We have a rule in our home. The cats can put their little butts wherever we put ours. So they know they're not supposed to be on the table, counters, desks, etc. They've been pretty good about it for the past two years. Then all of a sudden, when we build two nice computer desks and I set my computer up on top, Nym starts sleeping on it. It wouldn't be such a big deal if she wasn't the most awkward cat I've ever seen. I love her to death, and she has a great personality, but she has no common sense or coordination of any kind. All cats land on their feet, right? This one doesn't. Anyway, it would be annoying, but her getting up on my desk and other things wouldn't be so frustrating if she wasn't constantly knocking things over.
We came home one time to see everything had fallen off of my desk except for the monitor and computer itself. The poster above had been partially knocked down and the modem was in between the wall and desk. This makes me nervous. I have a very nice computer, and I'm sort of a gamer. I'd be very upset if it fell and anything broke. So we started locking our cats and all of their things in the back half of the apartment. I hate to do it, but it keeps her from destroying my computer and any more of my wine bottles.
But now she has an obsession with sleeping on top of everything, including my mini filing cabinet, which tends to have papers I haven't filed yet. They end up all over my floor. And my husband and I have a habit of putting the lid down on the toilet. She sleeps there, which would be fine...but one morning, I was half asleep and really had to go, so I pushed her off. Her response when she couldn't figure out how to get her feet back under her was to reach out with her claws. She sliced my hand up pretty bad, and I spent most of my work day with bandaids all over my fingers.
We're working on building the cats a little cat tower, but we have to wait until we have the house in a year, because our apartment is too small for one right now. Maybe this will help?
Anyway, some of these are simple fixes, like keeping the toilet lid up and not letting her in the living room/kitchen unless we're here to watch her, but she just finds other things to climb on. She NEVER sleeps on top of the things that are there for her to sleep on...like the couch, chest with the fluffy dog pillow on top or our bed. My main concern is that she might break more of our things or something very valuable, or she may even hurt herself, as hard as that is to believe. (Seriously, no coordination. I honestly didn't think a klutzy cat existed until I found her.) I'd love to know if anyone has any idea how to keep her off of certain things. We currently just gently push her off and say no very loudly. She knows she's done something, because she cowers when we start to approach her, but the genius doesn't even try to correct her mistake. I'm not really sure why she has started randomly doing this after two years of good behavior, but I'd like to fix it.
We came home one time to see everything had fallen off of my desk except for the monitor and computer itself. The poster above had been partially knocked down and the modem was in between the wall and desk. This makes me nervous. I have a very nice computer, and I'm sort of a gamer. I'd be very upset if it fell and anything broke. So we started locking our cats and all of their things in the back half of the apartment. I hate to do it, but it keeps her from destroying my computer and any more of my wine bottles.
But now she has an obsession with sleeping on top of everything, including my mini filing cabinet, which tends to have papers I haven't filed yet. They end up all over my floor. And my husband and I have a habit of putting the lid down on the toilet. She sleeps there, which would be fine...but one morning, I was half asleep and really had to go, so I pushed her off. Her response when she couldn't figure out how to get her feet back under her was to reach out with her claws. She sliced my hand up pretty bad, and I spent most of my work day with bandaids all over my fingers.
We're working on building the cats a little cat tower, but we have to wait until we have the house in a year, because our apartment is too small for one right now. Maybe this will help?
Anyway, some of these are simple fixes, like keeping the toilet lid up and not letting her in the living room/kitchen unless we're here to watch her, but she just finds other things to climb on. She NEVER sleeps on top of the things that are there for her to sleep on...like the couch, chest with the fluffy dog pillow on top or our bed. My main concern is that she might break more of our things or something very valuable, or she may even hurt herself, as hard as that is to believe. (Seriously, no coordination. I honestly didn't think a klutzy cat existed until I found her.) I'd love to know if anyone has any idea how to keep her off of certain things. We currently just gently push her off and say no very loudly. She knows she's done something, because she cowers when we start to approach her, but the genius doesn't even try to correct her mistake. I'm not really sure why she has started randomly doing this after two years of good behavior, but I'd like to fix it.