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[P5se Camelback]

My daughter use a squirt bottle of water when she taught her cats not to climb or scratch on the furniture and to use her words just before squeezing the bottle trigger- "NO" ...10 years later and these cats still don't climb on or scratch the furniture ...

I agree with this one ... it works. After getting divorced back in the '70's, I found my self with two all white, long haired Maine Coon cats, mother and son. I grew up with German Shepherds and was not at all into cats on counters or table or anywhere else, for that matter, where my food would being prepared or eaten. (I mean, those feet had walked in the cat box, for God's sake! ... EEeuuuuw!) I also had an abundance of plants, which I watered or misted daily. I somehow came into ownerhip of a "Brit made" plant mister - the kind you pump up and then the nozzel is adjustable from stream to very fine mist.

I filled it up with water, pumped it up about 10 or 12 times, set it to stream and when I saw them sitting, looking up, guaging the amount of effort necessary to just "arrive" at counter height (you cat owners know what I mean) I'd pick up the mister, and just as they left the ground, yell "NO!" and give then a good long burst of water! They would push off and right back to the floor.

You know ... after a couple of weeks I didn't have to worry about it any more.