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post #1 of 31
11/25/07 at 6:17am
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Thanks for the new forum Anne.
I love it's title.

I know that I am not alone with this challenge of kitties and computers.
I use a desk top.
When I sit at my desk, it's like on open invitation for Sadie and Dexter to stand between my face and the monitor.
They jump up on my desk, and just stand there.
If I am in the middle of a PM or post, I have to look around them to see what I am typing.
Finally, after making a lot of typos, I give them a few loving rubs, tell them that yes, they are the center of the universe, then push them on their merry way but I know that soon,
one or the other will always return to assume the position.

Dexter loves to plop down on my right hand that controls the mouse.
I had to move him just to write this post and that's not easy,
he is 16lbs of muscle and fur.
Oh no...he's coming back...
gotta go.
Meow!
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post #2 of 31
11/25/07 at 6:34am
I know this is real common. Jazzy used to do it. Peaches and Maxx don't. But Peaches likes to lay on the all-in-one printer while I'm on the computer. It only makes it difficult when I'm trying to print or scan something.
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post #3 of 31
11/25/07 at 6:39am
Beauty loves either sitting on my lap when I'm on the computer or if she can't get up she'll stand on the floor and tap my leg or rub round everywhere until she gets some strokes/ chin rubs/ head scratches/ whatever she decides she's after.
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post #4 of 31
11/25/07 at 7:02am
Kit likes to "type"
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post #5 of 31
11/25/07 at 9:09am
It's so funny to read this post today! Night before last Zoe had to come up on the desk and decide how she could help me best.....
(sorry for the pic quality...lights were off and I didn't use flash, so I could only lighten them up a bit)

I'm sure this looks very familiar to all of you too!
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post #6 of 31
11/25/07 at 9:13am
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Zoe has the right idea.

Do you think that our kitties think that we are their captives when we are at our computers?
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post #7 of 31
11/25/07 at 11:02am
It's often an attention thing,all the human slaves' focus is on the monitor and not on the kit.
Kit. wants the attention,best way to get it-sit in front of monitor as focus will then be transferred to them.
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post #8 of 31
11/25/07 at 11:11am
Lilly likes to think that she is working on the computer. As soon as she hears me start to work in the morning she runs into my studio, gets on my lap and puts her paw onto the keyboard. (see my signature pic)

She'll sit there for at least 30 seconds before her little head falls down and she goes to sleep. On a good day she can make at least a minute before sleeping. Occasionally she'll hit the wrong keys and delete what I've just done, but mostly she just supervises.
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post #9 of 31
11/25/07 at 11:16am
I think it has got to be a "cat thing"! Ophelia likes to rub her bum in my face, thouhg.
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post #10 of 31
11/25/07 at 12:09pm
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You guys are cracking me up with your cat & computer tails.
I can see that I am not alone here.
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post #11 of 31
11/25/07 at 12:25pm
Sho helps DH. He'll stand on the keyboard tray for a while then settles down on top of the keyboard (and any hands in the way), somehow always finding the page down key with a paw -or more likely..his butt.
DH rarely ever bothers to move him.
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post #12 of 31
11/25/07 at 12:41pm
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Originally Posted by white cat lover View Post
I think it has got to be a "cat thing"! Ophelia likes to rub her bum in my face, thouhg.
That's Seamus... he paces back and forth on the desk, and makes sure if I'm leaning forward enough that he gets my nose with his back end...

Other times he'll sit on my hand, try to get at the printer when it's open and on, sticking his paw in looking for paper to come out, he'll smack me in the head, or just stand in front of my face... I wonder what it is about computers...
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post #13 of 31
11/25/07 at 3:40pm
Junior also bugs me when I'm on the computer. He jumps up on the desk, walks back and forth between me and the monitor and bats at the pointer on the screen if I move it. If I shoo him away, he'll curl up right behind my chair wheels. I've learned to do a 360 and look for him before rolling anywhere.

My Dad thinks it has to do with my back being to the room and to Junior. However, since I have a big corner desk I'm not about to turn it just to see if he's right or not.

