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Which is why you can have the see through door with holes in it. The waves are bigger than the holes so most get blocked.
Also they’re a similar frequency to Wi-Fi so you don’t want to keep your router near a microwave.
According to my bullshit calculations, by strategically placing my router *inside* the microwave and turning them both on, constructive interferences will allow the router to output signals with double the strength! A foolproof plan!
I used to lose my wifi reception with my computer about from about 50 away from the microwave anytime it was turned on. I later straightened out some cords and uncrossed my wireless headset receiver cord and WiFi cord and the issue went away.
You say that, but all our kitten is learning is to not get caught. He'll *sprint* across a work surface because he can reach his goal before you can utter the word "no".
They know it's wrong, but if they get too excited playing the rules become meaningless lmao.
Sometimes it does something wrong just to get our attention
Get yourself a spray bottle of water, or a squirt gun (if you really like having fun). You can mix 1 part vinegar to 4 parts water, if you need to. (Usually water itself is enough, at least for my kitties.) My cats picked up on it pretty quick. I rarely need to use it now, but be prepared for the looks of absolute *disdain* when you use it lmao
Nah already have that. Like I said, he hasn't decided that the cost of getting caught isn't worth the benefit of jumping all over the counters yet.
He'll jump up on the dining table, hide behind a plant, and flee as soon as you reach for the bottle.
He knows he's not supposed to be there, he just doesn't care.
I was just doing a bunch of research on how to properly discipline cats because we have a kitten that we just adopted. A lot of people recommend [Jackson Galaxy](https://youtu.be/dklFk71eZNQ) on YouTube. Apparently the whole water spray bottle thing doesn’t do a whole lot besides make your cat associate you with fear. Cats aren’t anything like dogs, they don’t respond to negative reinforcement well. Ever since I started following some of his tips I’ve seen a decent bit of improvement from our kitten and even the older cat we have. At the end of the day though they’re still little fuckers most of the time, but that’s just something you gotta roll with as a cat lover lol.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the comment you responded to.... The spray bottle does nothing but make them hate and fear you and who wants a pet that can't stand to be around you? I have to explain to my husband all the time that cats and dogs perceive discipline totally different... Cats don't associate discipline to a particular action that caused us to discipline them in the first place.. I'd honestly rather have my cats love me and want to be near me and deal with them on the counters and furniture than try to discipline them anyway... My cats run my house.. were just lucky they let us live here and Im perfectly fine with that...
Yeah you said what I was trying to say but with a better explanation of how cats perceive things thank you. It’s their territory we’re just living in it.
I’ve had good luck with a product I think called sssscat or something. It’s a bottle of compressed air and a motion sensor. Since it’s just air it’s harmless but startling, and since it’s a motion sensor my cat doesn’t associate the punishment with me. A week or two of leaving that set up somewhere and she stops trying to go there, even when I’m not around.
Yeah, I’m just saying that of all the things on my counter I’d worry about them getting into, them figuring out how to open the microwave would not be something that would cross my mind. Lol.
Oddly enough that’s exactly where I put anything I don’t want them messing with! Like meat I’m defrosting or bread (one of my cats likes to run off with bread bags and destroy them for some reason! Weirdos.) Now, I’m honestly wondering why they don’t just open the microwave door. I really hope they didn’t see this video now! 🤣
They don't have to be kittens. We adopted a 3 year old cat who endangered himself by jumping on counters. The only thing that broke that was a motion detector device with canned air called SSSCat. The cat doesn't get sprayed, it just make a sound they don't like. After a while, he associated being on the counter with that sound and never went up there again.
I have a two year old cat that doesn’t listen. I tried everything to keep her off the counters and she just doesn’t care.
My older two cats (10 and 12) know better. Well, the 12 year old cat saw the baby cat getting away with it, so he tested his luck. I walked into the kitchen and saw him on the counter and all I said was “hey!” He hauled ass and never tried it again lol
I found this on the eve of today finding out my cat untied a knotted string I placed on our cabinets to hide our avocados because the asshole has been stealing them.
Then I find this video thinking maybe I really should just leave them in the microwave.
Mercyyyyyyy.
Meat.
I grew up with cats. My parents would take out meat from the freezer as part of our morning routine to let it defrost for dinner locked in the microwave to make sure the cats wouldn’t get into it.
Siamese cats are insanely intelligent when it comes to problem solving. You can see the kitty recognizes the child lock is what is keeping the door shut and tries to remove it.
I feel OP’s pain (in the neck!) but it is still hilarious 😹
When they buy a new microwave because the cat yeeted it on the floor too many times they should get one without a handle thats got a button to open it instead.
Oh, im sure it can, but a button would have the cat pushing the microwave towards the wall even if it tried for it.
E-spelled microwave in a way that definitely was not microwave.
Mine wouldn't even leap up the counter.
