Cats and Computers

Puma · Nov 29, 2011

I suspect I'm not the only one with this problem. I'm sitting here typing (trying to anyway) with a cat sitting on the back of my computer chair, paws firmly tangled up in my hair, and periodically biting me on the head or ears to remind me she's there.

Other cat is making sure she has the place of importance in front of me, and in doing so either pushes the keyboard away from me or pummels my stomach with her kneading paws (and she's one of the ones who has never figured out how to release her claws - so tangled!). If things get too dull for her, she'll help me type - loves the keys. Thankfully she hasn't deleted things too often, but she does make life interesting.

Anyone else have computer cat stories to share? Puma

regdog · Nov 30, 2011

When I had a desk top computer they loved to stomp back and forth across the keyboard flicking their tails at me.

Shakesbear · Nov 30, 2011

See my avatar!

TheIT · Nov 30, 2011

I put a footstool next to my computer chair for the cats. Sometimes they use it.

It's chilly out today, so I'm using a lap blanket. As I'm typing this, one of my cats is sitting on my blanket-covered feet grooming himself. Saves me the expense of a foot warmer.

oarsman · Nov 30, 2011

One of the new kittens I adopted decided that cordless is better. He chewed through my mouse cord when I left the room. I guess I got the message. I bought a cordless mouse to replace the chewed one.

Zelenka · Nov 30, 2011

I either get the cat walking over my lap, then standing right on my knee between me and the keyboard, or sitting next to me, rubbing his head off the keyboard so that it moves steadily away from me, or pulling cables out (one USB socket is his favourite - anything plugged into that is fair game to get pulled out). He also occasionally hits the keyboard whilst I'm writing and recently wrote 'poooooooooooooooo' at the end of my WIP. Though it subsequently turned out that everyone else thought the same thing.

benbradley · Dec 1, 2011

I had a cat back when I had an original Macintosh computer. The cat would paw at the screen wherever I moved the mouse pointer/arrow thing. Poor cat was confused that he never caught the little "bug" that moved over the screen, but it was fun for me seeing the cat paw at the screen.

DeborahM · Dec 1, 2011

benbradley said:
I had a cat back when I had an original Macintosh computer. The cat would paw at the screen wherever I moved the mouse pointer/arrow thing. Poor cat was confused that he never caught the little "bug" that moved over the screen, but it was fun for me seeing the cat paw at the screen.

That's what I'm going through now with my cat Jethro (Leroy Jethro Gibbs actually!).

The previous posts sounded more like my Mr. Lucky, except for chewing through the cord!

But then again, look at my avatar!

ebar · Dec 1, 2011

From my customer support days I remember one customer with a laptop that had lost several keys (like that rarely used one, the letter E) after lifting a cat off it. Plus a monitor that had *ahem* been peed on by the cat. Given that monitors I'm told retain voltage, the effect on the cat doesn't bear thinking about.

AbielleRose · Dec 1, 2011

I recently gave my cats up, but this is what Mango would do whenever I was on the computer. She immediately noticed I wasn't giving her attention and would put her paws on the screen and either look over the top or around the sides.

Keyan · Dec 2, 2011

Back before screens were flat, my cat used to sleep on my monitor. It was nice and warm and full of fur. I remember how appalled she was when I got the first flat-panel monitor. She leapt up -- and there was no there there.

thothguard51 · Dec 2, 2011

My cat Brat, likes to lay across the key boards while I am typing. She thinks I am rubbing her tummy. She has also been known to go around back and unplug things and then sit there and look all innocent.

The other cats could care less. Only Brat likes to bug me when I am on the computer. She has recently taken an interest in my new Kindle Fire. If I leave it on the coffee table, while I refresh my coffee, I will return to her laying on it or pawing at it...

seaaircarol · Dec 2, 2011

Um. Yes.

< --- Sammie, who I recently inherited from my neighbor, loved walking on my keyboard during NaNo, and managed to actually turn off the computer a few times. I have been having problems ever since then!

Snowstorm · Dec 2, 2011

I hate you all! (I'm SO envious!)

Reading your stories made my morning.

Some day ...

Esmeralda · Dec 5, 2011

I wrote before that Snowman managed to delete a lovely message from an agent asking for my entire manuscript. I had to write and ask her to send it again so I could get the particulars right. Good thing she has cats herself and understood. Talk about heart attack time!

Snowman thinks he's doing a good job, really, but if he'd just learn to read, I'm sure he'd be even more help. I'll let everyone know if this ever happens.

Ken · Dec 5, 2011

... on my last job the boss' cat used to hop up on the desk while I was working. Since I was working I didn't really mind as it gave me an excuse to take a break and play with the cat, which was quite enjoyable. Sure do miss the fella :-(

Gilroy Cullen · Dec 13, 2011

I have a few fun furballs.

Edison, my orange little buddy, will try to catch the print head of my inkjet printer. He's come back with a black paw on a few ocassions. It also tends to streak the WIP I'm printing for editing purposes.

Lucky, my black and white (who I also call my cop cat), tends to not like me on the computer. she gets on the desk and pushes her head into my hand until I pet her. Good when playing solitare, not so much when trying to write a cover letter for a submission.

Alexander, the tux cat, discovered that the best way to get my attention when I'm at the computer is to bury his claws in my leg, just under my knee cap, then STRETCH! down. When I yelp in pain, he just sits there looking innocent...

Oh, and Edison has flopped onto my keyboard too.

slcboston · Dec 24, 2011

slcboston · Dec 24, 2011

My previous cat did not feel the need to be part of my computing experience, other than occasionally sitting in my lap.

New cat seems to regard the keyboard as his pillow when he's on my desk, which, if he's not perched on the back of my chair, seems to be his preferred spot in the office.

It's funny, because the laptop seems to exert it's own gravitational pull on him. He'll be sitting beside the laptop on the desk, and then slowly, inexorably, his head is drawn down onto the keyboard.

I push him aside, but it's only ever temporary.

amergina · Dec 24, 2011

I'm sitting here with both my laptop and my cat Mike on my lap. He's small enough that he can cat-loaf between my body and the laptop and put his head on my arm as I type.

Jon cat is larger and doesn't fit as well between me and the laptop. Even worse is when they both try to fit in there, one on top of the other...

Which is why I am often sitting up against the corner of the sectional with my feet up. So they can lay on my legs.

roseangel · Dec 26, 2011

I usually have a cat(sometimes it seems like a dozen at once) curled up in front of me, with another at my back between me and the chair.

frolzagain · Jan 2, 2012

My cat Ava is addicted to watching videos on youtube. Every time I turn on my computer she comes running over and sits in front of the screen, waiting for the videos to start. If I don't go to youtube, I get lots of dirty looks. She will sit there for hours, watching and pawing at things she likes, for as long as I let her.

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