• VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    We don’t really care as long as they don’t get on the counter while we cook. You should be cleaning before and after cooking, so it’s not that big of a deal.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    Wash between your toes front and back to get all the litter dust out of them and we’ll talk

  • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.socialEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    This is probably the best use of this meme template that I’ve seen.

  • LillyPip@lemmy.caEnglish
    332·
    2 days ago

    I don’t plant my bare anus on my counter, so neither will you.

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        With the nozzle unscrewed almost all the way for that laser jet. I have to refill my bottle once a month with Furryosa. But after I get her, thirty seconds later, without fail, every single time, she comes and gets all affectionate making me feel guilty.

        She knows exactly what she’s doing, little emotional manipulative poopyhead!

        • seathru@quokk.auEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          I’ve found one of the rechargeable air dusters is far more effective. Not all cats are adverse to water, some even like it. But a blast of air will deter all but the stubbornest.

          • Osprey@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 day ago

            I just use my breath to blow forcefully at the cat’s face. Only works at close range of course. Indeed I have a cat that never minded getting wet, so water sprays don’t have any effect.

          • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
            51·
            18 hours ago

            I wonder if the engine whine has anything to do with it. I’ll try with my car vacuum later and report back, for science!

            Edit: reporting back! I know n=2≠a p value of .05. but my cats are afraid of the noise.

            • seathru@quokk.auEnglish
              6·
              2 days ago

              I think it’s more the feeling of the air blast. Mo will let me clean him with a vacuum, but runs away at a puff of air. And compressed air from a tank is just as effective. But I figured most people weren’t living in a perpetual remodel and didn’t have that in their kitchen.

              • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
                5·
                2 days ago

                Big lol. I am living in remodel purgatory. But just turning on the compressor is enough to get both of mine to run and hide.

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 days ago

            do those compressed air cans work? we’ve got a mean cat out in the yard and i am thinking of building and carrying around a little co2 can/straw dealie to psst at her from long range

            • seathru@quokk.auEnglish
              2·
              1 day ago

              Yeah, but their range might be too limited outside. For that, I would probably just keep a pump up garden sprayer or hose handy.

              • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
                2·
                1 day ago

                yeah, she’s a cat so by the time i can get to the hose and back she’s gone. we’re trying to remember where we put the old super soaker 50s (i think my little brother stole them) to keep in our cars and on my bike but so far no luck.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    “Change my mind”

    “Psych! Nothing will change my mind!”

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    counterpoint, the other counter is more fun and has the rock that you like to cuddle on it

    failing that, you will be punished most severely with the deadliest punishment of all: forehead kisses!

  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    21·
    1 day ago

    That’s the whole reason why we got a flat with an open kitchen and a high counter for our two derps to walk around.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’d like to have seen the look on your estate agent’s face the first time you turned a place down because the counters weren’t high enough for the furbabies 😁

      • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        1 day ago

        Rent prices: way to high Seeing the face of your estate agent after turning down a flat for not being cool enough for your cats: priceless

    • idunnololz@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      My cat once jumped on the counter when I was cutting raw chicken. He stole a piece and I just let him have it… He knows I’m powerless and my threats are empty T_T

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 days ago

        One time I was sitting in the living room. Kitchen is to my immediate left on the other side of the wall.

        I’m watching tv, and then from in the kitchen I hear a duck. QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK.

        I’m so confused. I don’t have a duck. Why is there randomly a duck in my kitchen at 2am???

        So I jump up, run into the kitchen where I see my cat who turns around like “OH HIIIIII!!!”

        No duck.

        So I start looking in cabnets. In the oven. In the fridge. I walked down the hall and checked the bathroom. I checked the closet.

        I looked everywhere for this duck. I’m not crazy. I heard a duck. It was very close, in the kitchen. I heard it. I know I heard it. Where did it come from??? Where did it go???

        Finally I gave up. My cat just looking at me losing my shit for an hour. Just looking at me like “You ok???”

        So finally I just sat back down on the couch and wondered if I was losing my mind.

        …never did find a duck.

        I know this doesn’t relate to your comment per se, but we’re sharing cat stories. My cat didn’t steal chicken. My cat stole sanity.

      • how_we_burned@lemmy.zip
        6·
        2 days ago

        Once my father was preparing a 15kg salmon for a big dinner party. The phone rang and he turned away for just a moment.

        Our three cats who had been strategically located around him used this moment to pounce. Working together they had leapt onto the bench and pulled it off.

        With a loud splat he came rushing back to find them merciless attacking the fish.

        (the meat with bite marks was strategically removed, and the cats rejoiced).

        The dog into trouble for not stopping the cats.

  • MaXimus421@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 day ago

    Can’t change your mind. I can definitely leave your ass out in the cold.