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All fun and games until the cat ends up sitting in front of your monitor, just like my cat is doing right now because it is warm. Had to move my browser up to see what I am typing.
If only we could plug our cats in and use them to type. Call it a purrallel port.
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…
I can foresee a design flaw, which is that the cat will ignore all the specially designated areas and sit on your keyboard instead.
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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…
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
All fun and games until the cat ends up sitting in front of your monitor, just like my cat is doing right now because it is warm. Had to move my browser up to see what I am typing.
You need a stand such when the cat's weight is detected in front of the monitor, the monitor is lifted up.
I can foresee a design flaw, which is that the cat will ignore all the specially designated areas and sit on your keyboard instead.
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.
to be fair, the page was probably arranged in a nice sunny spot at the time of the incident.
Something like https://desknest.com seems much more likely to work.
Seems designed by people who definetly do not work from home with cats. The cats demand to be on top of the desk, within attention reach at all times. Pro tip: even big cats love to lay in the top cover of a printer paper box. You can adorn the outside, but keep the inside plain smooth cardboard as they are extremely fond of that feel.
The can was always at arms reach for scritches and cat debugging.
The problem is that cats can flawlessly detect when something was made for them to use, and then will not deign to use it. Meanwhile, the cardboard box you have forgotten to take to the recycling for three weeks will become their palace.