A question for cat people...be honest

My cats do not go on my counters or dining room table. They will sometimes lay on quilts or boxes left on the table, but they aren’t allowed on the table normally and never when we are eating.

I'm not sure how you could prevent a cat from going wherever he/she wants to go. I mean, obviously not while you're sitting eating at the table, or while you're cooking in the kitchen. But I would assume they go to both places when you're out of the house. 

I'm not fond of it but my Hubby enjoys having a cat watch him cook or wash dishes. I personally think it's because he can pretend to be talking to the cat instead of to himself.

But as for the sanitaryness of it, that doesn't bother me much.

Yeah, I eat off of plates, not the table itself.

Our cat never gets up on the kitchen counters (when we are home at least), and only very occasionally on the dining room table and then he's scooched off right away. All of our cats have always jumped up on the bathroom counter to drink from the faucet though.

ah, No, they are not allowed on the tables/counters. Do they still do it? oooh yes, they are cats. I just have to give them one look though and they jump down. Now when no ones home I just know they are thumbing their noses at us, and just walking all over everything.

My cat's food and water are on the vanity in my master bathroom, to keep the dogs out of it. She will lay on the counter or table in my scrapbook room and look out the window, but I've never seen her on the kitchen/dining room tables or counters.

NO, and they can be trained IF started early..

I am not a cat person but I find myself living with two cats now. I was originally repulsed by their constant jumping on the counters but at some point I realized I am not motivated enough to implement strategies to keep them from doing this. Cats just want to be high up.

So my compromise is to kick them off if they presume to jump up there while I'm eating, prepping food etc. And before I begin to prep food, I just wipe down the counter with cleaner. Our older cat has had his counter surfing curtailed by my liberal use of a spray bottle of water. The kitten is more food motivated and less susceptible to the spray bottle so she has been more of a challenge. I do what I can, and gain solace from the fact that the world is teeming with bacteria that we come in contact with on a daily basis.

We have 3 cats.

One of them LOVES the kitchen counters and if we leave the butter uncovered, she'll lick it. ALL of it... gone. LOL. She never goes on the table.

One of them LOVES to be on the kitchen table. She sleeps there. She's weird.

The other one refuses to leave the master bedroom unless he needs to use the litter box or eat. He's also weird.

Can’t trust my cat when we aren’t home....so I just make sure and clean the ocunters with a dilute bleach solution and rinse off before I cook

Are the people sitting naked on the counters? Then, I would say yes. But no, usually they have clothes on, so not a big deal. Shoes should never be on a counter.

I grew up with cats at my moms house , and had one for 16 years in my home. In our presence they were not interested in either the counters or table. But I don’t remember if they were semi-trained, or if we just didn’t keep food out for long enough.