For the longest time now, our two cats have made it a habit to jump on everything. We fixed some of the problem by putting down double-sided tape on the kitchen counters and the furniture in our dining room, and we were thus treated to the sight of the cats running around with the tape stuck to their fur. A few weeks of that seemed to take care of their predilection to jump up on those counters and that furniture.
Recently we've noticed something more alarming, though. Our cats have learned to leap up onto the fireplace mantle, where our big-screen TV, and a lot of high-dollar electronics are stored. We learned this by finding them perched up there, and also by finding claw marks in the fabric covering of our speakers.
This will not do, considering how that stuff up there cost several hundred dollars and cannot be easily replaced if some curious cat decides to poke around a little too vigorously.
So. What can we do to keep our cats from jumping up there. There really isn't room for tape, and besides, we're afraid that if we put tape up there, they'll jump, get stuck, panic, and end up dumping close to a thousand dollars of electronics to the floor.
While we're at it, can anyone suggest a way to keep cats from chewing on wires. They're fond of our keyboard for all the wrong reasons. We made a citrus spray that was supposed to work, but did not.
Recently we've noticed something more alarming, though. Our cats have learned to leap up onto the fireplace mantle, where our big-screen TV, and a lot of high-dollar electronics are stored. We learned this by finding them perched up there, and also by finding claw marks in the fabric covering of our speakers.
This will not do, considering how that stuff up there cost several hundred dollars and cannot be easily replaced if some curious cat decides to poke around a little too vigorously.
So. What can we do to keep our cats from jumping up there. There really isn't room for tape, and besides, we're afraid that if we put tape up there, they'll jump, get stuck, panic, and end up dumping close to a thousand dollars of electronics to the floor.
While we're at it, can anyone suggest a way to keep cats from chewing on wires. They're fond of our keyboard for all the wrong reasons. We made a citrus spray that was supposed to work, but did not.
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