For thousands of years (OK, dozens), humans have wrestled with the question: Why do cats like to sleep on keyboards?
Is it for the warmth? To get our attention? To just be generally inconvenient and annoying? Or all of these things?
To keep keyboards cat-free, innovative minds have invented keyboard covers (left), and keyboard-shaped heaters for cats to use.
But sometimes, the simplest solution is often the best.
Hundreds of years, anyway – it’s documented that harpsichordists in the court of Louis the 16th were tormented by keyboard cats. (yes, I’m making that up).
Maybe you are, but I would totally believe it.
So, Mike, you’ve been collecting these images for how long? This is truly an essay on the mastery of cats to annoy but also to endear themselves to us. Hmmmm, maybe to a cat keyboards are tanning beds?
The cat’s expression in the last photo…
Cat’s sense of entitlement is just breathtaking – “even when I’m unconscious/not paying attention to you, you need to pay attention to me!
For the final reveal, I thought we were going to buy kitty their own laptop. Easier solution.
If you laid ten keyboards end to end, would one cat manage to occupy them all?
Let’s just say he would certainly try. And if it were a Maine Coon, he’d come pretty durn close!
Terpsichore,
It’s when the limp cats fall sleep on me,
In their feline dreams,
They find themselves,
Their cat-alogues,
Their fur-niture
Their private files go dancing free,
Their warmth, their dreams, the all and everything that they can ever be,
When they simply lay their bodies over “any key”,
Terpsichore…. terps-a-scihoreee.