Hi friends!~
I would love to make one but my cats are SO NAUGHTY!!
If I put fabric on the ceiling I swear they'd find a way to lie on it.
With all the tablerunners I've seen and all the cat owners there has to be someone besides me with this concern.
Thanks :D

My cat isn't allowed on the eating table or kitchen counters but he'll lay on the coffee table if a runner is on that. Or on top of any fabric in my sewing room, usually the fabric I'm using right then.

If you make a special place for them to lay they will leave the others alone; at least mine do.

No cats at the moment, but mine were never allowed on the tables. One calico, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, took exception to that rule when I was cutting out any apparel pattern. The tissue was just fascinating to her. I always told her if she got a paw cut, she was responsible. I think the Siamese had the same issue.

Sammicat used the server in the dining room to rest from playing with my Siberian/wolf, but it was only used on holidays and I always scrubbed it first. He was never on the tables or counters.

Cats are trainable - they just pretend they aren't. I had one that would ask to go upstairs. If I said "No, the baby is sleeping", he sat down and waited.

Your cats are good. I have made special places for them, bought special beds for them and my cats will lay on the special place AND on any fabric they can find. I've even caught them lay on a 6" square block that had mistakenly dropped on the floor!

Mine love table runners AND placemants!

Make a special place for your cats and that's where they will lay -- when you are home. As soon as you leave, they will do whatever they please. :D :D :D

I just change the tablerunner when we are using the table. Love table mats...just throw them in the washer...Its also a great way to pratice and use of my scraps

I would love to know HOW to keep the little stinker OFF the tables and counters. Mine is an absolute daredevil!! We have toys galore, special bed etc he still will attempt to tip top ever so quietly across the table, sideboard, hutch and countertops. I dislike that immensely! But I love the little guy so much it's hard to discipline him too much, he's really a love, just has lots of spunk! Yes,... that's him to the left, my avatar!
So in answer to your question.... YES, he makes himself right at home on my table runner, placemats, tablecloths etc etc.. All which go into the washer more frequently than I would like!
Still adore him!! :-D

Try a spray bottle of water when they get on things you don't want them to be on. That is how I have trained stubborn cats about tables and counter tops in the past. My cat just loves to sleep on my fabric, but she also loves any paper, no matter what size to get on. I guess she doesn't want it to get away! I'm glad my mid arm is in a room she does not get into, otherwise I would have a sagging quilt when it would be on the frame.....

PEOPLE! will you listen to yourselves????? Table Cloth, table mats, place mats, coasters??????? These are CAT accessories!:):):):):)

Thanks erstan!! YOU understand MY cats :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: lolololol

Maybe make them a little topper.

I hear you, erstan! (Although mine is pretty good about staying off what I tell him to.)

But their motto is "What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine" lol :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I have never used a table runner but know that if I did, my cats would lay on it.

My cats are not "allowed" on the table however, no matter how strict I try to be, my cats are supervised for most of the day by a DH who will not discipline to my standards. (We had the same problem with our son - who despite this turned out great.)

Go for the table runner and let the cats have a little fun. :-D

Persistence is the key...we have a "no furred creatures on where food goes" rule. Takes time a squirt bottle and a hand slammed on a table/counter and a loud NO to get the message through. But, if all else fails, make a bunch of tablerunners so you will have "backups" if there is a mutiny.

I tried the spray bottle of water but my little white cat Nipper came to love being sprayed! never did figure out how to keep him off the counters, placemats, etc. I miss him (he passed away last year Jan. at 14 yrs old). wish he was still laying on my placemats.

I would like to say that my cats are not allowed on the table. I made new Table runner, placemats and so proud of them. Laid them on the table to show off and I got up the other morning at 3 am, walked into the kitchen and BOTH cats are sound a sleep on my new table decorations!! So much for that blind thought.

Oh well I guess I'm going to make some and that washing machine will just have to work overtime :D:D:D:D:D

Also if you want to keep them off of certain surfaces carry a spray bottle filled with water and when they get onto something you don't want them on spray them and tell them nooooooo they are really very intelligent animals..

