Keeping your cat off the ironing board
#72
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NASHVILLE, TN
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The law of unintented consequences handed me my answer. I set up a new ironing board in my sewing room. It was three inches from the wall and it is lightweight. I was in bed about a week ago and I heard a loud bang. Pumpkin had jumped up on the board, it slammed into the wall, and scared her so bad she won't get near the board. I have also tried a spray bottle but it didn't work very well. I'm sorry you got burned. I hope it is healing well.
#74
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Newberg, OR
Posts: 1,911
My cats don't get on the ironing board, but they do get on my fabric while I'm trying to cut. I gave them a nice soft bed, which they rejected until I sprinkled it with dried catnip. Now they sleep there when they're in the room with me.
#75
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Murrells Inlet, SC
Posts: 153
Sorry to hear about you nasty burn, hope it heals quickly. As for your cat, when you bring them in to your home, they take that litterly, it is their home. Sometimes like children, if they get by with it one time, they think it is OK. I am lucky, my cat has never tried the ironing board, nor the cutting/sewing table, she stays on the floor right by my chair. Hope you are successful in breaking her.
#77
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Posts: 857
I haven't had a cat in decades, but enjoyed reading all the helpful tips. I do have a year old shih tzu who has cat-like behaviors. This was a first for us, but the breeder told me that it was not unusual. We use the spray bottle technique occasionally. We've put a little white vinegar in the water and he hates the vinegar odor left on his fur.Stream or spray, hitching the bottle to a pocket, or the warning OhOh has corraled his wanderlust for certain areas. I know Chief would have been up on the ironing board if a chair had been left nearby! DH says Chief is nosey, I say he is inquisitive and we both say we love him :-)
#79
Originally Posted by Deborah12687
I have been working today on making quilted pillows and things were going a long quite well. My cat always hangs around the ironing board. I don't let her on it and today she jumped up on it I went to shew her off as I never let her on the ironing board and the iron fell on my arm and I got a nasty burn. What do you do to keep your cat off the ironing board?
I've got dogs that don't like electrical cords and don't like all the stuff I have around when I quilt. So they never create a problem-----------except when I cut off their access to the couch.
#80
Sorry about your burn. Hope it is
healing by now. I don't have any
animals inside so can't help with that.
Our cat doesn't like it inside. Only
when the weather is too cold. Then he
tolerates the utility room. LOL
healing by now. I don't have any
animals inside so can't help with that.
Our cat doesn't like it inside. Only
when the weather is too cold. Then he
tolerates the utility room. LOL
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