What's with O F F ?

I am familiar with the word, but try to ignore it as often as I can. Since we've been Cesaring I can't get away with it as often as I would like.

I hear this when I jump onto the back of a chair I tore up just two weeks after mommy bought it. OFF is a bad word and I do not like to hear it.

OFF is a dumb word. 'Nuff said.

Hoover, thanks so much for confirming my opinion!

Hmmm, off? I hear NO and DOWN a lot, but not usually OFF.

Maybe if you say please like I do it would work. If I reeealllly want up on the bed, I have to say please by sitting nicely and looking up at Mom. Only then will she "maybe" invite me up to what I want to do. But, no please, no fun... so I say please. Mom tells me Thank you, Roo -- come on up.

we get off in our house too because down means lay down. Grandma will tell us "down" and I lay down - on the couch where I am. Makes her laugh because she forgets that difference.

OK, I tried it, but FM said I cannot get get up on the counter :(

You don't actually need to get up on the counter. Sit and give FM the "please" look. You know, make your eyes all soulful and sweet and sad looking. That'll score you some treats, might not be what's on the the counter, but it could be even better, like bacon flavored dental chews or whizzle sticks or pigs ears or milkbones or ...you get the idea. But sister, you gotta master "the look." Otherwise you're at their mercy, not the other way around.

I hear that nasty word a LOT. I don't even try for the counter anymore. Not worth the frustration. I usually hear it for jumping up on something (or someone) I'm not supposed, too.

This is EXCELLENT advice. I only have a goofy look. I need a sad, pathetic one

Lexie....you need the sad, pathetic look...I wasnt lucky enough to be in a foster home....I was in the shelter and thats where I MASTERED the sad, pathetic look. I'll share it with you, because it is like magic...when I pull out my look...I get anything I want. You name it...I got it...belly rub, pigs ear, ear scratch, dads side of the bed....I even got a gummy bear the other day...(yuck....tasted like boogers...ya i eat those sometimes) Anyway...to master the look...you have to make your eyebrow area go up so your eyes look like tear drops...it works on my Mom all the time...thats how I got my home. Well...the look and my stunning good looks and wit.