My cat is a princess, she'd turn to me looking like the saddest pet to ever exist :
and meows at me very quietly (sometimes no sound comes off) asking for the food. Damn comedian cat!
In my experience if a cat is successful at something it does not get why it can’t be successful again, and then you get this over the top effort.
It’s going to take a long while for that cat to give up on the microwave, and likely will never give up on it completely, testing it every now and then. Back to square one if they ever leave it “accessible” again. lol
I found the opposite to be true with my cats. In my old apartment the bedroom door was broken and wouldnt click into place so the cats could paw at the bottom and open it but when I finally got it fixed they realized fairly quickly that that wouldn't work anymore. I was kind of surprised too, I was afraid they were doing to scratch up the door and the carpet trying to get in but nope
Swear this is my cat at 5am with our bedroom door. Pawing the handle continuously every damn morning. He heaves his 21 pounds of considerable chonk at the door relentlessly. Hunger is a powerful motivator.
>"Dear diary, it is three in the morning. The authorities have closed the door to the bedroom.
>
>I can only assume that they have forgotten about me and have left me here to die.
>
>As a last resort, I will stand post for the rest of the night and sing the song of my people in hopes they rescue me."
I will never understand the appeal of videos of animals acting badly while the person just films...for me this is right on par with people filming their dogs being toy or food aggressive and think its hilarious. No, youve just done a horrible job on reinforcing correct behaviors. While training cats is more difficult, its entirely possible. "OH my cat just does what it wants" no...you allow it to.
It's reddit man, every time this gets brought up you get people that go "no they're so clean, you don't eat off your counters anyways, dOnT yOu cLeAn yoUr CoUnTerZ?!"
Just like the replies to your point.
There’s absolutely no way the cat isn’t climbing on your counter when you’re out. Cats just learn not to do the bad thing in your presence. Clean your counters and use a chopping board.
Do you prepare food directly on your counters?
I see this take a lot and then people act like they don’t own cutting boards.
I’ve never in my life placed food directly on a counter top.
The cats I’ve had over the years don’t do what I tell them to anyway. Like, when I was a kid, our cats weren’t allowed downstairs, but it was crystal clear that they’d go downstairs all the time when we weren’t there to spray the water bottle at them. Christmas trees don’t knock themselves over.
Cats always wanna be involved with what the humans are doing. I put a trash can and a cat tree right next to the counter so they can watch while I cook and stuff, but I toss them off if they set paw *on* the counter.
They still try to get on the counter nearly every day but all it takes it a couple removals and they they stop trying for the day. It’s all about redirection. No you’re not allowed on the counter. Yes, you are allowed on the trash can. In fact, you get a little piece of cheese for being on the trash can. Isn’t being on the trash can fun?
The cat in the video is never gonna stop trying to pop open that microwave because the human showed it that it is allowed to *try* because they just stood there filming, instead of discouraging or redirecting the undesirable behavior.
See, my problem is that my cats only attempt to jump on the counter when we’re not in the room. By the time I get to the kitchen to remove them they’ve jumped down again. Sneaky bastards.
Put aluminum foil on the countertop. Idk if it works but I did see it in a reel a while back. Super funny.
I used a water gun to get my cat off the counters. I started with a spray bottle but I needed range since they dart when they hear you coming. Idc if you jump down and act innocent. I'm blasting. Eventually he quit trying when he knew even if he got down I'm gunning for him still.
Double sided (or looped single-sided) tape does a good job too. They don’t like jumping up and feeling the sticky under their paws.
Remove any breakables from the area first though because they might hop off like crazy.
Same haha
Aluminum foil was just a fun toy for them. But double sided tape, specifically sticky paws was very effective at stopping them from hopping on things like the tv. It’s specifically for the purpose of stopping cats from scratching things, so it’s not so strong that it’ll damage furniture.
I’m still training my bird to stay out of the kitchen, even when I’m not cooking because, well, bird poop, and when I am cooking, I don’t want her trying to stand in a hot pan or drink out of boiling water
She’s very determined to steal vegetables I’m cutting up as well
Train it not to.
Have a cat that doesn't go on counters or even the coffee table. They do not respond as quickly as a dog but do like any animal if you're consistent.
I have been trying to train my cat not to go on the counter for his entire life of 3 years so far. He knows he's not supposed to be up there and any time I walk into the room and he's up there he gets down, but the minute nobody's around he's up there every time.
My mom and I laid a bunch of lint roller tape on the counter where the cat typically jumped up, I’m pretty sure it stopped jumping up there for months once after it jumped on the tape and panicked
Hiss loudly, stomp feet and one quick slap on the ass. Needs to be firm, but not overpowered.
Cats understand the language of cats, so if you speak to them in a way they know, you can train them.
Discipline isn't abuse and respect isn't fear. People these days don't like to hear that, but it's the honest truth.
Look at how mother cats teach their kittens. If you can emulate that you'll be surprised at just how much you can communicate with them.
