How do I keep kittens from jumping on my end tables?
Sara asked:
I have 2 female 15 weeks old kittens. They are allowed to jump on the furniture and such but we have an end table that they like to jump on and we don’t want them up there. We can prevent it during the day, with a spray bottle, but we can’t do anything about it at night when we are asleep. Is there anything I can use or put on it to stop them from jumping on it? The top of the end table is glass also. Thanks for any help I can get!
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I have 2 female 15 weeks old kittens. They are allowed to jump on the furniture and such but we have an end table that they like to jump on and we don’t want them up there. We can prevent it during the day, with a spray bottle, but we can’t do anything about it at night when we are asleep. Is there anything I can use or put on it to stop them from jumping on it? The top of the end table is glass also. Thanks for any help I can get!
March 16th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Put them in a carrier at nite or lock them in the bathroom or something… not to sure what else to do
March 18th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Everytime they jump on the table, squirt them with a water bottle, they’ll evetually learn, it’s effective
March 20th, 2009 at 1:37 am
take a rolled up news paper and whack the crap out of them when they jump up on them the next time also try the boot mehod. hey it works and they get a free birds eye view of the room
March 20th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
you should put the kittens in a safe place until morning so that they will be away from the table untended.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:43 am
A water bottle is a great way to train a cat not to behave in ways that you don’t approve. Just don’t spay them in the face. There are also a variety of plants that most cats do not like to be near. These could help discourage your cat from jumping up on the tables and could also work when you aren’t home.
Cats will also avoid cayenne pepper, coffee grounds, pipe tobacco, lavender oil, lemon grass oil, citronella oil, eucalyptus oil and mustard oil. Orange and Lemon peels are supposed to work too. Maybe citrus cleaners?
Just be careful when choosing a plant. Scaredy Cat, Scardy Plant is actually a poisonous plant if your cat (or kids) should manage to eat it.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Please don’t use the spray bottle.
According to my Vet that is the worst thing to use to train to train a kitten.
If the kitten would get sprayed in the face it can cause an over abundance of yeast in their ears, eyes and nose which will result in a trip to the Vet for medication.
He also said that over time the cats won’t associate the spray bottle with the bad behavior they will associate it with you, which and lead to trust issue down the road.
He said the best thing to do…and it works like a charm is…everytime you see the kittens on the coffee table clap your hands and say “NO” very loudly and firmly.
Or instead of clapping your hands get a can and put pennies in it and shake that before telling them no.
Good luck with your kittens.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:47 am
Two things you can do.
Get a few bottles and fill them with tap water and put them along the table to make sure they don’t jump up when you are not around. Kittens don’t like the reflection of the water bottles and that will definitely stop them jumping on the table.
The second thing you can do is to get some sticky tape and put long the table where they are likely to jump on up the table. make sure the sticky is on top and when they jump on the tape, they will not like sticky stuff on their little paws.
After a while they will get the message.
Good Luck..
March 29th, 2009 at 3:37 am
There are different ways to go about solving this problem:
1) Attach smartie tubes to their legs…then they won’t be jumping.
2) Grease your end tables with oil or butter…then they’ll slide right off again.
3) Keep them in a different room wehn you’re not around.
Hope this helps
^^
March 29th, 2009 at 11:53 am
very easy a water bottle filled with water and a tablespoon of vinegar.they hate it.
April 1st, 2009 at 12:40 am
spray bottle..squirt it at them…they will learn fast!