On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:00:45 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:

Per MaryL:
Years ago, my sister "thought" she had succeeded in teaching her cat not
to get on the kitchen counter top. Then she glanced at the kitchen
window one day as she was returning home and saw her cat quickly jump
down from the counter. By the time she entered the house, her cat
approached her while stretching and yawning. It seems that her cat had
simply learned a way to trick her into *thinking* that my sister had
succeeded.

My impression has always been that dogs are capable of feeling guilt and
cats are not.

Not so much guilt, but they can sense the feelings of those who love
them, and they don't like negative vibes.

Cats sense it too, but most of the time they don't care.

My wife thinks she has the cat trained to not get up on the kitchen
table, but actually she has it trained to not get up on the kitchen
table and to get off quickly when it hears somebody approaching.\

I have a kitchen ensuite and the main one is upstairs. I have never
had a problem with my two cats except the one off my bedroom has a
garden window, and Pookie liked to jump on the counter to access and
sleep in the window. The solution was to put a decorative screen over
the lower half of the window.

Kitty litter on the cutting board wasn't my thing.