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December 1st, 2008
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If your cat is one that hops up on your kitchen counters as soon as you’re out of the room, then you have to make him really sorry he did that! A product called Sticky Paws does the trick anywhere you don’t want your kitty cat to put his grubby little feet. It is a wide, double-sided sticky tape that you can run around the outside edge of any counter or table where the cat has been jumping up. But most cats will jump back down off a counter or table if they feel that sticky tape beneath their paws – with any luck, that’s the last time you’ll see him try it. |
We used the doublesided tape that carpet layers use to tack down carpet edges. It’s muy sticky, and the cat *hated* it. Took about 3 or 4 weeks with the tape to break him of the habit. It only took a week with our first cat, but the 2nd one is quite stubborn.
THIS PRODUCT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA BUT ONE OF MY TWO CATS HAS A FEDISH WITH ANY TYPE OF TAPE AND I THINK IT IS THE GLUE THAT HE LIKES. I WISH I KNEW WHY HE LIKES THE GLUE SO MUCH I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED THIS BEFORE. INSTEAD OF DISLIKING THIS PRODUCT MY CAT WOULD GO CRAZY FOR IT. NOT FOR THIS HOUSE!
If you have glue-sniffers(?! who knows what attracts these wacky felines to the glue?!) then instead get a piece of the plastic carpet runner that has little prickly stubs on one side. Home Depot and similar stores sell it by the roll, you’d only need a wee bit because you can cut strips a couple of inches wide and tape them with the prickly side up alongside the edge of the counter. The result: the cat jumps up, lands on the prickers, jumps off just as quickly and doesn’t do it again.