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Desk for people who work at home with a cat

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

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Post by financetechbro »

enlyth wrote: post #69
x______________ wrote: post #46

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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

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

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

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Post by ana_lysis »

stronglikedan wrote: post #47

Heh, cool. It's the complete opposite of my idea - an office chair for people who work at home with a dog. It's just a regular office chair but double wide - an office loveseat maybe? Anyway, the point is that the couch just isn't ergonomic enough for me to be productive, but I like when my dog cuddles me while I work.

I have a relatively big office chair and do exactly this. I ordered the chair online so I didn’t know that it would be quite so big. Now my dog has learnt to hop on to the chair and curl around behind me. I do end up sitting on the edge of my seat but obviously my dog’s comfort takes priority.

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Post by bartvk »

mcswell wrote: post #22
ivraatiems wrote: post #7

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.

We got a nice cozy fuzzy cat bed. So naturally the cat decided to sit in...the cardboard box the bed came in.

We once got a cat bed with a soft canopy. It held up due to the stiffness of the fabric. The cat found out that it’s possible to make the canopy sag by putting her full weight on it. She never actually slept inside it, only on top of it. When she died of old age, the bed looked old and disheveled, but the inside was pristine…

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

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Post by m3047 »

I swear that once upon a time I sat at a desk, and it had a label printer sitting on it, and the box of labels was in a box fed through a hole pretty much like that... except I think it was kinda square with rounded corners. The "shelf" under the main part looks like you could put a retractable keyboard mount under there. Is this a joke?

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

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Post by linsomniac »

rationalist wrote: post #80
ivraatiems wrote: post #7

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.

I just put an appropriately-sized cardboard box on the corner of my desk.

Ditto, a short box from wet cat food worked really well to keep my cats off the laptop.

I have a USB keyboard and external monitors, so the laptop sits off to the side, and is warm, so they loved to sleep there. Particularly a problem since it also has a button that powers off the laptop. I made a keyboard cover, but even then it was problematic with them sleeping on it (thermal throttling).

Putting a box on the desk solved that, they prefer it, until a second cat wants to join the party, which is thankfully rare.

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

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Post by CamouflagedKiwi »

vidarh wrote: post #28
CamouflagedKiwi wrote: post #16

Valuable lesson about understanding your potential customers. There is in fact zero chance of my cats (and probably most others) sitting where they are supposed to, they much prefer being on top to look around - and sometimes to look intently at the screen as though they are reviewing my code.

There are desk attachments that will allow your cat to lord it over you from on high.

I have a bookshelf and a cat tree near my desk, they do indeed do that.
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