Mez
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post #14 of 31
11/25/07 at 11:14pm
Chase likes to stand in front of the computer, too.. or if I've got it on the bed (I have a laptop), he'll lay in front of it, often on one of my arms.. silly boy. The other thing he likes to do is to rub his face against the top corner of it.
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post #15 of 31
11/25/07 at 11:33pm
Hi,
My Nacho also loves jumping on to the table and walking across my laptop and sitting at the table.I think he wants to be with me and it's the same whereever i am.I don't think its a thing with computers.
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post #16 of 31
11/26/07 at 5:48am
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Usually, when at our computers, we are relatively still and in an accessible position for our kitties to meet us face to face.

Don't you wish that we could see the world from our kitties point of view just one time.
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post #17 of 31
11/26/07 at 7:09am
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I've learned to do a 360 and look for him before rolling anywhere.
I have gotten in that habit too....Zoe's bad about laying right under the chair....YIKES!
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post #18 of 31
11/26/07 at 7:13am
Both Gracie and Casey like to stand or sit between me and the monitor. Gracie has even learned how to unplug the computer!
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post #19 of 31
11/26/07 at 7:15am
lol David like to get inbetween me and the monitor and swat me with his tail
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post #20 of 31
11/26/07 at 8:47am
Aristotle likes the monitor and often naps up there. But he has been known to want lovins' by standing between me and the monitor.
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post #21 of 31
11/26/07 at 11:59pm
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Originally Posted by xocats View Post

I know that I am not alone with this challenge of kitties and computers.
I use a desk top.
When I sit at my desk, it's like on open invitation for Sadie and Dexter to stand between my face and the monitor.
They jump up on my desk, and just stand there.
If I am in the middle of a PM or post, I have to look around them to see what I am typing.
OMG!!! Berach and Chloe are THE WORST. If I'm lucky they'll lay down, but usually... I'm not lucky
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post #22 of 31
11/27/07 at 12:09am
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Originally Posted by mezlo View Post
Junior also bugs me when I'm on the computer. He jumps up on the desk, walks back and forth between me and the monitor and bats at the pointer on the screen if I move it.
haha Berach does this also...
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post #23 of 31
11/27/07 at 1:50am
Walk away and come back to this:



Niktia also has a tendency to try to unplug the laptop (my laptop is an ibm thinkpad, a friend was visiting with the mac laptop) and she likes to walk all over the keys as well. She's getting better but it's been quite a bit of a struggle at times.

Once she had figured out that I didn't let her walk onto the laptop from the sides so she jumped over the monitor from behind intending to land on the keyboard except she misjudged it and her back legs got caught by the top of the laptop screen so she slammed it down on my fingers.

Cats..
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post #24 of 31
11/27/07 at 4:30am
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Niktia has seized control of your Think Pad.

Way to go Niktia.
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post #25 of 31
11/27/07 at 6:28pm
I've been pretty lucky! Winchester & Geronimo have tried to get in my way a few times, but were pretty good about getting down when I told them to...although when I had my WebTV for my internet service, Geronimo would sit on my lap where I had the keyboard (it was a remoteless one, with no mouse to use). I have pics of him doing so..

~KK~
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post #26 of 31
11/27/07 at 6:58pm
my millie loves to stand on my keyboard. the other day she got screens to pop up i've never even seen before!
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post #27 of 31
11/27/07 at 8:08pm
I just have to say IM NOT ALONE Lets see on my laptop which I am on frequently literally every time I go on it I get either Blue, Bella, or Stormie on top of it! What was funny though was while I was reading this thread Stormie jumped on the computer and postponed my post I am never alone when it comes to going on the computer usually I find my self in the weirdest position sitting just to get around the cats Uh oh gotta go here comes Stormie
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post #28 of 31
11/27/07 at 10:17pm
Mi-ke loves to lie on my Powerbook keyboard sometimes. I always know when she's done it because I can hear this loud beeping from the speaker keys. I've found all sorts of weird Google searches afterwards. She's typed things into IM windows, and she's changed my homepage. It's bizarre. I always wonder what she's trying to do.
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post #29 of 31
11/28/07 at 4:44am
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It looks like we humans, who are owned by our kitties, are in this computer and cats thing together.
Meow!
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post #30 of 31
11/28/07 at 6:30am
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Originally Posted by rushrulz View Post
Mi-ke loves to lie on my Powerbook keyboard sometimes. I always know when she's done it because I can hear this loud beeping from the speaker keys. I've found all sorts of weird Google searches afterwards. She's typed things into IM windows, and she's changed my homepage. It's bizarre. I always wonder what she's trying to do.
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