Food and Counter-Surfing

[Freedom]

I would start with the water squirt bottle now.

Other than that, he is a C A T and this is what they do, some more than others.

As you can see from my siggy, I have a few kitties. I always know who will come running when I am working with chicken, which ones I will see when I prepare fish, and so on. One who has passed on now, Chestnut, went nuts for shrimp (none of the others cared for shrimp!) and would NOT leave until he had 3. Not 2, not 4, THREE. I have no idea what was magic about that number. So any time I had shrimp, I knew 3 were for Chestnut; life was just easier that way.

[Chatanuga]

With my cats, I kept a squirt bottle of water nearby when they were kittens.

What really works is the motion alarm I got from Lowes. It runs off three AA batteries, and you can set it to doorbell or alarm. I keep mine on the doorbell chime. It also comes with a remote so that I can aim it across the counter without them setting it off elsewhere in the kitchen. Anytime I'm home and hear it go off, I go running (stomping my feet on the floor as I go) towards the kitchen. They quickly learn that when the noise sounds, I'm going to come running. After a while, they hear the noise and get down on their own. Now, they rarely get up on the counter, although if I forget to set the alarm, they (typically Smokey) do tend to get curious.



I have a second one that I leave behind my TV to deter them from going behind the TV and messing with all of the cables.