Keeping everyone close
Laptops tend to run warm/hot and their fans exhaust warm air as well.
They are kitten magnets.
This morning, after Auggie had his way with my laptop, the keyboard was not working at all. It clicked, but no keystrokes. I had no idea how to restore it.
I rebooted and hoped.
Thankfully, that worked.
Auggie is in the sunroom during the day. Since the sunroom is also my office, I’m in the sunroom for a good part of the day also.
Auggie’s naps have been coinciding with the times Bear and I are typically outside and on a run in the Jeep for a walk off the property AND sometimes, I just leave the room and spend some time with Bear. I did the reverse when Bear was first here, i.e. left Bear and spent time with Bob.
Overnight, Auggie sleeps with me…and he is a cuddler extraordinare.
Although, I’ve tried to coax Bear into the bedroom, he has always preferred the living room chairs. Right now, I am glad. He takes to the bed and bedroom after I – and now Auggie, vacate, but for overnight, not. While I hope that the house divided is soon a house all together, for the moment everyone has their own happy space.
If you have a cat…and a laptop…and a bed…you might be able to put together the story from the photo below.
Auggie, aka Mr. Snuggly Cuddler, wanted to be in my arms.
I needed to get some work done. It IS Monday and work is what buys the kibble and toys and pays the vet, etc. but I also want to foster the bond and if I could, I would just sit and enjoy kitten days.
But.
So.
First, I tried putting the fleece cat bucket on the desk. Auggie has been playing in the bucket but so far has preferred the chair for his daytime naps.
But, I hoped that a snuggly place where he could see me…
Not.
So, I decided to make a sling thing out of a sheet so that he could be snuggled against me, but I would have use of both hands…for the typing on the computer which is how I work…
I was shaking out the sheet to make it into a roll for my sling…
Seriously, why I thought this would turn out differently, I do not know.
The sheet became a toy.
The sheet became a cat cave, cat tunnel and who knows what else Auggie imagined it to me.
Later, though…
Web cam photo so it is horrible and you can’t see the whole thing, but I was able to fashion an Auggie sling for this afternoon and he snoozed compatibly while I worked…after he got tired of watching the happenings on the monitor.