Cat owners

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He's also 12 but ignores us when we suggest he should stay nearer ground level! This is him on the summer house roof and the other pic is his small partner in crime relaxing on my cushion!

Gorgeous boy. That`s a pity Charleygirl, I`d love to see a pic of the famous Tara!

Tara my cat is a slimmer version of Bugsie. She is around 13, thinks and acts as though she is 3. I am technologically challenged so cannot put photos on GN.

Bugsie. Sorry, forgot to add to previous post.

Katek, he looks a bit like my Bugsie. No high life for him, this fence is about his limit, being 12 and a big fat lazy lump!

Awwww katek! Lovely boy.

Er......this is the big guy in his favourite spot-no curtains or chandeliers for him! Can be a bit unnerving when he suddenly lands with a less than graceful thud behind you!

I love my bengals shysal They've introduced me to all my neighbours (Ah, so that's where he lives!) & given me new phrases to say, like "Oh dear, it seems my cat has embarrassed me again".

Lucky you, Primrose. They are full of character aren't they? My 3 are pictured on my profile, but sadly down to only one now.

Shysal I have bengals too!

My Bengal cat loves to be up high. She dusts the top of the wardrobes for me. I had a photo of her up there with her leg in plaster, but can't locate it. How she managed that I don't know!

Mine are great climbers. I found the easiest thing to do was give them their own door climber - you hang it over the back of a door and they can climb up. It can look a bit strange with a cat peering over the top of a door but mine love it and it's stopped all the bookcase shenanigans.

Our current cats are sulking, due to the influx of three kittens...two are on top of the kitchen cupboards, one on the boiler, one between the doubleglazing, one under the garden table and one on the shed roof. The 3 kittens, aged 6 weeks,9 weeks and three months are disported variously on my bed, on top of the lounge bookshelf (don't know how she got there) and atop my wardrobe. Still, it makea a change from wearing them round my neck!

There is very little you can do with cats that jump and like to be up high. I have a cross bred Siamese who often prefers to sleep on the top of doors. My advice would be to ignore it and learn to live with it. He is built more like a kangaroo with the longest legs ever. He exits and enters the house through the upstairs bedroom window. I was always concerned that he would not be able to get back in. It is amazing to watch effort less!!!

Same way you got up, stooped, JUMP!

I had a Burmese once that loved the tops of tall cupboards etc. so either you empty the tops of the cupboards of things you don't want pushed off, or you go the other way to work and stack every available inch up there with things that won't get broken.

I'd opt for the first remedy, as knowing cats, if you block off the top of "his" cupboard he will just find another, or another annoying game.

Cats feel safer sleeping on high, quite naturally, as wolves and bears can't get at them up there.

Have you room to give him something he may climb? That might solve the problem.

Come Christmas I seriously suggest you tether the Christmas tree with guy ropes to two substantial pieces of furniture.

A tall old wooden step ladder was a constant source of delight to our cats when we lived in a flat. Now they have a garden full of trees, so they're all right, Jack!

I put baking tins round my kitchen work tops when my cat started jumping up, did it for few days, the clatter of them falling onto ceramic floor tiles soon put him off. He hasn't attempted anywhere else. He must be lazy like his owner!

Yes, jumped up from chair back !!!

Oliver Sprout scared the bejazus out of a local council candidate that I invited in to discuss policies at the last election, by suddenly leaping down from his (at that time) preferred snoozing spot on top of the fridge freezer.

Mind you, this is the cat that had perfected exiting the house via the bedroom window, then jumping onto the bit of sloping roof above the downstairs loo, then onto the roof of next doors camper van, until the day the camper van wasn't there.......

Is he actually on top of the door? Blimey.

How do I get down ??

Scratching my head as to where to put three photo frames, a clock and an art deco lady

A training film for the staff!

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shysal

A lot of cats do this, but not all.We had one that was a bit of a maniac and he more or less lived his life at head height or higher.He would also perch on top of open doors , snooze atop the piano, and sprawl atop any wardrobe.

If I were you I would put the cats where you DON'T want them to go ( having moved ornaments first). Cats like to rule and are contrary. If they think they HAVE to go there I bet you they won't do it after a few times.