I was just curious if anyone on CC has pets that like to interfere with their work on the computer (or anything else).
Our cat, Nuisance, likes to sit in my lap while I'm on the computer. As long as I am not typing, she's fine. As soon as I start using the keyboard, she pushes it away from me! If that doesn't work, then she puts her paw on the keys.
I certainly can't leave anything she hasn't seen on the desk or it's a toy. She's not allowed to climb on the desk, but she tries.
This is just a silly thread, but Nuisance just got down from my lap and gave me a dirty look because I was typing too much. 
I'd love to read stories from others about their pet's personalities. We have a dog also that provides us with plenty of stories. Maybe I'll add some of those later.
Thanks,
Michele
Sounds like my cat Cookie. When I'm working on bills, writing checks, he likes to lay on the check book or all over my paperwork that I have spead on the kitchen counter(where he's not suppose to be in the first place). When I'm on the laptop, he will sometimes jump onto the table and simply sit down right on the keyboard!
What would we ever do without them though! 
Michele, I love your cat's name! I have a cat named Oreo, who loves to lay on my books...while I'm trying to read them! If I move her off of the book and hold it up to read it, she'll knock it out of my hands with her head. She also goes crazy when I make spaghetti for dinner. She meows and circles through my legs until she gets some. I had to start putting her in the basement while I cook spaghetti because I didn't want her close to the food. I feel mean everytie I do it.
I also have a scottie dog named Willow, but she's pretty normal.
Another thing about Nuisance is how vocal she is. When she wants fresh water, she fusses at us until we put fresh water in her bowl. She won't drink it if it has cat food in it. SHE'S the one flicking the food into it!
She also tattles on everyone in the family, including the dog. If anyone is not doing what they are supposed to be at a certain time, she locates me and points the way to the troublemaker.
We got her as a stray, another weird story, but she's very sweet. My husband calls her Slinky because she stretches to over 30 inches. She only weighs about 8 pounds.
Thanks for the stories. They are fun to read.
Michele
My chihuahua Oscar is the same way, he thinks he needs to be in my lap at all times! And if the laptop happens to be in my lap, he will just sit right down on top of it and start hitting the keys with his paw. I just ask him "Are you serious?" ...He's such a little attention-whore! You'd think with playing with the kids all day he'd get his fill, but nope, he's a Mama's baby (and that's okay because I don't know what I'd do without my little dog to follow me around all day)! Here he is, smiling for the camera lol.
~Carrie
Oh my 
Where should I begin???? Every cat and dog I have has a slew of funny habits, traits and stories!!!!
Lets see, I'll start with Matilda. She's an 11 year old Pembroke Welsh Corgi. And she is a hoot!!!! To scratch her back she flips over on her back and throws her back legs up in the air repeatly and twists her hindend back and forth. She looks like she's having a fit of some sort. It's really a funny sight to see.
Now there's Belle. She's a 3 year old Yellow Lab. You always know when Belle has been a bad girl 
She tells on herself. She does this thing with her eyes. We called it "sweet eyes" She blinks them real fast at you and you know it means trouble.
I'll have to post later about the cats. K'ly
K'ly, LOL about the sweet eyes... Oscar does something we call giving us "sweet eyes" too... He doesnt usually do it when he's done something wrong (for that he just automatically goes to his bed and avoids us lol!), but he especially likes to do it at dinner. He will squint his eyes almost shut at us, and turn his head to one side. Then he'll open his eyes and blink real fast, and then squint them again and look from our faces to our food over and over. Hilarious!
When he "needs to be a good boy", aka, go outside, he will come stand in front of us and spin as fast as he can, like he's chasing his tail. It's so funny. You can say "Do you need to be a good boy?" and he will either spin or not. Even my 3 year old can tell me if Oscar needs to go pee!
Another more recent thing he's been doing is that when I let him lay in bed with me (my husband wont let him in the bed if he's in there too), he will lay on his back, with his head on my pillow and his arms flung out over the blankets, just like a person. And if I get too close to his "side" of the pillow, he stiff-arms me so that I cant move over. ...But since he knows that my husband makes him get out of the bed, at night, when my husband is done watching tv downstairs or playing his Xbox, as soon as Oscar hears the recliner go down, he jumps right out of bed and runs downstairs and goes and gets in his bed.
Our beagle, Sugar, is extremely emotional. She is definitely my husband's dog. If she sees him pet the cat, she gets very jealous. Several years ago, a different cat the I had was sitting on my husband's chest as he watched TV and Sugar was on her rug by the door because it was cold outside. Sugar started boo-hooing. She was sobbing. After he petted her to make her feel better, she quit crying. A few minutes later she looked at him from across the room and then turned her head. Every time we made her upset she gives us the cold shoulder.
When he comes home from work Sugar about loses her mind. She howls this really high pitched, crazy sound that can be heard for blocks! When it's time for her walk she nearly pulls him out the door, but drags when they are almost home.
The strangest thing is that both critters seem to know when it's 9 p.m. Sugar wants to come inside to sleep and Nuisance wants to go out for the night. Both of them let us know what time it is. Even the time change doesn't seem to affect them. 9 o'clock is 9 o'clock.
Both our pets are very vocal, emotional, and fussy. Everything has to be just right. Any changes puts them both into a panic. It's really kind of funny.
Keep telling your stories. They are really making my day!
Michele
My 9 y-o Maltese dog, Pootchi (now you know where I found my nickname) is acting like like an old man. Laying on the couch (actually on the top of the couch) looking outside and growling at everyone, not barking, just like in the movies when old men are growling about everyone that passes their houses...
He too, spin around when he needs to go outside weird?!
