Monty and Vinni must feel that my hands and arms are over active. They can hardly wait for me to get into a position where they can climb onto my hand and/or arm and lock it down into a mode where only my fingers can move. This would be the 'typing on laptop while sitting on couch' postition prefered by my cats. And though I spend a lot of time typing this way without a thought, there are times when it get a little irritating to have one cat laying across my left wrist while the other has control of the right wrist. Occasionally I shake one or the other off, but in less than a minute I am again afflicted with purring arm weights on both arms. I have been asked how I can do anything with cats laying across my arms and hands like that, how do I stand it. To be honest I am not really sure, first it takes me a while to realize what has happened. I think I am so used to it that it doesn't occure to me until I want to scratch my nose or something that I can't move my arms. I also believe that some sort of mutation has taken place where my fingers can now type with heavy objects laying on them. There are times when I could swear I have grown extra fingers and then realize it is just a paw adding a few key strokes of its own. I believe the cats consider this biological evolution at its finest.
Oh, how I remember that happening! I used to have cats, till I got too allergic to them. I didn't have a laptop in those days, but I might be trying to read, or crochet, and they'd be there, lending a 'helping' paw.
ReplyDeleteThe most fun for them, was when I'd spread a paper pattern out on my fabric on the floor. They seemed to think it was specially for their benefit. It didn't matter where they were when I started, they'd appear as if by magic to walk all over the pattern, knock over the pot of pins and play with the tape measure. I still remember the look of wounded bewilderment as I tried to shoo them off.
'But we came to help you!!'
LOL!
I would lay my cloth and pattern out on the floor as well and they would shake their little behinds back and forth getting ready for a pounce and the dive 'under' the fabric turning into a pile. Not good for the paper pattern at all. Very funny though. Cats have a great sense of humor. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhen they were around it would take me twice as long to cut something out.