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A breed apart
The Miscellany article Every writer needs a cat… (WM, April) made me smile: ‘…once alone with the cat in the room where you work… the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle under the desk lamp…’ Not in my house, they don’t! I have Siamese.
Once alone with these attention seeking missiles, expect chaos, interference and concentrationshattering activities.
I work with four felines and as soon as the laptop appears, it is of great interest and to be inspected, sniff ed, rubbed against and of course walked on. I don’t know about monkeys producing Shakespeare, but my lot regularly come up with immortal lines like nnnnnnnnnnnnjsxhcdivckjvfklvcocvokfr.
If the PC is holding my attention, hooking a picture off the wall, or swiping things off the mantelpiece restores the balance, transferring the human’s focus back to the feline.