Coping with Cats

Thanks for sharing! Being a cat owner sure is hard - but so worth it when they snuggle up next to ya!

> Plenty of toys, and sometimes play YouTube for cat

Since I started WFH, one of my cats has taken to sitting on my desk and batting at my mouse cursor. Never had a cat do that before.

Yes, climbing is key - cats love vertical play and hang out. Routines are also very key. My cat is like a clock now. Never tried YT for more than 1m with cat - does that even work?

Also how often do you refresh the litter box?

It's an alright list, but that's some beginner level stuff. Where's things like

-cat is obssessed with plastic bags whenever he wants attention and ends up wearing them like a cape trailing it through the house causing havoc.

-cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash

-wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises only to find the cat spiderman-ing up the screen on the window because some rats or something were outside

-on the note of two in the morning, that's of course the cats favourite time to run around the house meowing on the top of his lungs, just because.

-if you have a cat and get a puppy, get ready for that puppy to start walking on window sills, the back of the couch, and even up on the coffee table even if it's over 50lbs and clumsy as hell, cause the cat does it.

-Oh, you were 5 minutes late feeding the cat, well have fun with non stop fucking around for the rest of the day or night

-made some steak, fish, chicken, even salad...and turned your back for a second, well that cat's gonna be all up in that, as a bonus, maybe he'll knock it onto the ground so him and the dogs can feast.

But despite all this...and more, still love the furry little bastard.

I sympathize with the Litter Robot experience. It's painfully close to being perfect if you can invest in its price and physical size. Relatively speaking, it works far better than perhaps any other complex automated mechanical consumer product I've ever used, but that's a low bar. It gets stuck mid-cycle randomly, so you have to remember to give it a look a couple times a day, and you still may not catch it before your cat decides to take matters into their own hands. Because this is the only major problem, I was highly motivated to try every suggestion out there in fixing it, but nothing worked. It's truly a shame.