Mackenzie Click-Mickelson
Chugging along the path of life
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- Oct 23, 2015
Ah I see.Don't want kitten on dining rm chairs because then he could get on the table.
Well for me my cat is welcome to the chairs of the kitchen table and the dining room table just not the actual tables.
When he was a kitten we just made sure he knew we didn't like him getting up onto the dining room and kitchen table (he didn't normally get on the kitchen countertops but when he did we let him know that wasn't an ok spot).
Whenever we found him on the tables themselves we made a specific noise that he knew meant no (it's hard to describe it lol) and told him no and started to get up. Most times he would get off immediately and the times he didn't we would pick him up and put him on the ground.
All cats are different for sure but ours pretty much has left the tables alone (with the exception of the end tables in the great room which because they are much lower to the ground he can use them). I know it's not 100% because I can't control what he does when we're gone but still.
I know we're lucky in that way. He'll sit on the counter height chairs for the kitchen island (as he likes to do a lot when we are doing things in the kitchen so he can look up at us) with no interest in climbing onto the island. He will sit on the dining room chairs and the kitchen chairs and not go onto the tables.
Whatever you do be consistent about it though. My mother-in-law didn't have a problem with the cats being on the kitchen table for years and when they only had 2 cats their food dish was on the kitchen countertops at the end. All of a sudden she decided she didn't want them on the kitchen countertops (the food got put down on the ground when she got more cats) and doesn't want them on the kitchen table...well it's confusing to them to say the least because one day it was ok and the next it wasn't.
I did think about double sided tape as another poster mentioned but if it's chairs you use on a consistent basis I'm not sure that would work if your cat doesn't see and have the ability to put their paw up on the chair to feel the tape. Guess that depends on how long you end up using the double sided tape.