[nanci2539]

I am not a fan of water guns because in my experience (I had five cats, now four) they do most of their activities at night - I know this because I see paw prints on the surface of my cook top stove!

What works is aluminum foil - cats don't like walking on this. Another great invention, IMHO is the scat mat! It emits static electicity and once a cat steps on it, they get a static shock. Trust me, one time and they will never to go an area you don't want them in. But you need to keep it on the counter until they get the hint. After than, clean plastic mats work because they think it's a mat.

I have a friend that bangs two bowls (tin) together to keep her cats off places. Now all she does it pick up the bowls if her cats jump on a chair she's trying to protect, etc. But again, what they do at night while we're sleeping is another story.

The motion alarms don't work for my cats; I'll see my calico laying in front of it! The onlly thing that works for me, like I write, are the scat mats.