When I was setting the table for company, I placed a squirt water bottle by the table leg. The message to my then cat was to keep off. When I was not looking, she would knock the bottle over. Bubbles, don’t you think that this behavior is mean-spirited?
-Cat lover in Walnut Creek
Dear Cat Lover in Walnut Creek,
May I ask what the intention behind the squirt bottle was? Was it used to release spontaneous mini-showers onto your cat? My humans used to have such a device to keep me off of the table, but after a while, I got used to the cool spritzes, and the device lost its effectiveness.
That's the funny thing about humans: they have these tantalizingly scratch-able floor mats, but get mad when we scratch them! Or they have these high flat surfaces, just perfect for surveying our empire, but they spritz us when we ascend!
I doubt your cat's behavior was mean-spirited. It sounds like she simply wasn't able to stomach the spritzes. Gravity is also partly to blame here, by the way. Why humans keep anything on high surfaces astounds me. All that potential energy would drive any cat crazy.
Not sure if that helped...
XOXO,
Bubbles
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