Does anyone have any advice on how to stop her jumping up onto things, it's mainly the tv stand i don't like her jumping on to. She will either sit on top infront on the tv!!! grooming herself or jump on the shelves and try to chew the cables. I have tried squirting her with water. Sometimes all i have to do is pick up the spray bottle and she will jump off but other times i could spray her all day and it wouldn't bother her. Sometimes i will just tell her no and pick her up to get her off.

I have got a few books from the library and they seem to suggest it would be best to ignore what she's doing because by lifting her off or spraying her i am actually giving her attention and making her do it more.

Does anyone have any ideas about what is best to do?

She is almost 6 months now and i think if i don't get her to learn it's not acceptable now i never will.

Does anyone have any books on behaviour they would recommend because the ones i picked up from the library are not that great so i would appreciate a recommendation.

Distract her with a toy - throw a jingly ball or crinkly paper away from where she is so that she can chase it.

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To be honest ,you will have more chance knitting fog .I learned a long time ago just to accept that kittens/cats will go where they want,it is in their job description If Meeko goes somewhere I would rather he didnt I just remove him,no point in stressing about it ,he will just do it again anyway,I personally would not use a water spray .

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Well.. You cant stop her jumping on things she a little kitty it's what little kitties do !!! And they're very good at it too

My 6 month old kittens are exactly the same - windows, counters, cooker , tv stand, dressing table, dining table, bookcase - you name it, they'll jump on it.

I've learned to just deal with it (and bought some cooker top protectors!) and stopped stressing about it I just wipe down counters before I prepare food and it's fine. If they're on something that I don't want them to be on, I just take them down. Let's face it, they're probably climbing all over stuff when we're not around!

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Basil & Sybil

I some times watch my tv round the cat

She now wanders across the mantle piece and knocks the photos off. I generally mutter under my breath and wait until she gets off and put the pics back up again.

All my ornaments are in a glass fronted cabinet in another room and when she stands on my mini stereo and opens the lid, when she has moved I do some more muttering and put the lid back down.

I have had to put newspaper up my blocked chimney and the vase of dry plants is knocked over and played with quite often.

I give up!

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MY FAMILY

Caramel (ginger girl) Harry (oldest son) Nick (Youngest son)

my torre who is almost 5 months old likes to sit on top of my tv. last week he sat and watched 'one born every minute' upside down. he couldnt make out why the screaming of labour pains. it was funny

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hmmm you don't seem to have got the 'meaning of life' according to feline kind.

You can train a dog, you are its owner. A cat doesn't have an owner, it has staff. I always advertise kittens as 'looking for dedicated slaves', so prospective 'owners' have some idea of their future role in life LOL!

Thousands of years ago the Egyptians worshipped cats as Gods, The cats have neverforgotten!

Emma
Purindoors Birmans

Same here Izzy climbs on everything. Just sort of resigned to fact that it's just easier to remove her off something if we don't want her on it or think it be dangerous. We kept trying to keep her off the kitchen worktops until one day we came back from shopping and she was laid on one of them asleep carnt stop her when where out so as long as she keeps away when we are cooking we let her be.
Although its a real pain now she's figured out how to press buttons on the sky box:
Hoppy