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Yep. Their favorites are water glasses and plants. The worst part is when they look me in the eye and do it. UGH! I swear, they plot against us! When we spray, they look at us like we're stupid, so I hope someone else has some insight!
This happens at my house too. My bedroom is the only room that our cat isn't allowed in. That being said, all other rooms in my apartment are "cat proofed" We have a large bookcase with four large shelves, and she can't quite get to the top shelf, all breakables are there. There are picture frames on the other shelves that she knocks down but she's never broken them. She did knock down a ceramic cup off the bathroom counter and broke it though.
Like you, she isn't too phased by the water. she doesn't like it, and if you point it at her she will get down, but when we aren't around or we haven't pointed it at her she still does things she's not supposed to. The water hasn't taught her not to do it at all.
I'd like to see the responses you get, sorry I wasn't much help.
Luckily, our cats don't typically knock stuff over.
My cat katie (who I've had forever) has never been much of a jumper or climber. She is happy to hang out on the floor or couch.
My husbands cat is a lot younger. He ALWAYS has to be sitting on anything that is not the floor. It drives me insane because I'm not used to hyper cats.
I really think it's part of the cat's personality... I have a friend who's cat is just a mischief-maker, and is always getting into something. Her other 2 cats are perfect little angels. It all depends on the cat.
Oh that reminds me! He also knocked one of DH's expensive Riedel wine glasses off the counter. It's a wonder we still have a cat!
At least we don't have any plants... Have they ever gone to the bathroom in one of your plants? We had to get rid of our Christmas tree because the kitty peed on it! 
Nope. They haven't potty'd in one! Thank goodness. My Aloe vera would hate me! That's also why we currently use a fake-o x-mas tree. Though, I do miss the real ones!
my cats are the same way. they once knocked over my burberry perfume that i bought in London and it broke. I was so pissed. Cats will be cats!
My friend gave me a great suggestion for this that actually works.
Use double sided packing tape and put it on the areas that they are supposed to jump- they'll quickly get the hint that they shouldn't be there and furthermore, they don't associate the water spray with you vs. location.
Works so far for us... now if only I can get one of them to stop pee-ing on my leather chair. :( any tips for that? As you can tell, I inherited two step-cats with my fiance. lol, but I love 'em.
We recently adopted the most mischievious cat I've ever had in my life! (He is so cute, though!) Every morning, something's out of place. This morning: "Honey, why is there a cherry tomato on the living room floor?" Not even joking.
We use double sided tape on the surfaces we don't want him to scratch (the couch), and Petco sells some glorified double-stick tape specifically for that. As for the bigger surfaces (counters, tables, etc.) we've tried aluminum foil. It's not 100% fool proof, but it's the best thing we've found so far. He doesn't like the sound it makes when he jumps on it. According to the cat book we have, you have to be diligent with it, so that if every time he jumps up, he doesn't like it, after a while he just won't try it anymore. So far, it's better than the blank stare he gives me when I try to spray him with water!
Hope this helps someone; I'm anxious to see if anyone comes up with some better ideas!
My one cat used to sit on my dresser and knock off my nail polish just to watch it fall. She would shove it over with her paw and then stare at it on the floor.
You can also put contact paper down to keep them from jumping on things. Really, anything that's sticky. I heard of one lady that poured syrup all over her counters, but that's pretty gross.
Eek!
It makes sense that the sticky tape, tin foil and pepper would work, but wouldn't that be doing a huge disservice to the appearance of your house?! I can't imagine trying to relax on the couch in the evening and putting my arm on sticky tape lol.
Yes, they won't stop doing it unless there is something physical and immediate bugging them when they try. We just catproofed the house for the most part so we don't have to deal with it - neither of us likes knick knacks. But the few things that are out get batted down all the time! Even food in the pantry, shelves, etc.
Oh wow, syrup?! I would think that would be a sticky mess!
I'll have to try the foil trick. We have double stick tape on the corners of our furniture and I tried it on our counter but he just jumps farther. So unless i cover the whole surface in tape it doesn't really work....
my cat does it at night when she wants food or to be let out. She knows it annoys me and she def does it on purpose! she also prints/ copies things since she found the button so now we have to unplug the printer at night or she wastes all the ink!
If you put empty pop cans with pennies in them on top of the tinfoil then when the cat jumps up, the whole thing makes a bunch of noise and they don't like it. It looks silly, but most cats only need to do it once or twice to get the idea. Plus it happens whether you are around or not (otherwise they just learn not to do it in front of you).
