Deterring cat from kitchen units

[LanguidLobster]

What on earth do you do?

Pretend you can't see them up there.

Wipe surface down every time before you use it.

Alonso, do not mock the afflicted!!

I don't like her in my eating space :(

Any success stories?

Or - take them down, every single time. A pain I know but they will get the message eventually. (Well mine did, but yours might be more stubborn!)

I gave up. I just wipe down.

Accept it is no longer YOUR surface it is your cats and you are being allowed to use it.

As you can tell I've given up on this too.

I gave up too. Yesterday discovered a kitten removing a bit of lettuce from a salad bowl on the kitchen table. We ate the salad - we are still alive.

We use a water sprayer & spray her every time she gets up there, she seems to have got the message quite quickly. I do suspect that as soon as we go out she is straight up there though

You need a Cat ssscat.

www.amazon.co.uk/PetSafe-Deterrent-Effective-Avoidance-Training/dp/B075GMTYQS?tag=mumsnetforum-21

We got one. Cat jumped up on worktop - it sprayed and lept off immediately. Cat tried again following night - same thing happened.

Never needed it again, worktop has been cat free ever since. Got it out again for the kittens and same procedure - they learned in 2 sprays.

Yes take them down every time while telling them off. If you see them thinking about it use same tone of voice. Use water sprayer.

Accept that if you leave something too tasty out they will still go up there.

Get a Persian. They don't climb!

Water spray. Also some Pet Behave Spray from Amazon which smells very citrony. I used to spray this all all round the kitchen table as a barrier line. We did it every time he was a kitten. Now we have come to an understanding whereby he probably still does it (judging from the scrabbling noises when he's not expecting me in the kitchen) but not directly in front of me.

That's the genius of the Cat sscat. Our cats had basically learnt not to do it when we were looking.

The ssscat taught them not to do it ever. We can hear when they jump up on the worktop from our bedroom so we know it stopped.

It's what cats do tbh and something you have to put up with when you decide to get a Cat mine actually understands "get down" and does it when I tell her too it doesn't stop her though!

One of our cats came to an arrangement with my Mum that he could sit on the very end of the countertop on about 6" square! If he moved off the spot he got dumped on the floor. I remember quite a few times when they would eyeball each other and agree terms.

Otherwise just keep taking her down or spraying her as others have suggested.

TheLongRider funny you should say that, I'm planning a full scale mission on the kitchen later and wanted to plonk cat just outside on a chair and look intensely at her at intervals during this process.

She smashed my 1890 teapot on the counter, it was so beautiful and lasted all that time until it encountered the cat's paw flicks. All glass/china now hastily into cupboards.

Need to procure something lemony.

I knew that the cats jumped up on to the worktops when we weren’t in the room, so I used it to test our new video monitor before DD was born. Took nearly a week to catch one, but as soon as he jumped up, I yelled ‘GET DOWN!’ via the intercom button. It took me a little while to get to the kitchen because I was too busy falling about laughing and he’d long scarpered through the cat flap by then.

Sadly, I can’t offer this as a permanent solution, it didn’t take long before he was at it again. I wipe my surfaces down, as suggested by everyone else!

Empty drink cans work. Line them up far enough away from the edge that your cat can't see them, but close enough so they go flying when she jumps up. You'll probably only need to do it a couple of times.

I thought I’d won this battle and that catface didn’t go on the worktops- he never does when I’m around anyway- that was until we had a particularly wet day and I came home to find little muddy cat paw prints everywhere. Busted! I now make sure I wipe down everything now before preparing food......