Do your cats get on the kitchen table?

[raccoon]

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, if they do.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. No, but sometimes when I walk toward the kitchen ...

... I hear what sounds like paws hitting the kitchen floor.

Odd.

[Laffy Kat]

2. Of course. Mine have always sat in the middle of the table while we eat.

We only act horrified by this when there is company over for dinner.

[Arugula Latte]

7. I just posted something similar, before I saw your post.

Acting skills come in handy!

[NJCher]

32. Now I know why you & fizzgig hit it off

Similar sense of humor.


Cher

[Avalux]

3. The table itself is of no interest apparently.

However if I happen to lay a freshly painted canvas there, or something else she can mess up, she can't resist plopping herself right in the middle of it while giving me a look that says "I dare you to make me move".

[LunaSea]

5. Cat assisted art

Some folks make it work for them.
Illustrator Roger Dean got some assistance from his cat in this famous album cover painting

He didn't intend to add clouds, until the cat suggested them by strolling over the board.

[Avalux]

10. Hey you're giving me ideas!!

Maybe I can make it work for me. Of course if she knows what I'm up to, she may stop doing it.

[alarimer]

4. Yes.

He owns it, just like everything else in the house. I've given up trying to keep him off it.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Tables, counters, wherever they want.

Sometimes I have to pretend I'm surprised when it happens when someone is over. I should win an Oscar for acting.

[Laffy Kat]

8. HA! My children learned young...

To feign shock and disgust when company was present. It was sort of an unacknowledged understanding.

[Arugula Latte]

11. Yes, mine too. We can train our kids, but we can't train our kitty kids!

Not that I really try ...

[oldandhappy]

9. yes, but not on the counters

She gets up on most everything. Likes to be up high.

[haele]

12. There is no table in the kitchen.

However, I have caught them using the stove counter on their way up to the shelves over the refrigerator. They love to go on top of the refrigerator at night and look down over their food dishes, the dining room and the hallway to our bedroom at night. Since I don't keep food on the counters, and they're rather, err, cluttered with utensils and small appliances, there's not a lot of room for kitties.

I have caught them on the dining room table, and when I've got my laptop on the table to do work, they're hanging around next to me.
That's why I always have a ratty old canvas tablecloth when we're not eating there on it, or when I'm not using it as a food-prep area.

Haele

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. Cats? On the kitchen table? Quelle horreur!

That would never happen at my house.

[hopemountain]

14. …..

oh hellza noz! noz kitteh litter dust dosteh gatherz on famileez tabolz…ebers

[avebury]

15. Not the kitchen table but another table.

That was the only way that my indoor cats (when they were alive) could get enough food to eat. If I had put their dishes on the floor, the dogs would have chowed down on it in seconds. My femaile cat was such a tiny thing that I would have done anything to get her to eat. She always looked like the poster cat for Eithiopian cats while my male cat never found of a meal he would not eat. I was the epitomy of the helicopter parent of my female cat. She lived to the estimated age of 19 which was amazing considering the fact that she seemed to eat so little.

[Laffy Kat]

28. According to my vet, whom I trust...

Nourished yet SKINNY dogs and cats live longer and are generally healthier than their "overly nourished" cohorts. Of course, trying to convince your pets of that is another thing. Same with people, really.

[TexasTowelie]

16. Tables, counters, the top of refrigerators

and the top shelf of my bedroom when I lived in Brenham.

[NJCher]

33. how?

How did that kitty get up there? Crawl up the curtain?


Cher

[TexasTowelie]

38. The window ledge was only a few inches below the bottom shelf and there was a little extra room

on the shelf with the glassware. However, I don't know how she managed to get all the way to the top shelf. She always tried to get to the highest point of a room no matter what room it was.

[blogslut]

17. No kitchen table.

But she has a cat grass issue. Even though I grow delicious cat grass for her and keep it right by her floor-level scratchy thing, she is constantly eying my pointy-leafed silk plants because fuck me, that's why. If she's in the mood, she'll jump up to wherever the silk plants are and chew on the tips.

I finally resorted to making her a special faux grass planter thingy out of corn husk, tucked into a toilet paper tube. When she chews the pointy bits off, I make a new one.