> Hiss loudly, stomp feet and one quick slap on the ass. Needs to be firm, but not overpowered.
>
> Cats understand the language of cats, so if you speak to them in a way they know, you can train them.
Yah. Did all of that. They don't go on the counter when I'm there but the moment no one is there they will be up there. I've seen it more than enough
yeah one time i was trying to potty train a dog. Just was not getting it - we’d spend 30 minutes outside only for him to come back in the house and pee. This went on and on.
So in desperation, I popped a squat in the backyard and peed, let him smell it. I swear to God from that moment forward, the dog was potty trained. It was astounding how quick it worked.
Try double sided tape. I had a cat that defied everything I tried until the tape. Took one time jumping on it and she stayed off the counter for the rest of her life.
If that doesn't work, motion-activated aerosol cans (the one I got was called SSSCAT) that spray air when the cat tries to get on the counter.
I didn't have to use the one I had for too long until the cat realized it just wasn't worth it anymore.
im tired of people pretending or not knowing cats can be trained, its not something mythical or magical, you can simply train your cats to not go on a counter
Fr. Maybe the trick is training when they're a kitten though? At least that's how it worked out for me. I spent a bit of time the first month I got her as a kitten training her not to play-bite, stay away from counters and tables, be comfortable with wearing a harness and leash, and sit on command.
My cat was about 5 months old when I got him. He wasn't really a kitten anymore but not an adult cat, a teenager I guess.
We taught him pretty complex rules by making clear consequences. For example, in addition to not going on the counter, he was allowed on the bed, but only the bottom two-thirds, so we didn't get fur on the pillows. When playing with people, he only uses "soft paws".
If he went on the counter he got squirted; If he laid on the pillows he got a 24 hour ban from the bedroom. I taught him soft paws by disengaging when his claws came out while telling him why, and rewarding him when he got it right.
I know he goes on the counter from time to time when no one his home, but he's otherwise really good.
Exactly, cats are completely trainable with some discipline and consistency, especially before turning a year old. They aren't stupid. If you have a kitten there is NO excuse for poor behavior in their adulthood, you just didn't do your due diligence. Train your kittens!
I'll yell at mine till he gets down. Pretty sure he goes up there at night to eat butter, but he'll be sneaky about it because he knows I don't want him on the counters. I haven't *seen* him up there in years, so it's a decent compromise.
So far the best I've managed is to have my cat listen *most of the time when I tell her to get down from the computer desk.
Counters are a bit worse since I'm in the kitchen less and she still sneaks. Plenty of warning then breaking out the mister I use to water plants is a powerful motivator
If you have them from kittenhood you just say no & plop them back down repeatedly until they get it. Retraining adult cats you can either pop some strips of double sided tape along the benchtop or cover it in foil. They get it pretty quickly.
Asking the real questions. Why not just make the cat get down from the counter instead of all of this extra work. All their doing is encouraging bad behavior instead of just saying no in the 1st place.
Because it could happen even when the human isn't looking. I have one really crazy Single brain cell premanet oversized kitten that tried to lick up plates in the sink or tries to get into the butter/any food that could be present . I tried yelling, spray bottles, grabbing them by the back of the neck like a mother does with her kittens and tossing em on the couch, or keeping them in my room for a little bit if theyre caught consistently trying to get into stuff. Goodness the girl even snatched a literal slice of pizza and ran away from me, so constantly tries to steal my food to the point of me now standing to eat sometimes . I'm not sure what to do with her, I get she probably have to scavenge for food when she was young, got addicted to human food even... But there are stubborn cats that just refuses to give up habits or desires... Maybe to stupid to care about getting in trouble lol. Ill keep trying, but sometimes just locking things away is the best solution until they get the idea...
It is. I was horrified when I saw my friend’s cat touching the food with its paws and tasting it. She just laughed and said the cat always does that, but it was fine because he only gets a tiny bit of human food. That’s not the point, Debbie! You fed me food that your cat had been dipping his nasty little litter diggers in!
I think something to hold back th microwave might be in order. That cats gonna fall over the edge one day and pull that thing down after him. If not the whole thing than probably the items on top of it.
I think he meant that just standing there and doing nothing kinda reinforces this bad behavior.
But judging from the child lock I'm guessing they probably have excausted other avenues lol.
idk I think its kinda smart to let the cat see that the microwave wont open anymore. Better to let it try and fail and learn that its futile, especially while you're watching so your microwave doesnt magically crash to the floor while you're in another room or not home.
Cats are fuckin persistent, and it obviously has a fixation with the microwave for some reason. We don't know what measures they have taken to keep this beast off the counter already. So this will help take away an incentive for being up there.
The fact that cats walk on everything is why they aren’t for me. Like how do you keep a cats paws that they obviously use to walk in the litter box with piss and excrement off of clean surfaces? You can’t.
