How to Mop the Kitchen Floor when You Have Inside Cats
Remove Food and Water Bowls from the Kitchen
If your cats have their food and water bowls located in the kitchen, you cannot blame them for spending a lot of their time in the kitchen when they are hungry or thirsty. But if you want to clean the kitchen floor, you will have to move your cats’ food and water bowls out of the kitchen so that you can clean the floor properly without having to clean around your cats as they are having a meal or a drink.
Use Toys to Distract Cats
Cats have a limitless capacity for getting into trouble and curiously investigating what is going on around them. When you want to clean the kitchen floor though, it will not do having your inside cats walking all over your freshly mopped floor or watching as they slip on the wet floor before it has even had a chance to dry. One way you can keep inside cats out of the kitchen as you try to mop the kitchen floor is to use cat toys to distract them. Choose cat toys that contain catnip, bells, string or wool. Such toys can keep cats entertained for hours and help to keep them out of the kitchen while you are cleaning the kitchen floor.
Enlist the Help of Family Members
Family members can help to distract curious cats long enough so that you can mop the kitchen floor without having to constantly put the cats out of the kitchen. They can help by taking the cats into another room and playing with them and making a fuss of them long enough so that the kitchen looks less appealing to them.
Cleaning the kitchen floor will seem like more of a chore if you have cats under your feet investigating the soapy bucket and then trying to drink from it or sniffing at the wet mop as you attempt to mop the floor. But if you plan in advance and create reasons for your cats to stay out of the kitchen, there will be less likelihood of your inside cats interfering as you try to mop the kitchen floor.
