The Lookout Perch

While at the shop, I started putting Rowdy up on the counter on a carpet pad.  He has got to where he really likes it up there and when he's lying on the floor away from the counter and I pat the counter and say, "Want up here?", he runs over to me and tries to help himself up by leaping when I lift him up and put him up there.  The advantage of being on the counter allows him to look out the windows and see what's going on in the world, along with greeting the customers.  The disadvantage is that he wants to lick them all in the face, if they give him lots of attention.