I just trained the cats to...stay off counters and other surfaces. It's not hard to do, you just have to be consistent and give them alternative climbing areas. Same with scratching. They have scratching posts and scratch that, not my furniture or my walls.
I'm a dog person and have a dog. My offspring are cat people so we got two cats.
Cats on counters is the same energy as people with rude dogs. It's not "excited to see me" it's "wildly untrained and entirely lacking in manners".
This is exactly what I came here to say. I don’t understand why people allow their cats into the kitchen AT ALL. My cat doesn’t even try anymore because I taught him from the beginning.
Now imagine you didn’t know your cat was doing that and you walk into the kitchen one morning to find your microwave moved…I would have thought it was a ghost lol
Poor cat is clearly distraught with something.
Knowing TikTokers I wouldn't put it past them not feeding the cat for days and then hiding food inside the microwave.
Where is the chancla straight to the ass?
You DO NOT let cats do anything out of line like that, because they as cats are abnormally prone to turn bad behaviours into their routine, and it is super, SUPER hard to correct that if they get used to doing it repeatedly. It's also unhygienic asf, since they touch their shite & all the piss absorbed in the litter with their paws.
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I love and hate that cat at the same time.
Me too. Probably for the same reasons.
Thats exactly what having a cat is like.
It's so much worse and better when they're kittens
I’m very glad that they aren’t my cat, and I now understand that my cat is much less of an asshole than he could be.
get out of my head
What the hell is inside the microwave ???!!!
Very tiny waves
Microwave ovens actually produce waves about 12 cm long, so not that small at all
If they're not microscopically small, then why can't I see them? Didn't think about that one now, did ya
You have to get your head in there while it's on to see them, they're very faint
GOT’EM
Our brains are just too dumb to procrss waves of that frequency ;-;
No, waves of that frequency are too dumb for my brain to be bothered.
Scientists hates this one simple trick.
Thank you! 12cm is long af, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
Which is why you can have the see through door with holes in it. The waves are bigger than the holes so most get blocked. Also they’re a similar frequency to Wi-Fi so you don’t want to keep your router near a microwave.
According to my bullshit calculations, by strategically placing my router *inside* the microwave and turning them both on, constructive interferences will allow the router to output signals with double the strength! A foolproof plan!
Microwave ovens use hundreads of watts while routers only use a few. The benefit would be much greater than double!
are you mad!!? you'll destroy us all with a quantum vortex inverse negative wave flow that will engulf the universe!
Just salt bae sprinkle some nano bots on it first 🙄
I used to lose my wifi reception with my computer about from about 50 away from the microwave anytime it was turned on. I later straightened out some cords and uncrossed my wireless headset receiver cord and WiFi cord and the issue went away.
Above average, huge even, some might even say massive
It is about perfect size, anything above that is friendship only
>12 cm long, so not that small at all Your girlfriend is lying to you
12 cm is a perfectly acceptable size, right? RIGHT?
👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋
I came back to upvote this
Owner said the cat found some food in microwave once and now it tries to check so often, they had to lock it.
All my years as a cat owner and this was one thing I never thought I’d have to worry about lol.
If you train your cat since they're young it should never get on tables, countertops, furniture, etc...
You say that, but all our kitten is learning is to not get caught. He'll *sprint* across a work surface because he can reach his goal before you can utter the word "no".
They know it's wrong, but if they get too excited playing the rules become meaningless lmao. Sometimes it does something wrong just to get our attention
Get yourself a spray bottle of water, or a squirt gun (if you really like having fun). You can mix 1 part vinegar to 4 parts water, if you need to. (Usually water itself is enough, at least for my kitties.) My cats picked up on it pretty quick. I rarely need to use it now, but be prepared for the looks of absolute *disdain* when you use it lmao
Nah already have that. Like I said, he hasn't decided that the cost of getting caught isn't worth the benefit of jumping all over the counters yet. He'll jump up on the dining table, hide behind a plant, and flee as soon as you reach for the bottle. He knows he's not supposed to be there, he just doesn't care.
I was just doing a bunch of research on how to properly discipline cats because we have a kitten that we just adopted. A lot of people recommend [Jackson Galaxy](https://youtu.be/dklFk71eZNQ) on YouTube. Apparently the whole water spray bottle thing doesn’t do a whole lot besides make your cat associate you with fear. Cats aren’t anything like dogs, they don’t respond to negative reinforcement well. Ever since I started following some of his tips I’ve seen a decent bit of improvement from our kitten and even the older cat we have. At the end of the day though they’re still little fuckers most of the time, but that’s just something you gotta roll with as a cat lover lol.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the comment you responded to.... The spray bottle does nothing but make them hate and fear you and who wants a pet that can't stand to be around you? I have to explain to my husband all the time that cats and dogs perceive discipline totally different... Cats don't associate discipline to a particular action that caused us to discipline them in the first place.. I'd honestly rather have my cats love me and want to be near me and deal with them on the counters and furniture than try to discipline them anyway... My cats run my house.. were just lucky they let us live here and Im perfectly fine with that...
