How do I keep my cat off of the table?

The water spraying proposed here will not work in this case (it works in a lot of cases but not this one) for one reason : Your cat will figure out that there is no water spray coming when you're not there so she will go when you're not there and then might try it when you're there just to see if, by any chance, the water spray is not there (cats don't associates the fact that you're the one activating the spray. They will only associate a movement you do or a sound preceding the spray but will not not know it's you activating it)

Your cat must know that the "punishment" is there even if you're not and it must always be there for 21 days. Here's the best way to keep your cat off the table for good. It takes a little work and your kitchen will look funny for 21 days but after that, you're done for life.

Take some aluminum plate and dispose them, face down on the table on strategic places where your cat climbs on the table. Buy very cheap mouse traps at a dollar store, charged them, put it upside down under the aluminum plate. Then take a tick table top cloth and cover everything with it.

By now you might understood that when your cat will climb on the table it will trigger the mouse trap that will produce an awfull noise with the alluminum plate. Be sure that the table cloth is tick so that there is no danger of findhing your cats with a table cloth attached to there tail with a mouse trap. But the fact that the mouse trap is under the alluminum plate when it goes off is security enough.

21 days later, I guarantee you that your cat will never go on the table again. It is very important to leave it there for 21 days even if your cat stops going after a week because it will try again within that period of time. IT takes 21 days for a behavior to get loose or to be permenant in a cat.

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How do I keep my cat off of the table?

It depends on how old the cat is. If it's a kitten you can do a spritz of water on it (just 1 or 2, nothing to soak it--they don't dry off well!) and set it on the ground. The kitten will learn.

If its a full grown cat, it's never going to learn. It's not that old cats do not have the capacity to learn; but, they're set in their ways and it is nigh impossible to get them to change.

Cats hate the smell of lemon. Try putting citrus smells around the table somehow.

Keep a squirt bottle filled with water near the table, and whenever your cat gets on the table, squirt it in the face with the water bottle. This is a good way to teach cats because they hate it but it doesn't hurt them.

Go to the local pet store They have sprays that you can use to train cats and dogs not go on tables etc. Bitter apple works the best

Water bottle worked for me. but you have to be consistent with it. everytime the cat gets on the table it needs a squirt.

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Why do you want to keep the cat off the table? Just give in and let it go on the table. What harm will it do? You are allowed to use the table so why shouldn't your cat?

I keep a squirt gun handy for the kittens when they do things like that. They will eventually realize that jumping up somewhere they shouldn't be will get them wet, which they normally do not like.