Have a cat that won’t stay off your counters? I do. I finally got fed up with it enough to do something about it: scare the crap out of him with a motion-detecting blender (while recording the results for my own amusement, of course).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How-I-did-it instructions are included in the link.<\/p>\n
Of course, we now have empirical evidence that the number of times you must scare the crap out of a cat in order to modify its behavior is a minimum of 4.<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t be science without data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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