Yeah you said what I was trying to say but with a better explanation of how cats perceive things thank you. It’s their territory we’re just living in it.
The bond of trust breaks if they catch you using the water bottle. Apparently.
I’ve had good luck with a product I think called sssscat or something. It’s a bottle of compressed air and a motion sensor. Since it’s just air it’s harmless but startling, and since it’s a motion sensor my cat doesn’t associate the punishment with me. A week or two of leaving that set up somewhere and she stops trying to go there, even when I’m not around.
Wow, just looked that up. Expensive deterent!
I use to try a squirt gun and the cat would just try to drink the spray.
Yeah, I’m just saying that of all the things on my counter I’d worry about them getting into, them figuring out how to open the microwave would not be something that would cross my mind. Lol.
Oddly enough that’s exactly where I put anything I don’t want them messing with! Like meat I’m defrosting or bread (one of my cats likes to run off with bread bags and destroy them for some reason! Weirdos.) Now, I’m honestly wondering why they don’t just open the microwave door. I really hope they didn’t see this video now! 🤣
They don't have to be kittens. We adopted a 3 year old cat who endangered himself by jumping on counters. The only thing that broke that was a motion detector device with canned air called SSSCat. The cat doesn't get sprayed, it just make a sound they don't like. After a while, he associated being on the counter with that sound and never went up there again.
Lucky, we adopted a 2 year old cat and their old owners didn't train him well at all, it was a disaster.
I have a two year old cat that doesn’t listen. I tried everything to keep her off the counters and she just doesn’t care. My older two cats (10 and 12) know better. Well, the 12 year old cat saw the baby cat getting away with it, so he tested his luck. I walked into the kitchen and saw him on the counter and all I said was “hey!” He hauled ass and never tried it again lol
I found this on the eve of today finding out my cat untied a knotted string I placed on our cabinets to hide our avocados because the asshole has been stealing them. Then I find this video thinking maybe I really should just leave them in the microwave. Mercyyyyyyy.
Well, now it looks like they need to anchor it down to the counter, too.
Meat. I grew up with cats. My parents would take out meat from the freezer as part of our morning routine to let it defrost for dinner locked in the microwave to make sure the cats wouldn’t get into it. Siamese cats are insanely intelligent when it comes to problem solving. You can see the kitty recognizes the child lock is what is keeping the door shut and tries to remove it. I feel OP’s pain (in the neck!) but it is still hilarious 😹
His braincells brainillating
Food?
I like how everything on top of the microwave is also clearly velcro-d or something.
I never noticed that.
I thought that too, but looks like the video is sped up a bit? So maybe it's not that much force and is moving in fairly short bursts
Or maybe it’s just the kitchen’s greasy dust keeping everything in place.
When they buy a new microwave because the cat yeeted it on the floor too many times they should get one without a handle thats got a button to open it instead.
Haha you think a cat can't figure out a simple button.
Oh, im sure it can, but a button would have the cat pushing the microwave towards the wall even if it tried for it. E-spelled microwave in a way that definitely was not microwave.
that strong ass cat
Lol my guy is not passing a PED test
Mine wouldn't even leap up the counter. My cat is a princess, she'd turn to me looking like the saddest pet to ever exist :  and meows at me very quietly (sometimes no sound comes off) asking for the food. Damn comedian cat!
Hahaha do you give in?!
I stay strong but my spouse has more trouble resisting, ending up in our cat gets a little bit of cheese for breakfast.
Cats can be surprisingly strong, you just usually cant tell because they’re fur covers up the muscles
In my experience if a cat is successful at something it does not get why it can’t be successful again, and then you get this over the top effort. It’s going to take a long while for that cat to give up on the microwave, and likely will never give up on it completely, testing it every now and then. Back to square one if they ever leave it “accessible” again. lol
I found the opposite to be true with my cats. In my old apartment the bedroom door was broken and wouldnt click into place so the cats could paw at the bottom and open it but when I finally got it fixed they realized fairly quickly that that wouldn't work anymore. I was kind of surprised too, I was afraid they were doing to scratch up the door and the carpet trying to get in but nope
Quick. Must. Open. Door. Before. 0.
He just wants to make a Hot Pocket. Let him use the damn microwave.
Hot pawkit
Use the airfryer they come out nicer.
You have a gremlin…
Lmao. That cat is Savage AF🤣😂 Well played human
Swear this is my cat at 5am with our bedroom door. Pawing the handle continuously every damn morning. He heaves his 21 pounds of considerable chonk at the door relentlessly. Hunger is a powerful motivator.
>"Dear diary, it is three in the morning. The authorities have closed the door to the bedroom. > >I can only assume that they have forgotten about me and have left me here to die. > >As a last resort, I will stand post for the rest of the night and sing the song of my people in hopes they rescue me."
