink at the same time.


I hate doing the 'extreme' cat therapy stuff.....The squirter was good, until ED got the idea that he would do his scratching on whatever and would look to see if I was grabbing for the bottle. When we got to the point where I would stand up? He knew that water was on the way......

Really!

Good Luck with this behavior....there is worse, and I have a terrible sense of humor.

[Cinder & Smoke]

... a basic cat pleasure: watching things DROP?

My Sparkle loves to knock things off a table,
lean over and watch it drop and . . .
roll, splatter, crack and break. She finds all of this quite intriguing.

Oh, and PLEASE, no more lit candles,
not even in supposedly cat safe places!

Boots, da KAT, was quite skilled at testing the gravitational pull on falling objects!
NOTHING was safe ... he'd spend most of every night checking every
horizontal surface he could climb or jump onto ...
then *push* whatever he found toward an edge - and then OVER!

I have an old, empty, LARGE,, wine bottle on my dresser that I toss
loose pennies into - it always weighed MORE than da KAT ever did.
Boots started as a Kitten, and over the course of MANY years, managed to
*push* that penny bottle to the brink of disaster several times a year!
I'd let him get it to within about an inch or two of the Tip & Crash point -
then slide it back to the center of the dresser. Good for another 60 days or so.

And after a penny bottle "reset", he retaliate by shoving everything ELSE
on the dresser onto the floor the next night.
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Candle Caution:
Candles are DANGEROUS - and can become LETHAL to both man and beast when
you add a *Critter* to a room with a lighted candle.
One *SWISH* of a tail and you can have either a Flaming PET or a Flaming ROOM!