I, too, get a bit grumpy when I can't access my electronic world. Sad but true.
A few days ago, my internet went down. Even on the extremely rare occasion that happens, it usually comes back up quickly, but not this time. It was early in the morning so I couldn't contact the phone company (DSL) and whine. After a few hours, I was practically pulling out my hair. Then, as I walked down the hall outside my bear cave, I noticed that a connector between two very long sections of phone line running along the edge of the hall floor had been pulled away from the wall and pulled apart. Mind you, this connector was heavily taped with black electrical tape. The tape was completely chewed through and pulled away from the connector. Yeah, a cat. There are eight here, so I didn't know which one to kill. But, at least finally knowing what the problem was, I could fix it quick and get back online. I did.
About five minutes passed and the internet went down again. WTF? I jumped up from my desk and dashed back out into the hall. There was the culprit, Theadosha, chewing at the connector. Startled, she looked up at me, eyes wide as if to say, "WHAT?" I shooed her away. (I talk big, but there's no way I'd really kill a cat.) Again I fixed it, went back into my cave and closed the door. A few more minutes passed and, yep, it happened again. When I returned to the hall this time, she ran off immediately and into a room at the other end of the hall. From there, she peeked around the doorjamb at me. It was a game and she was messing with me! Hmm.
Repairs made again, I returned to my cave and closed the door. But, instead of sitting down, I waited by the door for about 30 seconds and yanked it open. There she was again, just beginning to mess with the connector. She jumped up and ran off to the end room to repeat the peekaboo game. She's nuts!
Then I had the brilliant idea of coating the connector with Tabasco Sauce. Now, she spends hours lying on the floor next to the connector, staring at it with a forlorn look on her face, but she hasn’t messed with it since. Cat with OCD?