If they are knocking things off by accident, secure them with a little putty or double sided tape. If they are knocking stuff off just to watch it fall, they are likely bored and need more to do! Feed them with a dish that makes them work for their food (http://www.amazon.com/Smartcat-Tiger-Portion-Control-Placemat/dp/B002VH1EZA) or a treatball that dispenses food as they play, get them an outdoor birdfeeder to watch, or a cat tree to climb on. Cats love to be up high, and providing them a place to go up may be better than letting them find their own.
Spray plants and other greenery with Bitter Apple spray to make them taste bad. If you have floor plants, cover the dirt with large decorative river rocks. You can easily water through the rocks but it makes it less tempting to dig in. Lily and azalia plants are VERY toxic and should not be around cats.
Double sided tape is okay, but be careful with contact paper- it may end up stuck to the cat and needing to be shaved off- I've seen it happen!
For the chair pee-er: there should be 1 more litterbox than the number of cats in the household, unscented litter, no liners, box should be at least 1 and 1/2 the length of the cats body (many large cats need to use a storage box), scooped at least daily. And any cat who suddenly starts peeing out of the box should have a vet checkup and urinalysis as it is a big sign of a urinary tract infection or urinary crystals.
Oh the joys of feline ownership!! I adopted my little baby at 6 months old.. her shelter card said "previous owner got sick", but I think they just couldn't handle how crazy she is!! She knocks over EVERYTHING and steals anything she can get in her mouth. Those sticky tape and foil ideas are good, but I think mine is too dumb to be deterred! The best was when we found her in my FI's bathroom on the sink CHEWING on the bristles of his toothbrush.. FI was not pleased, but I was dying of laughter on the inside :) Needless to say I have no advice, just love them and hope they eventually grow out of it!
Get a cat tree.
Besides your little problem is good prep for kids!
I have a really beautiful Italian leather sofa and they have absolutely destroyed it. It was only here six months before they were and we had to cover it in blankets and sheets to try to protect it but it always slips about and there are so many scratch marks on it!
They have knocked over wine glasses onto a cream rug and broken others and one loves to pull at a loose board on the floor even though we nail it back down every week, they found my graduation photographs and now there are holes all around the edges, they have stashed my stapler behind the sofa and who knows what else that I can't get to without moving the whole (heavy) thing, they climb the curtains.They completely ruined our artificial Christmas tree by climbing into it and bending all the branches everywhere and knocking all the decorations off.
They have never scratched us in malice but we are always covered with scratches from them just scrabbling about over us.
Little monsters!
But I love them :3
I'm glad my cat is not like this for the most part. He knows I would whoop his ass if he knocked over anything of mine! :)
Thanks edgy! That is some great advice! I will definitely have to try anchoring things down so they can't be knocked over. Our kitty just likes to watch things fall. He also likes to chew on things. Our apartment is kitty proofed but it just looks so plain! I really want to decorate the shelves and what not.
Not anymore, but when I lived in an apartment he would get grouchy sometimes when I wouldn't let him out of the bedroom, and he'd look right at me and slide my keys off the dresser onto the floor. Then my wallet, then my cell phone, usually going for noisiest stuff first, but always stuff that I would be very upset to have misplaced later. Evil.
For people having trouble with cat clawing, the nail grinders you see advertised are pretty quick to use and they make it hard for the cat to do much damage. The ads completely lie about how much the animal will love and willingly accept the nail-grinder, but if you can immobilize him it only takes about two minutes. The claws grind down very quickly since cats' claws are so thin.
I've used foil before for bathroom problems. When my kitten was really small he sometimes enjoyed peeing more on the couch than in his litter box. The foil really worked in terms of making him avoid certain areas. In terms of knocking things over - I've had to kitty-proof a lot since the younger cat is a jumper!!! I put most breakables in my room where the cats aren't allowed, or on top of the fridge where they can't reach.
I think itmight depend on your cat's agility. We have a large older cat who can silently jump onto anything and never makes a sound but our one year old, though small and slight, is clumsy and does knock stuff over ALL day and ALL night. We tried water bottles too but they didn't work. Aside from having to kitten proof our home, we liken it to practice for a baby, we have this new tone of voice we talk to him in, ok, yell, when he's doing something he's not supposed to. He knows the tone, doesn't matter what we're saying. Usually we just say his name, doens't even have to be loud.
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Do your cats jump on things and knock stuff over? My cat does this all the time! It is so annoying! We have a bookshelf in our bedroom and I would really like to put some pictures or candles or something on the top 2 shelves and have books on the bottom 2, but anytime I put something up there our cat knocks it down! We also have a hutch on our computer desk in our front room that I would like to put something on but he likes to get up there too.
Has anyone else dealt with this? We have tried to spray him with a water bottle but it doesn't phase him at all. I have also tried coins in a can but it doesn't really work... Suggestions would be greatly appreciated!