Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for April 20, 2015

Clap your hands, yell Shoo, and Presto a no cat counter!(until they get up on the counter again)

The people need better counter-measures.

There nothing wrong with a little cat hair anywhere; just brush their hair and they will go away.

That’s why we only have two cats.

Once you’ve squirted them enough, the cats know when the squirt bottle is pointed at them that it is time to go somewhere else.

It still doesn’t explain why they are ‘hogging’ the counter.

The reason they don’t want you on the counter is because they have baby food and baby milk on the counter, and it is very tasty.

What’s on that coffee cup, anyway? An australopithecine skull?

Have the people not learned?It’s a cat world and we are allowed the joy of being in their presence.Really Lupin and company must set up a program on Breaking Cat New to educate them. Puck could be Mr. Rodgers.

Double sided tape works well. Cats don’t like it on their feet and you don’t have to be home to enforce the rules. My cats have always loved water so squirts bottles didn’t work anyway. Popping balloons when they get on the counter works too.

Puck Climbing up on counter with only one back leg is absolutely precious, & pure grit!

So funny and typical cat! They know they aren’t supposed to be there and keep jumping up. I love how Puck says "What?’ – like he is totally innocent.

They’re triple teaming him LOL!

Open the silverware drawer and start rattling the utensils. The Cats will not only scat out of the kitchen, but they will fluff and puff in the most amazing way.

My cats know better than to get on the kitchen counters when I am anywhere that I can see them.

The best way to keep cats off counters is to put books or magazines on the edges of them slightly hanging off. This way when the cat attempts to jump on the counter the magazine will fall startling the cat and proving that the edge is unstable. It is the only way I have found that works when you aren’t home. After about a week you don’t have to do it anymore since the cat has learned by then that the edges of the counter are unstable for jumping on.

I love Elvis’ furrowed brow and annoyed twitchy-tail in the last panel, when he thinks he’s triumphed over the man.. LOVE this strip! and BTW…this is the reason we don’t have cats. Well, this and litter boxes.

I guess I am lucky. Out of all the cats I have shared my life with over the years, only one ever got on the counter. For some reason, the counter never held a fascination for them. Partly because I never have anything on the counter that interests them. Never found evidence of them getting up there when I was gone either. Guess I have a very boring kitchen.

Our cats eat on the counter and top of the fridge. They have to, the dogs would get their food if you fed them on the floor.

LOL “Why hello, I notice you only have 2 arms”