The redonkulousness continues
Keep your cat from writing to CuteOverload (i.e. get him off the keyboard!) with this HANDY kitteh bed shelf!
Anita D. and Matthew S., love the look on tha woman's face—she's NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!
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Keep your cat from writing to CuteOverload (i.e. get him off the keyboard!) with this HANDY kitteh bed shelf!
Anita D. and Matthew S., love the look on tha woman's face—she's NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!
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I'm gonna order me up one right now!
Does that thing swivel? It has GOT to swivel....
Um, that's cute and all, but obviously will not work. The reason kitteh is on the keyboard is because that's where your hands are! Great idea, though.
HAH! and they think this will work! Maybe on Chihuhuahuas. :>
yeah that's going to get them to stop walking on the keyboard and Huggy's going to stop sitting on my head at 6AM.
Eastie is absolutely correct. The concept is clever but pointless. Kitteh is not up there for companionship--he is up there to prevent you from doing anything that does not involve scratching his chin.
that's too removed from the action (teh humans) to be of any use. i recall one that was a platform for the top of the monitor, but with lcd monitors, that's kinda difficult.
The finer points of cat psycology have been grossly neglected. The cat will still sit on the keyboard unless you start sitting on the cat shelf yourself.
Positively silly! Just because you buy it the cat won't sit there... Now, if you put something you don't want him sitting on there...
Karen's right--the only way this will work is if you put the keyboard on the cat bed.
The gizmo itself looks like a fairly standard, but nice, wooden mail tray, with a custom-fitted pad. Nice idea, but as everyone else has already said, any self-respecting cat will sit on your keyboard/hand/papers/phone anyway.
It needs to go over the keyboard. Just high enough that kitteh cannot fit in.
As other posters have pointed out, the kitteh is not there for your amusement... he is there for *his* amusement.
Perhaps a hammock device?
Actually, Phantom, I have a similar setup, and it works : my keyboard is on a sliding shelf that fits under the desk. I can push it in just enough to make it really uncomfortabuhls for kittehs to perch on while still allowing me to type. So they settle for lounging on the desk above the keyboard, just under the screen. It works until they decide to get up - too much attention to the screen, not enough to them - or play with the cursor. You can't win. :))
Hovercat is hovering.
Does the big fat orange cat come with it? I really need another one. (Another BFOC, that is. The shelf, as others have pointed out already, would be useless.)
HA! Like that would work - brilliant idea though, I wonder if it were closer to the keyboard, within skritching distance if it would work better?
I bought one of those monitor trays many years ago when monitors were gigantic and it worked like a charm for my Calico, HOWEVER it didn't account for overhang...
http://www.thecaboose.net/carrie/midget2.jpg
Interesting concept. My cats won't sit on the keyboard, but they will try to sit to the right of the keyboard and then wind up leaning onto the number pad.
I think I just need to get a cat tree w/ two levels and put it near the desk.
Poohbear, that's why I was thinking of a hammock like device. As you typed, they feel the bumping of your knuckles. You get to type, they get feedback.
As far as the monitor problem, yes, that's a toughie. They want you to look at them. 8 hour invisi-potion?
But the cat can't type from that position.
i like the before and after pictures.
does the cat come with the shelf?
how much do you want to bet kitty will still prefer the keyboard!!?? lol
Ermine: Love the overhang! I splurted coffee onto my keyboard when I saw that. Ha!
I love how flowers magically appear and paperwork gets organized with the kitty bed shelf! lol :)
The idea is nice, but we all know this will not work...cats will always lay in the most inconvenient places no matter what kinds of cat-specific things we buy for them! What they really need is a DECOY KEYBOARD! A decoy off to the side so that kitty will lay on that one and leave your real one alone hehe :)
this is my life.
Let's call this by its real name: the kitty caddy
I am reading these comments through a thin haze of fine cat fur stuck to my monitor by static electricity. Sigh.
He doesn't lay on my keyboard--he walks back and forth across it, and then lays between the keyboard and the monitor, blocking my view.