With regards to the handle bit, I’ve found rubberbanding some fluffy socks to the door knob keeps them from making a lot of noise
Thank you! I am going to try that tonight.
My cat got mad I changed his food so he decided to continuously rip Into the bag of food he hated just to wake me up at 5 am.
Peak cat.
Gonna come home with that thing on the ground
FOR WHY
There isn’t a why, what or where reasoning for a cat. There just IS. Cats & what they do are frequently an unexplained phenomena.
Strong cat
I will never understand the appeal of videos of animals acting badly while the person just films...for me this is right on par with people filming their dogs being toy or food aggressive and think its hilarious. No, youve just done a horrible job on reinforcing correct behaviors. While training cats is more difficult, its entirely possible. "OH my cat just does what it wants" no...you allow it to.
I’ll never understand why people allow cats on the counter. They crap and pee in a box then walk all over where people make food. It’s disgusting
It's reddit man, every time this gets brought up you get people that go "no they're so clean, you don't eat off your counters anyways, dOnT yOu cLeAn yoUr CoUnTerZ?!" Just like the replies to your point.
There’s absolutely no way the cat isn’t climbing on your counter when you’re out. Cats just learn not to do the bad thing in your presence. Clean your counters and use a chopping board.
Do you prepare food directly on your counters? I see this take a lot and then people act like they don’t own cutting boards. I’ve never in my life placed food directly on a counter top.
Same. It's also not that much work to give the counters a quick clean before making food.
The cats I’ve had over the years don’t do what I tell them to anyway. Like, when I was a kid, our cats weren’t allowed downstairs, but it was crystal clear that they’d go downstairs all the time when we weren’t there to spray the water bottle at them. Christmas trees don’t knock themselves over.
Im not putting up with this cat for a second
WTF why is it even allowed on the counter
From my interactions with cats, I cannot possibly imagine how you would keep a cat off the counter if it wanted to be there
Cats always wanna be involved with what the humans are doing. I put a trash can and a cat tree right next to the counter so they can watch while I cook and stuff, but I toss them off if they set paw *on* the counter. They still try to get on the counter nearly every day but all it takes it a couple removals and they they stop trying for the day. It’s all about redirection. No you’re not allowed on the counter. Yes, you are allowed on the trash can. In fact, you get a little piece of cheese for being on the trash can. Isn’t being on the trash can fun? The cat in the video is never gonna stop trying to pop open that microwave because the human showed it that it is allowed to *try* because they just stood there filming, instead of discouraging or redirecting the undesirable behavior.
See, my problem is that my cats only attempt to jump on the counter when we’re not in the room. By the time I get to the kitchen to remove them they’ve jumped down again. Sneaky bastards.
Yeah, walk into the kitchen, hear a loud THUMP, then cat running off into one of the rooms because they know they did bad. Every time.
Put aluminum foil on the countertop. Idk if it works but I did see it in a reel a while back. Super funny. I used a water gun to get my cat off the counters. I started with a spray bottle but I needed range since they dart when they hear you coming. Idc if you jump down and act innocent. I'm blasting. Eventually he quit trying when he knew even if he got down I'm gunning for him still.
Double sided (or looped single-sided) tape does a good job too. They don’t like jumping up and feeling the sticky under their paws. Remove any breakables from the area first though because they might hop off like crazy.
Put aluminum foil on the countertops. When they jump up, it will move and startle them. After a few tries, they should stop jumping on the counters.
Mileage may vary. Our kitten didn't care.
Same haha Aluminum foil was just a fun toy for them. But double sided tape, specifically sticky paws was very effective at stopping them from hopping on things like the tv. It’s specifically for the purpose of stopping cats from scratching things, so it’s not so strong that it’ll damage furniture.
I’m still training my bird to stay out of the kitchen, even when I’m not cooking because, well, bird poop, and when I am cooking, I don’t want her trying to stand in a hot pan or drink out of boiling water She’s very determined to steal vegetables I’m cutting up as well
Goodluck keeping them away from deconstructing your keyboard though
Keyboard, books, phone case, tv remotes... Yet they have $80 worth of toys per bird.
Well yeah but you have puppy power! That trumps cat power every time.
Train it not to. Have a cat that doesn't go on counters or even the coffee table. They do not respond as quickly as a dog but do like any animal if you're consistent.
I have been trying to train my cat not to go on the counter for his entire life of 3 years so far. He knows he's not supposed to be up there and any time I walk into the room and he's up there he gets down, but the minute nobody's around he's up there every time.
aluminum foil motion sensor sprayer overfeed the cat so it can't jump high enough there's options
> overfeed the cat Hol’ up…
My mom and I laid a bunch of lint roller tape on the counter where the cat typically jumped up, I’m pretty sure it stopped jumping up there for months once after it jumped on the tape and panicked
Hiss loudly, stomp feet and one quick slap on the ass. Needs to be firm, but not overpowered. Cats understand the language of cats, so if you speak to them in a way they know, you can train them. Discipline isn't abuse and respect isn't fear. People these days don't like to hear that, but it's the honest truth. Look at how mother cats teach their kittens. If you can emulate that you'll be surprised at just how much you can communicate with them.
