Cat or kittens on the keys? I would be glad if those who suffer from this terrible disorder would help me a bit. How do you get the paws off the keyboard? I read the other day (can't remember where) that someone else has this problem, but no solution. I also read that a man shot his portable computer quite deliberately. It is now 11 pm and I am ready for bed (as I always am) and just playing with the computer for a few minutes before I turn in for the night. My cat was waiting and jumped up to my keyboard at the same time. She purred and got cuddled (of course) and only now (after about 10 minutes) has she got off.
I find that picking my cat up and gently setting him on the floor works fine for me (sometimes you have to do it more than once). I think I read somwhere that the reason cats get on books, keyboards, newspapers is because you are looking at the item or giving it attention that the cat feels it deserves instead.
Or just beat on it with a brick*. It'll get the point much faster. *Contrary to popular belief I have never done that to a cat.
If you guys only knew the dark half of my life. Anyways. Whenever my bearded dragon jumps on the keyboard I just move him off of it. Cats/other animals I just set them on the floor or kick them out of the computer room.
I'm not so sure I want to, Snake. What about that evil mother of yours? I'm sure she had more than just a hand in the shaping of things. I now regret not having kept at least one of those four kittens I found a couple months ago. Just what was I smoking then?
I'm sure most people don't want to hear it. As for your kitten incident: I could always ship you a cute kitten this spring.
You might consider using Pavlov's reinforcement idea. For example, I would recommend this. Get a dummy keyboard, and place it in front of your computer. When the cat sits on it, spray it with water. If your cat sits anywhere but on your keyboard, give her a small treat OCCASIONALLY. Basically it causes reenforcement on your cat that if she sits anywhere else but on the desk or keyboard, they may get a treat and that if they sit on the keyboard or desk, they get attacked with water
i just knock it off the keyboard and if/when it comes back i go lock it upstairs so that i CAn be down here alone.
I just don't let the little cretins...er, creatures...into the computer room with me! And that includes the cats...
I agree with Col Froggie. I do put her on the floor, but she jumps back again, usually twice. I am sure she is saying 'What are you trying to get rid of me for? Don't you love me any more?' And she was the cat who spent the first three months at our house living outside, but now she sleeps with me, as does my oldest dog. I don't agree with 'dogs law'. It is said that dogs only know that they have done wrong by being beaten for doing it. I don't agree with that. I think a dog learns better through never having been beaten for anything. None of our dogs have ever been beaten and yet the Spring Spaniel (particularly) is so obedient. The first time I took him out I told him to stay and forgot him. He was still there after I had walked a mile or so and back again. I never shall do that again. Kay Kavendish was the pianist that I remember during the war as being 'kitten on the keys' - playing music on the radio. Perhaps it was a British thing? Dogs are very much better than people.
I have three cats (and this is one, Cutter! :whitekitty: ) and I manage to keep them off the keyboard... mostly. My tactic is probably bad though, I let them sit on ME instead of the keyboard! So I often end up with one sitting on my lap, often on my ARM as well so it's pinning me down as I try to move the mouse, while another cat is perched on the back of my computer chair slowly sliding down onto my HEAD! But this leaves me only with the occasional stretched paw to cuddle back off of the keyboard area as I'm attempting to work and give the cats attention at the same time....
What a lot of spoiled cats. I say that who has never spoiled a cat in his life. Actually I'll have to be quiet because one of my cats is not three feet away, but asleep at present.
Should should should!!! It's not like I can adopt a kitty at a local shelter or anything... or maybe I'm just too lazy. Watch out Philip, cats are more dangerous than we think. Snake knows what I'm talking about. *coughDiaryofACatcough*
