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Desk for people who work at home with a cat
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#112I can foresee a design flaw, which is that the cat will ignore all the specially designated areas and sit on your keyboard instead.
My wife, being a genius, has a decoy keyboard. Pretty effective, it usually has a cat sitting on it.
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#113I can foresee a design flaw, which is that the cat will ignore all the specially designated areas and sit on your keyboard instead.
I put a nice box with a pet safe heating pad and blanket and the cat never sat on my keyboard again. When she wanted my attention she then just stood in front of my face and then would sit back on the blanket eventually
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Past experience with cat-wrangling over the years have taught me one thing (amongst many): It doesn't matter what the object is, if human cares about it, cat will use said object as a cat would, in order to communicate with human. Communications from cat tend to be along the lines of: I'm hungry, or in most cases, I want attention (play/stimulation). Past objects observed: Keyboards, houseplants, pens & pencils, kitc…
They are incredibly communicative animals. Their problem seems to be that I am a very stupid creature that often does the wrong thing, like not feeding them every time they’re hungry, sitting at a desk instead of playing with them, carrying them out of the room when they were clearly trying to get on the kitchen counter, and so on.
Or, god forbid, stupid creature that I am, I buy _the wrong flavor food_. Then it's all "why are you trying to poison me, hooman? do you not love me anymore??"
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#115I can foresee a design flaw, which is that the cat will ignore all the specially designated areas and sit on your keyboard instead.
I put a nice box with a pet safe heating pad and blanket and the cat never sat on my keyboard again. When she wanted my attention she then just stood in front of my face and then would sit back on the blanket eventually
Yep. I have one of these on my desk: https://www.amazon.com/Generic-Cattop/dp/B09F8QQPJH/ (a heating pad shaped like a laptop), and our cat will spend 90% of my workday on it, and the remaining 10% is spent getting my attention (or getting lunch).
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#116I have a cat bed[1] that's attached to my desk. It's got a "monitor arm" and a bed on top. My cat loves to see what I'm doing all day so she will just lay there for hours and watch me work. [1]: https://a.co/d/0hymOUdn
Hah! Is your cat bed ergonomically adjusted?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. Contrary to popular belief cats don't sit there because a laptop keyboard is warm. They also sit on external keyboards or even in front of a tablet without a keyboard (blocking the view to the screen). They just want your attention.
Partially correct. For sure a lot of it is getting attention, but they do care about the warmth. I've walked in to my office plenty of times to see my cat sitting on my laptop when I haven't even been in there for hours. She will even find the laptop and lay on it when it's in random places around the house. Reproduced with three different cats over the yeras. The warmth is definitely a cat magnet.
Noticed that in my absence, cats hang where I spend the most of my time when present.
If for a few days I only come home to sleep I'll usually find them on my bed.
If I work at my desk for a week, then the next days they'll be found on my chair.
And so on.. A somewhat reliable habit indicator.
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#118I just put round cat bed on my desk to the left of my keyboard. Works like a charm. It is close by so I can play with the cat / pet it and cat does not use my keyboard as a bed.
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#119I can foresee a design flaw, which is that the cat will ignore all the specially designated areas and sit on your keyboard instead.
Or more likely on top of your tower pc
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