Getting on Kitchen counters...

[gini]

I didn't know that I had a problem until I happened to walk into the kitchen the other day and found "an orange cat" sitting on one of the burners on my old gas stove. (means a pilot light is under the burner). It happened so fast that I could not tell if it was Annie or Emma up there because they immediately jumped down and ran away when I came into the room.

I now keep a frying pan on the burners so they won't do it again.

It scared me though!

Mine do it when I am not looking and because they jump down so fast you can tell they know they aren't supposed to be up there.

[Randi]

I'd try the two last suggestions JenBKR gave, one of them should work.

LOL Gini, I can picture Annie/Emma sitting up there ..... uh, her comes evil meowmie, better get the he%# out of here!!

[kuhio98]

Some people suggest spraying them with water when they do that, but I never could find the bottle when I needed it. So what we did was clap our hands or smack the countertop and yell NO real loud. Then push them off the countertop. It only took once or twice until they got the message. Now whenever we clap or smack something and yell NO, they stop whatever they are doing and run because they know it's not allowed.

[.sarah]

I don't have a solution, in fact, at the moment I'm having trouble with Nova jumping up on the counters and stealing food.

But, I've always wondered -- if you've just cooked something on the stove and your cats jump on the counters, do you put something over the stove so that they won't burn themselves? I mean, I'd like to own a cat in the future but I am *constantly* cooking and baking and I don't want my cat to get hurt because it steps on a burner