I'm sitting here at my laptop, trying to figure out what to write, and at the moment I'm dealing with just about all the help I can handle. Two of my cats are hovering nearby, poking at my keyboard, and sniffing the screen, trying their absolute best to disrupt anything resembling work or fun. If it's work they don't figure you really need to be doing it anyway, and if it's fun, they want in on it, or you should stop it already. Fair is fair, you know.
Cats are like that. They have an overwhelming desire to share themselves with you completely, but only when your hands are busy doing something. It doesn't matter what it is, if you are busy doing something other than pursuing the cat, (which gives him an excuse to ignore you completely) he will do his best to either distract you, or work against you. A casual stroll across a keyboard while writing is in progress is an adequate way to distract the writer from writing, and a wet nose pressed against a plasma screen will certainly create some writer distraction, because it distorts the screen just enough to make the writer wonder just exactly what those crazy words are supposed to mean.
If cats could speak they would tell us how it is, what rules we humans should be following, and what "fun" things we should be doing. We would certainly be instructed not to do anything without "help" and the cat's philosophy that power cords are food would have to be followed to the letter. Power cords are fun to chew on anyway, but the ones actually powering something in use at the moment, are definate pluses.
From the cat's point of view, the word, "no" would be removed permanently from the language, whichever language you happen to be speaking at the moment. That word would be replaced with, "sure, kitty, go ahead and do whatever you please since you're going to anyway the second my back is turned". Once that little rule is firmly established, everything else is just details.
Cats are fun, funny, furry and cute, loving, lovable, and a necessary part of many families. Without them, what would we humans do with our time? That's easy, we would work way too hard. We would mop floors, and vaccuum rugs. We would dust furniture and knick-knacks, and keep things neatly organized, which is appalling to a cat because organization works against the cat's very nature. They prefer a mess so that when they dance around atop your bookshelves and tables, if something falls on the floor you won't notice it so quickly and they have time to make a getaway.
That's just another little rule they wish we would follow so that the household runs more smoothly. After all, it's the cat that owns the home not you. If you remember that one little rule first and foremost, you and your cats will get along just fine. Besides, your cat doesn't ask for much in rent, just your undivided whole attention twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.....forever. That's not so bad is it?
