I had to paint over their paw prints for two reasons - first because that was only the primer (if he had run across it on a later coat I would have kept it,) second, hubby thinks I'm too obsessed with my cats as it is, this only provide confirmations!

Though Allen left many paw prints on my stairs and window sill, I had stripped the old finish and stained it one night when hubby and the kids were out of town. I *thought* I locked Allen in the bedroom with me at night. When I woke in the morning, there were hundreds and hundreds of Allen paw prints up and down the stairs, on my winodw sill... everywhere. Many of them I didn't cover up. Then it was easy to tell who it did because back then, he was an only cat.