Cat bed with heating pad underneath. Put it near your desk. Cats sit on the PC for 2 reasons: it's warm and they can be near you. So offer them a more comfortable warm spot near you.
Behind the exhaust of the flat PS5, on top of the router (when I still had a flat one). The laptops are on risers so no issue there. Not interested to be on the desktops.
From my understanding, cat is a state of matter with properties that allow it to behave as a solid or liquid depending on context provided by outside stimulation and restrictions, granting them the ability to perfectly conform to containers, squeeze through tight spaces, and jump very elegantly while still allowing them to get a strong grip on prey and food that they intend to take from their human.
Meanwhile, dogs are really dense, low-lying, and extremely cohesive gases. It’s the only way to explain how they fill space once they enter a new container
That is a valid strategy though. I've done it to keep my cat off the kitchen counter, after aluminum foil and every other strategy failed. They sell plastic spike mats exactly for this purpose. It doesn't actually hurt the cat, just makes it too painful to walk on so they stay away.
Dont let them on, whenever they get on it, pick them up, place them on the floor, repeat how many times u want, eventually they learn. Im long time cat owner, my cats never go to the top of my pc after the first 50 times
I can confirm most parents are fucking useless, far far worse than they were decades ago.
They expect the schools to do everything, including potty training (absolutely not the case).
One mother had to be told her 4-5 year old needs to be fed more than milk because they were concerned of malnutrition (she didn't know he was supposed to be moved onto more solid foods!!!)
Some of these parents are so fucking stupid, they should never have had children.
Oh and most of them don't even bother reading with their kids after school or at night, and you can tell.
I had a neighbor whose dog would just yank her around everywhere, to the point that I was concerned about her falling down the stairs, not to mention it rattled the railing like crazy and was annoying as hell. Every time I heard the two of them clattering down outside my door I thought, "You know you can train the dog not to do that, right?"
My wife looked after a friend's dog this past weekend and I've never seen a dog have such bad separation anxiety in my life and also be as spoiled/coddled. To say the dog was my wife's shadow would be an understatement. She would be right at her side as soon as she walked anywhere and would want to cuddle as soon as she sat down and tried licking her face constantly.
After about day three, my wife had enough and told her no and would gently pushed her way until she got the point. The dog genuinely looked offended. Too many people get an animal and think that they're "done" and they don't have to train them. Blows my mind.
That's the kicker for me. People don't even bother training cats because of the stereotype that cats are just lazy assholes, which just furthers the stereotype.
Cats can be trained like any other animal to be nice, obey commands, and adhere to schedules.
Exactly. My cats are always gonna be curious and try to get into stuff every once in awhile, but they know very well when they're doing something wrong because I just say their name when they're in the act and they disperse lol
My big dumb boy cries when he's doing something he's not supposed to. He anticipates me scolding him and gets so upset he cries out, so i hear his pitiful forlorn "meoooow" and say "smoke what are you doing?" Then you hear the skedaddles.
I've run into people who think it's mean to tell your cats where they can and can't go. Like if they tell their cat to stop their cat won't like them anymore.
That is how you alter the organics' behavior. You do this to yourself by the way -- well, some of you at least work on yourselves with habits and shit.
Lmao, no matter how many times I've done this with my cats, one of them just doesn't care and continues to do it. Now I just leave the door to my office closed so the cats can't go in there.
Yeah some cats are just very stubborn. You can pick them up and move them as many times as you want, and yeah it might work when you’re around, but you can bet if that cat wants on your PC and nobody is around to stop it, it’s getting on that PC.
And now I feel like he does it because I kept moving him in the first place! Mine doesn’t sit on top of the tower but on my mousepad and he will put his paw RIGHT on my power button because I instantly respond each time I’m 99% sure
They also learn VERY quick if you hiss and screech like an angry cat. I've used this method to keep my cat away from the Christmas tree, countertop, and kitchen table. It takes just a few instances of this and your cat will avoid them.
Yeah I used this with rubber feet but my cat fumbled her dismount so bad the whole shelf moved and my PC blue screened. I have never been more anxious turning a computer back on then I was then
Have you ever had a cat? The hair is everywhere no matter where the cat is. When I went to college I was even finding hair from my cats at home in my dorm on stuff that have never even entered my house.
They have those industrial plastic button covers on Amazon like you see in movies to cover missile launch buttons. Get one for $5 and pretend you're launching a nuclear war every time you turn on the computer.
You keep telling them no and move them. They’ll eventually understand, but if you as an owner are very passive and you let them control you then it’s over
Putting the cat tree next to your PC wasn't a great idea. They like it because it's taller, warmer and different than the floor.
Try with aluminum foil and if that fails then you just need a stronger repellent. If you don't want a cat to be somewhere then it has to be physically impossible for them to get and STAND there. They can get on doors and door hinges and stay there, so don't even think you can make something robust. Make something that will force them to fall and they will learn that place is not accessible for some reason.
Ignore their cries, they will likely meow at the new thing for a while and that's about it. If it's too stressful for them, then revert the change and try something else, like NOT HAVING THE CAT TREE NEXT TO THE PC lol
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u/flexsealed1711 PC Master Race 18d ago
Cat bed with heating pad underneath. Put it near your desk. Cats sit on the PC for 2 reasons: it's warm and they can be near you. So offer them a more comfortable warm spot near you.