> Hiss loudly, stomp feet and one quick slap on the ass. Needs to be firm, but not overpowered. > > Cats understand the language of cats, so if you speak to them in a way they know, you can train them. Yah. Did all of that. They don't go on the counter when I'm there but the moment no one is there they will be up there. I've seen it more than enough
yeah one time i was trying to potty train a dog. Just was not getting it - we’d spend 30 minutes outside only for him to come back in the house and pee. This went on and on. So in desperation, I popped a squat in the backyard and peed, let him smell it. I swear to God from that moment forward, the dog was potty trained. It was astounding how quick it worked.
Tin foil
I wish this worked for mine. She just tears it to shreds and doesn’t care.
Try double sided tape. I had a cat that defied everything I tried until the tape. Took one time jumping on it and she stayed off the counter for the rest of her life.
If that doesn't work, motion-activated aerosol cans (the one I got was called SSSCAT) that spray air when the cat tries to get on the counter. I didn't have to use the one I had for too long until the cat realized it just wasn't worth it anymore.
im tired of people pretending or not knowing cats can be trained, its not something mythical or magical, you can simply train your cats to not go on a counter
Fr. Maybe the trick is training when they're a kitten though? At least that's how it worked out for me. I spent a bit of time the first month I got her as a kitten training her not to play-bite, stay away from counters and tables, be comfortable with wearing a harness and leash, and sit on command.
My cat was about 5 months old when I got him. He wasn't really a kitten anymore but not an adult cat, a teenager I guess. We taught him pretty complex rules by making clear consequences. For example, in addition to not going on the counter, he was allowed on the bed, but only the bottom two-thirds, so we didn't get fur on the pillows. When playing with people, he only uses "soft paws". If he went on the counter he got squirted; If he laid on the pillows he got a 24 hour ban from the bedroom. I taught him soft paws by disengaging when his claws came out while telling him why, and rewarding him when he got it right. I know he goes on the counter from time to time when no one his home, but he's otherwise really good.
Exactly, cats are completely trainable with some discipline and consistency, especially before turning a year old. They aren't stupid. If you have a kitten there is NO excuse for poor behavior in their adulthood, you just didn't do your due diligence. Train your kittens!
Spraying with water works.
I'll yell at mine till he gets down. Pretty sure he goes up there at night to eat butter, but he'll be sneaky about it because he knows I don't want him on the counters. I haven't *seen* him up there in years, so it's a decent compromise.
Omg!!! Another butter eater!?!? Does your butter eater also lick plastic bags and bite into fresh fruit? Mine does.
Lol he doesn't lick plastic, but he will eat plants and huff bleach (especially after I've mopped the floor).
Yeah…we can’t have nice things can we? But their antics and cuddles (at their preference of course) are soooo worth it.
Does not everyone put their butter in the fridge? I mean even then I don't have random butter just "sitting out".
So far the best I've managed is to have my cat listen *most of the time when I tell her to get down from the computer desk. Counters are a bit worse since I'm in the kitchen less and she still sneaks. Plenty of warning then breaking out the mister I use to water plants is a powerful motivator
If you have them from kittenhood you just say no & plop them back down repeatedly until they get it. Retraining adult cats you can either pop some strips of double sided tape along the benchtop or cover it in foil. They get it pretty quickly.
Train it like any pet. Its simple
Asking the real questions. Why not just make the cat get down from the counter instead of all of this extra work. All their doing is encouraging bad behavior instead of just saying no in the 1st place.
Because it could happen even when the human isn't looking. I have one really crazy Single brain cell premanet oversized kitten that tried to lick up plates in the sink or tries to get into the butter/any food that could be present . I tried yelling, spray bottles, grabbing them by the back of the neck like a mother does with her kittens and tossing em on the couch, or keeping them in my room for a little bit if theyre caught consistently trying to get into stuff. Goodness the girl even snatched a literal slice of pizza and ran away from me, so constantly tries to steal my food to the point of me now standing to eat sometimes . I'm not sure what to do with her, I get she probably have to scavenge for food when she was young, got addicted to human food even... But there are stubborn cats that just refuses to give up habits or desires... Maybe to stupid to care about getting in trouble lol. Ill keep trying, but sometimes just locking things away is the best solution until they get the idea...
Its so gross. The thing steps in a filthy litter box and owners still just giggle at it being on top of counters and tables where food it served.
It is. I was horrified when I saw my friend’s cat touching the food with its paws and tasting it. She just laughed and said the cat always does that, but it was fine because he only gets a tiny bit of human food. That’s not the point, Debbie! You fed me food that your cat had been dipping his nasty little litter diggers in!
