Solutions to cat puzzles?
Jul. 17th, 2003 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triskellianI've cleared some of the superfluous stuff up in the study, which means there's now room to swap the two desk chairs over without having to lift them. Cat C is still not entirely happy about this; her chair of preference is the one next to the window. Which also happens to be the one I'm mostly sitting at. Whenever I get up, she leaps over from the inferior chair to the window one (the two chairs are pretty much identical in everything but their position in the room). We tried her sitting on my lap for a while, but she's not too happy about me typing, and I'm not too happy about her digging her claws into my thighs whenever I shift slightly to avoid my legs going to sleep.
My next solution was to place the desktop fan on the window chair when I'm only getting up for a short time - to get water, or to answer the phone or something - which works quite well, because the base of the fan takes up too much space to leave any for cat C.
There's still a problem, though. She spots me returning to the chair and removing the fan, and in the time between me lifting the fan and sitting in the chair, she's there. So currently she's stetched out along the back of the chair, and I'm perched on the edge. She seems to be comfortable. I'm not.
My next solution was to place the desktop fan on the window chair when I'm only getting up for a short time - to get water, or to answer the phone or something - which works quite well, because the base of the fan takes up too much space to leave any for cat C.
There's still a problem, though. She spots me returning to the chair and removing the fan, and in the time between me lifting the fan and sitting in the chair, she's there. So currently she's stetched out along the back of the chair, and I'm perched on the edge. She seems to be comfortable. I'm not.
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Date: 2003-07-17 08:23 am (UTC)Er, can I point out the obvious ? Unless something's gone badly wrong in the world, you're a lot bigger than she is.
Exert your authority :)
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Date: 2003-07-17 08:27 am (UTC)This really does make all the difference ;)
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Date: 2003-07-17 10:27 am (UTC)Darn straight it does. Cats can't open doors.
You are in august company
Date: 2003-07-17 10:46 am (UTC)Cardinal Richelieu left provision for 14 cats in his will.
The great Isaac Newton is reported to have invented the cat-flap. Irked by his two cats constantly demanding access to his study, he had two holes cut. One for the big cat, one for the little cat.
Of course cats can open doors, in the same way that cats obtain chicken mayonnaise sandwiches. They get their servants to do it ;-)
Re: You are in august company
Date: 2003-07-17 12:34 pm (UTC)The small cat didn't fit through the big hole, eh ?
Smart bloke, Newton. Very smart.
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Date: 2003-07-17 12:24 pm (UTC)But what I did eventually was swap the chairs round and sit in the other one.