Most cats loveeeeeeee to have a place all their own in front of a window that they can look out of. you can put a trunk or something in front of a window and lay a pillow on top of it and that should keep your kitty off of the other beauties. Now you must realize that their curiousity is a thing of nauture and they are going to check out each thing that is new that comes into your house. mine always get down on the floor or on the bed (these days) to help me baste my quilts.

try using a mouse trap - unbaited of course. They will set it off without getting caught but the snap intimidates them. I have done this on counter tops too. Love my cats but don't want them on food surfaces!

My cats will find a quilt to nap on whereever they can. I found 1 there other day in my linen closet fast asleep. I had neglected to shut the door completely, she found her way in. Good thing I had to put sheets away later, she would have been trapped.

I've had lots of cat's through the years and always had sucess shooting a stream of water at them to teach them to stay off the tables and counters. I really think it has to be a hard stream and in their face is besst. LOL some will run the second they see the spray bottle. They hate it in there face especially.

Lucky you! :D My cats go pretty much where they want, when they want! LOL And while my cats aren't allowed on my kitchen table, they will break that rule the moment I put a table runner on it. :D

Speaking as a veterinary technician, I'd just like to say that using a spritzer bottle of room temp water is a good deterent for cats, but please, no hard streams in the face. We've seen cats with eye injuries from this and it's so avoidable. A soft mist of water will work just as well to deter your cat. It's not the force of the water that bothers them, it's the water itself. Before you spritz, shake the bottle once or twice quickly. Then soon, you won't even have to spritz, you can just shake the bottle and they'll run. But please - no hard sprays for the safety of your kitties.

How about PUPPY laying there as if he were the centerpiece, we have to tilt the chairs.- J.

Cats like to be up high, so if you have room for a cat tower all the better. Then he/she can look down on you as you do whatever you are doing. You have to put it where you spend a lot of time. Mine would follow me even when I would tell them, just going to bathroom will be right back. Open bathroom door and they would be sitting or laying outside the door.
Didyou ever noitce the dark colored cats will sleep or lay on light colored fabric and vise versa with light colored cats?

Make a runner for the cat, place it on the area you WANT her on!
Cats and quilts, they just go together...God made 'em that way, ain't nothing you can do about it!

Gorgeous kitty avatar!! If that beauty were mine I'd let her sleep anywhere she wanted!

Speaking as a veterinary technician, I'd just like to say that using a spritzer bottle of room temp water is a good deterent for cats, but please, no hard streams in the face. We've seen cats with eye injuries from this and it's so avoidable. A soft mist of water will work just as well to deter your cat. It's not the force of the water that bothers them, it's the water itself. Before you spritz, shake the bottle once or twice quickly. Then soon, you won't even have to spritz, you can just shake the bottle and they'll run. But please - no hard sprays for the safety of your kitties.[/quote]

That's good to know, especially as it was my vet who gave me the advice. I no longer have cats, but if I ever do again, I will remember this.

My cats would catch on to it and say "It's meant to be seen not slept on, What were you thinking,MOM" They are to smart to leave hair on something that is theirs!!!!

Our cat, Crawfish, seven years old, just recently learned how to be a cat. My DD came to stay a while,brought her dogs and cats, and they whispered into Crawfish's ear. He now is in charge, and sits, sleeps, anywhere he chooses. Right this minute, he is in the top of DH's closet watching me carefully. The water spray did not help for him.

Can't and don't keep the cat off of anything except counters. She's 17.5 years young and I may not have her too much longer so she can lay on the runners and crocheted afghans. I can wash them and cat hair like ketchup is a condiment anyway...lol.

Absolutely RIGHT! Don't we make them just for our fur babies pleasure? The spray bottle worked with one of our cats but when we were not there, he did what he pleased. Must be a man/boy thing.

Find a perfume (not your fragrance) and just lightly spray the runner. It took 2 different kinds before I found the one she didn't like.

Yes, it all belongs to them. And the louder they purr while laying there the better they like the item.

One of my cats loves my table runners. I spray water on her when I find her on it because I don't want her on the table with her long hair. She keeps going back and if she stays off during the day, she will get up there at night, because I find her there in the mornings. Can't break her of it. She has her own bed that she used before I had the table runners.

I don't let my cats get on the tables. They are allowed on the bed,the couch,and my lap,but no tables or counters.