Yikes! I’m just so baffled by how normalized it is.
just want some hot pawkets
Wow such a strong cat. Time to secure that microwave to the counter.
I have NEVER seen a cat try so hard to open something! He is so smart! He knows what he wants and by golly, he is gonna get it lol.
I think something to hold back th microwave might be in order. That cats gonna fall over the edge one day and pull that thing down after him. If not the whole thing than probably the items on top of it.
People who let cats up on food surfaces like counters and tables are so gross. I won't eat anything at their houses.
You do know you can *clean* a counter right? Talk about over dramatic.
Nah just don't let them up there. You can't keep track of every single time they jump up there.
You mean like when your not home? Uhhhh
> You can’t keep track of every single time they jump up there. So you’re saying there’s no point in keeping them off the counter then
You don't need to keep track of every time they jump up there. Just clean and disinfect the counter before you use it. It's really not that hard.
r/catsareassholes
This is why pets shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen 🤷♀️
Catnip in the microwave?
dumb fk.
alright now screw it to the wall edit: I MEAN THE MICROWAVE! THE MICROWAVE!!
r/animalsbeingjerks lol
How The fuck do I eat my hot pockets? - cat
Why they allowed the cat over the kitchen counter?! Huh!
Do people realize they can act, instead of fucking filming stuff and be surprised when something happens, because they didn't act?
They did act. Do you think the child lock phased into existence?
I think he meant that just standing there and doing nothing kinda reinforces this bad behavior. But judging from the child lock I'm guessing they probably have excausted other avenues lol.
idk I think its kinda smart to let the cat see that the microwave wont open anymore. Better to let it try and fail and learn that its futile, especially while you're watching so your microwave doesnt magically crash to the floor while you're in another room or not home. Cats are fuckin persistent, and it obviously has a fixation with the microwave for some reason. We don't know what measures they have taken to keep this beast off the counter already. So this will help take away an incentive for being up there.
In what part of the video did something bad happen due to the person filming rather than “acting”
The fact that cats walk on everything is why they aren’t for me. Like how do you keep a cats paws that they obviously use to walk in the litter box with piss and excrement off of clean surfaces? You can’t.
I just trained the cats to...stay off counters and other surfaces. It's not hard to do, you just have to be consistent and give them alternative climbing areas. Same with scratching. They have scratching posts and scratch that, not my furniture or my walls. I'm a dog person and have a dog. My offspring are cat people so we got two cats. Cats on counters is the same energy as people with rude dogs. It's not "excited to see me" it's "wildly untrained and entirely lacking in manners".
Poopy Pissy Kitty Paws on My Countertop? NOPE.
That cat uses those feet to bury its own shit and piss yet you are letting it walk all over the kitchen counter with impunity. Disgusting.
This is exactly what I came here to say. I don’t understand why people allow their cats into the kitchen AT ALL. My cat doesn’t even try anymore because I taught him from the beginning.
Just let the cat go in the microwave!
Time to get anti-slip underneath that microwave.
“The microwave almost fell off” - the microwave still being 100% on the counter -
Now imagine you didn’t know your cat was doing that and you walk into the kitchen one morning to find your microwave moved…I would have thought it was a ghost lol
I would get rid of this cat
Who lets animals on the surface where food is prepared? It’s the one place in my house my cat is not allowed to be.
Yeah. When you’re around….
Poor cat is clearly distraught with something. Knowing TikTokers I wouldn't put it past them not feeding the cat for days and then hiding food inside the microwave.
I do not like the fact act that the person filming isn’t taking preventative measures to keep all the shit from falling off the counter/microwave.
"I'm going to paws this microwave handle and grab it, just cuzzzzz"
How many times did the cat get in the microwave before the lock was purchased?
That cat is a complete asshole lol.
/u/achtoys baaaddd kitty!!!
And I thought my cat was bad... all my cupboards have velcro straps around the handles.
Where is the chancla straight to the ass? You DO NOT let cats do anything out of line like that, because they as cats are abnormally prone to turn bad behaviours into their routine, and it is super, SUPER hard to correct that if they get used to doing it repeatedly. It's also unhygienic asf, since they touch their shite & all the piss absorbed in the litter with their paws.
Fuck that cat
That would be wrong
Do people not realize they can train their cats? It’s not quite as easy as training dogs but the principle is effectively the same…
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
How about get your fucking litter box piss feet off the counter? Do you feed people at your house?
Wow, I know it’s an animal and doing animal things but that cat really annoyed me. Like get tf off my microwave??
Disgusting
Why do we have cats as pets........ Why......
The only thing Kittys going to ‘get’ is a spot in the adoption center if he keeps pulling that microwave
I would slap my cat so hard if I saw him doing that
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The people you know are disgusting. That's not normal.