Blooming Where I'm Planted!

Today I have a neat tip for all you cat owners out there. I adore my cats. Truly. But when we go to bed at night, they take it upon themselves to jump up on the counter and do whatever they want to. I am SO not down with this.

I know there are some of you out there who let your cats go wherever they want to, including the kitchen counter. My friend K is one of those people! *Points@K* I’m personally of the belief that they stand in poopy cat litter and therefore not on my kitchen counter tops. So, if you take no issue with licky marks in your butter, disregard what I’m about to say.

Last night I was suddenly struck by a solution to my dilemma. Very suddenly. It jumped right into my head from nowhere. I hadn’t even been thinking about that silly cat, but I got up and went immediately to the kitchen to set my plan into motion.

Hubby came around the corner and saw what I was doing, and with a puzzled look asked, “What the HELL are you doing?”

I took out 2 shallow cookie sheet/baking pans and 2 cake pan lids and arranged them end to end along the part of the counter top where I know the cat jumps up. My kitchen isn’t that big, so it wasn’t hard to figure out. It’s also the area where I most often find things upside down on the floor in the morning.

Then, I filled each, low, shallow vessel to the very top with cold water, and pushed them back just far enough as to be out of sight from the floor, but close enough to the front that there’s no way to avoid landing with at least a foot or two in a wet spot.

I swear, I’ve never been more proud of myself. LOL And I don’t think that cat has ever liked me less :) About 20 minutes after we were in bed last night, we heard a sudden clang and then what I can only assume was a very wet, startled and angry cat running through the house, ironically, as though her tail was on fire.

I don’t know if we’ll have a repeat or not, but I intend to put everything back out, every night for at least a few more days. *insert evil laugh*

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