When I was still living with my parents, my mom had a cat that never made the sound MEOW, never. She thought she was a pigeon, no kidding, when she was getting vocal, you could swear that there was a pigeon in the house. And when she was angry she barked, I'm not crazy, you should ask my mom, it's true!!! She actually barked! Even when she was in heat she didn't make the same sound as other cats. Usually you hear a sound like the cats are calling "Bernard" or something that sounds like this, but her no!!! she maybe thought that bernard had too many girlfriends because she was asking for "Raoul" I know it's weird but hey, it's all true!!!! I lived with that cat...
I have got the sweetest dog Sophie, she's a Westie. She has to be right up under me at all times. Not too long ago I tripped on her in the kitchen and dropped my freshly bake cake in the floor. Bless her. Everymorning the routine never changes. . .She gets up, stretches, heads outside to potty, gets her bone and runs as hard and as fast as she can around and around the couch growling at her bone. It is the funniest sight!
Here's my Soph. My DD saud she's kill me if I posted a pic of her. Like the smiley face? hahah
Elle
Anyone that has ever seen The Pirates Of The Caribbean, can appreciate this...
I have a 13 yo Grey Tabby named Rascals. And quit frankly, he STINKS. He's old and stinky!!! 
Well, I have a new kitten that he apparently thinks needs a daily bath and he licks him all over Here's the POTC part, we call him (Rascals) The Cracken/Beastie And after he bathes the kitten we say, OH NO, OLIVER(kitten) you've been slimmed by THE CRACKEN K'ly
I love animal stories! And I have so many... I'll start with my cat, Tess (short for Tessellation... I'm a math dork, leave me alone 
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Tess used to attack the cursor moving on the laptop screen, but got over that when she found out she couldn't catch it. Now she has moved onto stealing every hair tie in the house. After she "catches" and plays with them for a while, they will end up in her water dish (I think she has 3 of them in there right now). She seems to think that if she drowns them, they can't escape. She will also take one of the hair ties in her collection and bring it to me to play fetch. If I don't pay attention, I get the hair tie thrown at me. Not fun when they are wet...
Whenever I study math, Tess seems to think that my math text book must die. Sometimes I wonder if it is because I named her after something mathematical... She has decided my book bag is in fact hers (see picture if I manage to attach it). She spent 5 minutes one day trying to break into it. She eventually got it unzipped and crawled inside.
Also, if you are near her and look at her when she doesn't want you to, you get smacked in the face (her claws are not out) and a disgusted look from her like "mind your own business".
I'm sort of dreading the cooler months coming up. Whenever someone wears long sleeves, Tess turns into a vampire kitty.
Would Tess, by any chance be a CALICO??? K'ly
Yep! After realizing I didn't have anything but baby pictures of her (she's not even a year old yet) I took another pic. Tess has recently developed this "poof" to her. She now looks like she has no neck and is chubby, but she's not! Just longer hair, I guess, and the white is longer than the brown and tan. She didn't like posing, I woke her from a nap.
That is our bichon in the background... and... his name is Bichon.
I have two Weimaraners (my avatar is a picture of one of them, Jade). They are about 70 lbs. My husband and I both work and we put the dogs outside in the morning before we leave. Some mornings Jade does not want to get out of bed and when she sees one of us coming she will lie down on her pillow on the floor, roll over onto her back, and stick her legs straight up in the air so that she can't be moved.
Another thing that our crazy dogs do is when we are gone and they are left in the house they will sleep on our bed. They know that they are not allowed to be on the bed, but they do it anyway. When we return home and they hear our car pull-up in the driveway and key unlocking the door, they will jump down from the bed, run to their kennels, and pretend they were sleeping there the whole time. We know the truth though because the comforter on the bed is messed up and there are warm spots from where they were laying!
One more crazy thing. One of our dogs loves, loves to sniff the cracks in our back yard. (We live in New Mexico and the ground gets really dry in the summer and cracks.) We let her outside and the first thing she does is runs to a crack and sniffs. She will literally stand at a crack for hours at a time. I am not sure if she is smelling bugs or lizards, but it has become an addiction and she is obsessed. Anyway, we call her our crack dog. People will ask what she is doing and we tell them that our dog is on crack!
Oh my god how funny as I am reading this thread, my mini daschund Scotty, comes and pushes me to try and get on my lap! He loves to sit on my lap and when I use my laptop he comes up and pushes the laptop t away so he can lay in it's place! Animals are great companions! Can't imagine life without mine. 
well I just had to add to this thread ... we have two cats one is a Siamese cat and the other is a calico cat .. well when my dh and I were dating he gave me this tiny bear maybe about four inches tall about two or three inches wide .. he sits on his butt and his feet and arms stick straight out .. hes brown with slightly curly hair on him .. he also wears a white t shirt that has my dh's college initials on it .. well our siamese really has a problem with that bear .. when she was just a few weeks old she started carrying around this bear in her mouth .. and shes done it all along but up until about two years ago she did it lovingly, then all of a sudden she just started hating this bear with a passion ... she throws him in the air and bats at him with such detest .. well my dh and I think this is really funny so what we do is pick up this little bear and pet his head and say things like .. ohh we loooooooove this bear hes so cute we just looooooooooooove him .. and our siamese cat will be standing there but then pull her head back and her ears lay down really flat and her eyes are so massive .. lol it is really hard to explain but its so funny!!!!! I know you guys will think Im crazy for doing that but if you could just see it .. 
our other cat is really good at spotting any little bugs in our house, you know gnats that came through the window screens that can't even be seen with the human eye .. anyways one day she was running after this fly that got caught in our house, and when she finally hit it with her paw I went over there to dispose of the fly, well she wasnt done with it, and he wasnt' dead yet either .. so she ended up swallowing the dang fly, and when I picked her up, I could hear the fly buzzing in her belly!!! LOL
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