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Purred: Fri May 29, '09 8:38am PST


	This hardly a topic of earth-shattering importance, but I am frequently fighting my cats (mostly the kittens) while I use my laptop. They walk across the keyboard, they try to sleep on it, they lay their little heads on keys that screw things up...I know that they're trying to seek intimacy (and perhaps warmth), but it does get irritating after a while, and even if I put them back on the floor, they jump up again and begin the beguine once more on the keyboard. Any ideas? (Obviously, spraying water is not going to work in this case...)

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The sweetest- little brat :)

Purred: Fri May 29, '09 10:08am PST


	Double sided tape? Maybe put some coins in a can and rattle it?

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Purred: Wed Jun 3, '09 8:05pm PST


	I think it was me who yanked 2 keys off of mommy's laptop when I was young. She's missing the covers off of the zero and dash buttons - - but now she says she's so used to pushing the little rubber knobs that it's weird to use an undamaged keyboard. lol Mom closes the lid when the computer is not in use, because my sister Socks would take dusts baths in the driveway then lay on the laptop and drop sand in the keyboard. If yer kitties walk on your laptop keyboard, use caution when picking them up because they might just sink their claws in and pull off the keys!!

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Purred: Wed Jun 3, '09 9:54pm PST


	Oh, I've already lost several keys. The emergency computer fix-it man came and replaced the whole keyboard thingie, with seven curious cats vying to see who could bother him the most. I no longer have subscriptions to TIME and Newsweek, but I remember that when I did, one of them had a weekly forum dedicated to statistics--weird statistics. One week, they actually came up with a statistic relating to how much cat hair you could expect to have lodged under your computer keys after a certain period of use. Like, there are people out there weighing the stuff and keeping records??? It is true, however, that after using my previous laptop for several years (and I usually turn it off and close the cover when I've finished using it), I took a needle and poked around under each key, and came up with a big wad of cat hair each time. Seven cats vs. one laptop; the cats win every time.

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Purred: Wed Jun 3, '09 11:50pm PST


	just got a new computer yesterday, and i swear by all that's holy that i will close the freakin' thing whenever i so much as stand up...but it's already irritating to have to push the power button, click on my name and wait a few seconds every time i turn around. which is pretty sad when you think about it-what, my attention span sucks so hard i can't take a 3 to 5 second delay? so far i have remembered every time, but i'm sure it's inevitable that i will eventually forget, be distracted, whatever. and my cats will be right THERE. kaya has already camped out on it while closed several times, and has been busily cheek-marking the screen... (to avoid confusion, kaya has camped out on the COMPUTER while IT was closed, not when she was closed. kaya never closes. )

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Purred: Thu Jun 4, '09 3:21am PST


	Oh--and don't forget that cats can destroy laptops, even when they are off and closed. A cat jumping four feet down on top of your closed laptop can basically destroy the LCD screen. It took around two years, but Pookie managed to do that eventually. Breeder Daddy has had the same problem. Solution? Fairly simple. Just make sure that you leave something on top of the closed laptop once you've stopped using it. I put a light-weight but large plastic mirror on top, and haven't had any troubles since. Cats are dumb but actually very smart; if they see an obstacle located in the area they want to jump onto, they will invariably choose a different route.

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I'm cute and I- know how to use- that :)

Purred: Thu Jun 4, '09 10:56am PST


	We also put our laptops on their side and wedged up and open when we are walking away but coming right back. Both of our cats are smart enough to realize it would make an unsafe surface, and leave the laptops alone when they're like that (as opposed to just left open like a clamshell). And sometimes it's all about how much you care: the husband is now using a work laptop (I call it "the new toy"), and pretty much only uses his own laptop if he needs to retrieve old e-mail. It's been sitting on the table unused for three days, and you'd think that the cats would think "Yay! Prohibited place to nap!", but instead they have taken to studiously ignoring it. It's like they can sense it is no longer "valuable" territory (and I could swear Boris does eye the work laptop when it's out and about... "Hmmm... A new goal!" ). Edited by author Thu Jun 4, '09 10:58am PST

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Purred: Thu Jun 4, '09 11:41am PST


	I got a new computer desk at Christmas time (great price at Big Lots Store). The keyboard is on a shelf that slides under the desk, so when I am finished using the computer the keyboard is no longer in the open. However, when I am using the keyboard some cat wil jump up on the open desk area and either try to stand on the keyboard or lay on it. Louie likes to stand on his hind legs and then put his front legs on my shoulders. This way I can't see what I am doing, and must instead, pet him. Funny thing is, even though all of us live in different states (and in Val's case, another country), we all have the same problems with cats vs computers. And in the same vein......do your cats try and lay down on a book when you have it open in your lap? Mine are all guilty of this. Buddy will also try and push the book off my lap with his nose. Figures laps are for cats.......not books!!!!

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Purred: Thu Jun 4, '09 11:43am PST


	hmm i THINK i'm keeping my computer too far from the entertainment center for the girls to descend from above like feline raptors, but it's still within range (of course) for lateral leaps. had a thought...the mutant twins pretty much destroyed a lamp, and the shade is detached. i could let my computer wear the lampshade like a little hat when i leave it alone. i doubt they'd jump onto that, it would not be comfy. but the lampshade IS lightweight enough for kaya to shove aside if she decides to curl up on my laptop, so i'll continue to keep it closed...but the question is, am i courting disaster to my LCD screen if i don't address the issue of a fourteen-pound cat curling up on top of it when it's closed?

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Purred: Thu Jun 4, '09 11:49am PST


	buddy bolden: (hi, faye! ) god yes. my cats will ignore me for hours, but just let me start writing in my journal, drawing, or reading a book-they're there to be a loving hindrance. usually kaya, but rhymon is fascinated by my art supplies...remember that desperate SOS i sent out in the answers forum when she ate a piece of blue pastel chalk when she was a baby? kaya likes to free her inner goat while i'm reading...she noshes on the pages. most of my paperbacks look like we're raising rats in here...nope, cats. on another note-anybody else have kitties who object to the cell phone?

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