I have only one simple rule for my cats. [View all]

They can go anywhere they want, basically do anything they want, but they are not allowed on the kitchen counters or the dining room table EVER and I don't play. One day, my previous cat, Boots, was lying on the dining room table and I walked by and didn't see her so she had the audacity to meow as if to say "Look where I am!" I said what I always say "Have you lost your mind? GET DOWN NOW!" and it was always my tone of voice that compelled her to get down immediately. But, of course, being a cat, she had to test me from time to time.

Imagine my shock and utter dismay when I came home from work one day and found Martini sitting in the dish drainer! I almost had a stroke. I knew she jumped up on the stove behind my back because I occasionally found black fur on it, but I never knew she made herself at home in the dish drainer where I put my dishes to dry! So I went to Target and got a plastic storage bin and now I keep it over the dish drainer. She hasn't jumped up there in years (as far as I know) but I still keep it there just in case.