Kitten laying his claim to human stuff

[packman]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. This thing *mine*, human.

To use it you must pet me first.

[marylandblue]

2. Feed me or I'll send a nastygram to your boss.

[KansasKali]

3. I sitz on yur computa hooman!

I does maths now!

[luvtheGWN]

16. I was getting a lot of pixilations on my TV and thought I needed to

exchange my digital cable box. Talked to a clerk at the cable "store" and she asked me if I had a cat. I said "Yes, I have two". She asked me if they liked to sit on the cable box and I had to reply in the affirmative. "That's your problem. Vacuum out the box and your pixilations will disappear." I've been vacuuming it regularly ever since!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I used to have to take my old laptop to the Apple Store

to get the cat fur vacuumed out from under the keyboard. I wonder why?

[packman]

5. I had a calico that grew up laying across my old CRT monitor

and slept there as I wasted many an hour. He loved , I guess, the warmth of that big, bulky monitor. When I got a flat screen monitor, I think it broke his little heart. Looking back, I should have plugged that old one back in and let him enjoy himself.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Did you have a male calico? They are extremely rare.

I'm guessing she really enjoyed the warmth of that old CRT. Back in the '80s when PCs were just starting to become available I knew a guy who built his own "mainframe," which was a big metal box that put out a lot of heat. His cat liked to sleep on it, but one dry winter day there was so much static electricity in the cat's fur that all the stored data in that thing was zapped and erased. The cat was thereafter banned from that room.

[packman]

8. OF course, brain freeze - coming too often nowadays

Annie, my calico sweetheart - carried her home from the mean streets of Pittsburgh in my coat pocket on a cold winter day and stayed with me for 16 years. Named her after the cartoon character, Little orphan Annie.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Aww! I love calicos, they have such cattitude.

[ailsagirl]

21. Torties, too

I've got two of my own.

They don't get along.

"sigh"

But they sure are gorgeous!!!

[crazycatlady]

23. Invest in a silicon keyboard cover

Saves my keyboard from so much grime and spilling things on it.

They're like $10 on Amazon.

[Butterflylady]

7. "What big eyes you have"

Adorable!!!!!

[procon]

9. You'll be sorry when she weighs 15 pounds and sprawls out on your keyboard

at a critical moment. And the hair... my keyboard looks like some folk art felt project. On the plus side, it's a well known fact that the body temperature of long haired cats will keep your coffee warmer than having no cat at all.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. The fifteen-pounder was why I had so much cat fur under the keyboard.

It's really hard to type around a great big hunk of cat.

[procon]

13. I have tried this method of slowly sliding the sleeping cat off the keyboard,

across the arm of the recliner and into my lap... still needs some improvement. I bought a teeny tiny mouse pad as a deterrent for my Phat Jack, but that plan also needs more work.

[Solly Mack]

12. Kitten doesn't need to lay claim - it's all his by default. He is Kitten!

[NastyRiffraff]

14. Cntrl-Alt-Del

Cats can figure that out and use it as a weapon.

[Mickju]

15. I was in a bad mood

This made me smile and now I feel better. Thank you!

[shenmue]

17. Squee

[no_hypocrisy]

18. Step back. That's MY mouse ! ! !

[red dog 1]

19. Kick for cuteness!

[ailsagirl]

20. Those large eyes say, "AND I MEAN IT!!!"

[FirstLight]

22. thanks I needed that!

...as I type with a cat leg thrown over my arm as he sprawls alongside on the table... flicking me with his tail to show disapproval at my typing movement