1. The cat is not allowed in the house.
2. OK, the cat is allowed in the house, but only in certain rooms.
3. Ok, the cat is allowed in all rooms, but must stay off the furniture.
4. The cat can get on the old furniture only.
5. Fine, the cat is allowed on all the furniture, but it is not allowed to sleep with the humans on the bed.
6. The cat can sleep on the bed, but not under the covers or on the pillow.
7. OK, The cat can sleep under the covers and on the pillow by invitation only.
8. Well, ok, the cat can sleep under the covers every night and on the pillow too.
9. Humans must ask permission to sleep under the cover with the cat; only the cat can sleep on the pillow.

We call it, The Cat Rules.

Other than that...

1) If the cat jumps in the bag, take the cat for a ride in the bag.
2) If the cat stops at the door, dammit, open the door!
3) If the cat goes in the kitchen, you better start cooking.
4) If the cat goes on the bed, have a nice night on the sofa.
5)If the cat is on the sofa, don't try for the bed; she will beat you there 9 out of every 10 times.
6) If the cat raises her paw, it's called the "kitty flip" and you did something bad.
7) If the cat box is not cleaned daily, your shoes are fair game.
8) If you ever run out of string, don't go to sleep with the lights off.
9)If you feel there is a need to pick up the cat, better hope someone else with your blood type felt a need to donate blood recently.
10) The cat is just too darn cute to let rules 1-9 bother us.

The Universe

I like your list too!