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Feline computer assistance

MattH — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:37:41 GMT

Our cat likes to help my wife and myself with our computers, but today she came up with a new trick.

Wife: Hey, how come my trackball isn't working?

Me: Because there's a cat toy between the ball and the rest of the device!

Wife: how did she manage THAT!?!?

Re: Feline computer assistance

haulingthescoreup — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:24:57 GMT

I had to switch to an optical mouse (from the trackball-style mouse that came with my desktop) due to accumulated cat fur that had rolled up inside of it.

By the time I pulled out all the fur, I could have built a small auxiliary back-up cat.

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Re: Feline computer assistance

MattH — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:20:02 GMT

@haulingthescoreup wrote:
I had to switch to an optical mouse (from the trackball-style mouse that came with my desktop) due to accumulated cat fur that had rolled up inside of it.

By the time I pulled out all the fur, I could have built a small auxiliary back-up cat.

My wife and I were away for the weekend; when I showed my wife how much fur I had just removed from the cat's favorite chair my wife exclaimed, "that's enough fur to make a new cat!"

Re: Feline computer assistance

barbaralee — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:38:56 GMT

My cat isn't much of a toy animal. Playing with a toy would mean she's playng by herself, and she much prefers the attention of some hapless human. She's a good girl, except for the whole " I love you so much I'll kill for you" thing she has going on. At least once a week I have to scrape off our porch some disemboweled squirrel that she lovingly presents at our front door. D:

Re: Feline computer assistance

haulingthescoreup — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:14:32 GMT

barbaralee wrote:
My cat isn't much of a toy animal. Playing with a toy would mean she's playng by herself, and she much prefers the attention of some hapless human. She's a good girl, except for the whole " I love you so much I'll kill for you" thing she has going on. At least once a week I have to scrape off our porch some disemboweled squirrel that she lovingly presents at our front door. D:

Our cats proudly present us with critters and parts. "Critters" if we can make an educated guess as to what it once was; "parts" if it looks like a tiny version of the mystery contents of the plastic bags in frozen turkeys.

Re: Feline computer assistance

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:48:19 GMT

My cat neatly brings us the heads of mice. She lines them up one right next to the other.

Re: Feline computer assistance

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:41:50 GMT

My dad has a cat that can ring the door bell when it wants in. Well not really a door bell, but he hung a string with a bell attached at the end. When the cat wanted out she would swat the bell, my dad would then put the bell on the outside of the door and when the cat wanted back in she would swat the bell again. It works really good. She even trained another stray cat to ring the door-bell when it wants to come in. That bell is always ringing!!