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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 freedomben »

andix wrote: post #53
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.

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.

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

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Post by nottorp »

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.

Exactly!

Although my last cat was nicer and slept between the keyboard and monitor. Pushing aside every small piece of crap that I kept on the desk of course (had to regularly gather sd cards that she pushed off the desk) but at least she let me see and type!

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

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Post by dhoe »

rickstanley wrote: post #35
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.

Put a useless keyboard down there and pretend you are typing with your toes.

They're predators. They are very good at understanding where your real attention is.

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

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Post by zdware »

fullstop wrote: post #49
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 have food periodically delivered from Chewy, and I keep the box. Each month, the old box is recycled and the new box is put to use: https://i.imgur.com/lFgp63O.jpeg There is definitely an attraction aspect related the "freshness" of the box, as there are squabbles over which cat gets to use the new box. These squabbles wane over time, until the new box arrives.

Same habit here!

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

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Post by drgo »

rickstanley wrote: post #35
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.

Put a useless keyboard down there and pretend you are typing with your toes.

this is a good way to lose a toe or two

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

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Post by drgo »

gib444 wrote: post #56

I will never understand the accomodations people make for a pet which gives you so little in return. If most owners were 100% honest and in private I reckon at least 50% would admit their cat is an asshole. I mean they don't even smile like a dog. They look miserable most of the time! It's like an abusive relationship where nothing you do will please them LOL Yes, I'm a dog person ;) There must be something to the to…

I recall reading that ~30% of humans have evidence of toxoplasmosis. But, it is unclear whether that is harming their intelligence. Statistically, cat owners have higher IQ than dog owners (pls do not shoot the messenger unless you want to provide further evidence of the validity of this observation).

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

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Post by egypturnash »

rickstanley wrote: post #35
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.

Put a useless keyboard down there and pretend you are typing with your toes.

this is an invitation to toe crimes

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

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Post by gverrilla »

gib444 wrote: post #56

I will never understand the accomodations people make for a pet which gives you so little in return. If most owners were 100% honest and in private I reckon at least 50% would admit their cat is an asshole. I mean they don't even smile like a dog. They look miserable most of the time! It's like an abusive relationship where nothing you do will please them LOL Yes, I'm a dog person ;) There must be something to the to…

> so little in return.

That's simply not true. You clearly never had a cat.

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