I don't get her. She still nibbles the real cat grass but also wants the fake stuff. What's even weirder is when I go outside, yank some grass from the courtyard and bring it back in for her, she pounces on it like it's the greatest thing ever.

[Special Prosciuto]

18. My cats lose their flavor on the bedpost overnight.

[HeiressofBickworth]

19. Just one

Two with food dishes on the floor and one on the dining room table. Otherwise, one of them wouldn't get fed (gluttony on the part of the other two). The official purpose of the table seems to be collecting incoming mail, so there's no problem with one of the kitties being fed there.

[LoveMyCali]

20. One of my sisters used to insist

that her cat never got on the table, then we found a paw print in the butter.

[LisaL]

21. Never.

[Snobblevitch]

22. I have never seen our cat on the kitchen counter.

I have caught her on the table. When she is caught, she jumps down. The only time I have seen her on the twble is if there is a cup of water on the table. I use a 16ounce plastic cup fir ice water. It sits on a side table in the family room. If I leave the room, she sometimes sticks her face into it. If the cup is on the kitchen table, she can't help herself, she just has to sticker face into the cup. The funniest thing was one time there was almost no water in the cup. She put her head so far down the cup that it got stuck on her head. She ran past me with the cup on her head, hit the wall, and it came off. She pretended nothing happened (kind of like when you stumble on nothing in a store, look around to see if anyone saw you, and walk on like it didn't happen).

[NJCher]

34. never-ending source of entertainment

Cher

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. Right after she leaves the cat box. n/t

[NV Whino]

24. I don't have a kitchen table

I have a cat table. I eat in the living room.

[Grammy23]

25. One cat we had preferred the counter tops.

She would hop up on the edge next to the sink and wait patiently for someone to turn on the faucet so she could get a drink of water. She had water in a bowl on the floor but she was more inclined to get a fresh drink from the faucet. She also had a taste for butter and would get in a chair so she could reach the butter on the table. We could always tell she had been sampling the butter because of the rough prints from her tongue that she left in the stick of butter. She has been gone since 1979 or so and I still miss our pretty, sleek baby named Mama Sita. She was coal black with a tiny white spot near her throat and she had lovely green eyes. A real beauty.

[raccoon]

26. My cat likes to drink from the bathroom sink faucet. I think they instinctively know that running

water is healthier than stagnant water.

[NJCher]

35. ehhh, not so sure about that

My vet told me to always make sure my cats have plenty of water because cats tend not to drink as much as dogs. That means that as they age, their kidneys are the first to go, so I make sure to have a bowl of water at each spot where a cat feeds (2 places). Also outdoors, if my one indoor/outdoor cat is outside.

So all this nice clean water and I catch her sipping from a mud puddle.


Cher

[fizzgig]

27. we don't have a kitchen table

but dad does and it's kitty territory.

the only place in the house that isn't kitty territory is the kitchen counters and we've never had any problems with anyone getting up there.

[seveneyes]

29. They only did it once

[mulsh]

30. once she decided to stay with us Rrrowwwfff grew increasingly comfortable. I started sharing the

milk from my morning cereal with her. About four months after she adopted us I was having a bowl of granola. She hopped up on the table, looked at me then did a face plant in the opposite side of the bowl. She had a little milk then went into the living room. She did this a few times in the four years she was with us. I didn't mind. It was the only time she got on any of the tables. It was better than the 3:30 am fur face treatment. she did that more often.

She had obviously been some other human's companion. No one responded to the flyers we posted through out the neighborhood, the three local vet offices never turned up any human. She was a house guest, not our pet.

[TuxedoKat]

31. The response

if this happens when company is over is to say "Oh, what's happening today! He/she has never done this before!"


(I'm not the original author of this and can't remember where I read it)

[NJCher]

36. yes, with a qualifier

OK, we have some fairly elaborate meals around here, with my spouse being in the gourmet food field 'n all. Plus company comes over frequently, but our usual company has cats in their own home, so they understand.

So yes, they will jump up on the table, but usually only after we're finished and they think it's time for some attention to be paid to them.

I make a big deal out of washing the table before every meal, and I figure that's the way to get around that issue!


Cher

[Glassunion]

37. That's nothing...

On a technicality I do not have a kitchen table... But, dining room table, kitchen counters, bathroom cabinets, birdcage, etc...

But the worst is the aptly named Loki, likes to hang out in sinks...