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I like your tip of 'Never let cat have freedom or peace on the counter', have ended up doing this (the intent will be more purposeful now thanks to you) for my

• hackeraccount 6y ago
  I remember when I was kid coming home and seeing our cat at the top of the stairs. I walked up, picked him up and put him at the bottom of the stairs. He then went back up the stairs and sat down. I wondered how often I could do that until he just walked away. I still wonder about that because the answer seemed to be that he was a hell of a lot more persistent then I was at 10 or however old I was. I wouldn't say I was or am an expert at feline body language but the odd thing to my mind (then and now) was that he never seemed particularly annoyed. As a side note - I've read that the common idea that angry cats swish their tails back and forth isn't exactly true. Cat - from what I read - do that when they're uncertain. Fight or flight. Or if you see a cat before an open door on a rainy day. They want to be outside but they don't want to be wet. The thing I read was that the emotion manifested itself as a physical response to being unbalanced. Like a cat using it's tails as a counter when it's a precarious spot. It seemed - and seems - a fascinating insight into an animals mind though I have no idea if there's any truth to it.