Heh. My first reaction upon seeing this pic was "Yeah good luck with that".
Oh and my second reaction was: "Marmie!!!"
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*Cat-Like Typing Detected*
j/k, my roomie's cat knows to stay out of my bedroom with all the weak and defenseless stuffed animals on my bed.
TrumanRabbit -- if you're not already in marketing, you should be.
Agreed & well done.
The kitteh's all like, "Take a memo."
"Um, that's cute and all, but obviously will not work. The reason kitteh is on the keyboard is because that's where your hands are! Great idea, though."
Per-zackly. It's not because the keyboard's comfy, ad people. It's because the keyboard's getting more attention. Doggies who can't fit on the keyboard bounce your hands with their noses. Bunnies who can't quite make it to your lap stand up so you can juuust see little twitchy ears in your peripheral vision - again, and again, and again. It's not proximity; it's contact.
LOL! The cat looks like he's giving dictation to his secretary. I could actually so use one of these. *stares at my kitty eye-ing my keyboard*
KoD is correct. (darn cats)
...and one phone call taken in another room after this photo was taken, the cat is sleeping on the keyboard, burping up those pretty flowers.
Sorry folks, my blonde Persian, Farah, wouldn't have taken that opportunity for closeness-she would have given me a very funny look and plotted. Might as well use the Kittycaddie for a bookshelf for more desk room for the puddy. I'm sorry, it does seem like a good idea in theory. The 'bookshelf' idea might save the sales numbers.
even if there's no way this would ever work, I like the evidence of kitty typing on the monitor in the "before" shot...nice touch!
To go along with this nifty item there are 2 gadgets designed to
(1)keep your cat off of your keyboard:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/i.m-on-ur-keyboard,-ruining-ur-spreadsheets/pawsense-kitty-keyboard-kover-prevents-that-feline-from-typipppppffffffssss-260658.php
or
(2) detect that cat typing is taking place and block it:
http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/pawsense-faq.html
What we need are A/B switches for keyboards - you just have two keyboards, and when kitteh lays down on one, you use the other one.
Now, kittehs are crafty, they will figure out that you're using a different keyboard, and they'll eventually get tired of it and move. That's why a mere fake keyboard won't work. So you switch back.
How much was that cat paid in pounds of tuna to look all satisfied and content in that cat bed. I know of no cat who would fall for that.
But …
it is cute.
Ha, as I type this reply I have a cat sleeping across both my arms. My other cat likes to lay on my desk and rest her head on my keyboard, but it doesn't have anything to do with me. She'll do it even if I'm not in the room, leading me to believe she just likes it because it's warm.
Any self-respecting cat knows that the shelf alone would not confine them. My three hang out any old darn place they please EXCEPT my computer keyboard! (go figure out that one!) Kitchen tables, beds, chairs, rugs, and now even the console where I have my HD TV. The idea is nice, but I have thrown in the towel on this long ago.
OMG IT'S TEH KEYBOARD'S REVENGE!!
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/index.php?itemid=8879
lol this is funny, but I think it might be cheaper just to put a cat bed on your desk. and definitely right that the real reason is because cat wants your hands occupied by him/her and nothing else. and lol @ cat-like typing!
clearly the people who invented this do not have a cat.
*WANT* >:^}
I like how in the "before" picture the monitor shows repeated text as if kitteh's paw is holding down a key.
In the "after" pic it resumes normal english grammar structure. LOL!
my cat comes and sits behind my lcd monitor so I cant get at her to put her down off the desk. Then if I so much as look at her she comes out and cuddle attacks stomping all over my keyboard. Then if im playing World of Warcraft I have to explain to my friends why my character just auto ran into the big monster and killed everyone >.<
Charlie -- your cat's name is Leeeroy Jenkins?
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/10/31/leeeeeeeeeroy1/
:(
Gahahahahha!
Clearly the pad on the kitty caddy is made of prickly velcro, which would explain why 1)kitteh is staying on the tray and 2)why kitteh looks vaguely annoyed.