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Re: Desk for people who work at home with a cat

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andai wrote: post #39
mrweasel wrote: post #23

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Also illegal here in Denmark, if you use it while working from home. Desks must be height adjustable. Your employer is responsible for providing ergonomically correct office equipment. Basically any influencer and YouTuber who's showing "clever" desk hacks or builds fails because their creations aren't height adjustable. And my cat sleeps behind the laptop anyway.

Remarkable. What else is illegal there?

In Sweden, not checking on your cat at least twice daily is illegal

Re: Desk for people who work at home with a cat

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miriam_catira wrote: post #114
teamonkey wrote: post #73

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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??"

One of the best Human-Cat interactions scenes about food in a movie is the opening 10 minutes from movie The Long Goodbye

Re: Desk for people who work at home with a cat

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x______________ wrote: post #46
MichaelDickens wrote: post #13

I can foresee a design flaw, which is that the cat will ignore all the specially designated areas and sit on your keyboard instead.

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…

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Re: Desk for people who work at home with a cat

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Post by rkagerer »

miriam_catira wrote: post #114
teamonkey wrote: post #73

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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??"

And yet despite all our deficiencies they still choose to spend their time with us, how great are these creatures.

Re: Desk for people who work at home with a cat

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

nkapias wrote: post #117
freedomben wrote: post #91

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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.

> Noticed that in my absence, cats hang where I spend the most of my time when present

Mine too. I believe it has something to do with your scent being soothing to them. We tend to think of domestic cats as solitary creatures. And while it's true that cats are solitary hunters, they are absolutely a social species, a truth betrayed by feral cats predominantly organising into colonies.

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Post by tonyarkles »

financetechbro wrote: post #81
enlyth wrote: post #69

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Yeah after investing in countless cat toys from the pet store, I found out that my cat's favorites are (in no particular order): - McDonald's paper straw - Bird feather from outside - Empty toilet paper roll - Shoelace - Strap of Velcro - Bottle cap

Cat + bottle cap around the hours of 3am - 5am seems to be a preferred form of entertainment, from my experience

I woke up early the other day. The house was perfectly silent until I got near the kitchen, when I heard a ping followed by an odd sound. As I got closer to see what was going on, an empty beer can casually rolled past my feet. The cats were nowhere to be seen.
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