I'm about to cry. I feel like I'm at Cheers Bar - where everybody knows your name (or at least everybody else is as stupid about pets as I am).

Sally - your post reminded me of when my grandmother came to visit. The cat would hop up on the counter and my mom would shoo her off proclaiming loudly, "I don't know why she thinks she can walk on the counter!" Poor cat, as soon as g-ma left, it was business as usual!