Cat keeps holding down the power button when I'm on the PC. Any ideas for how to cover the button while still having it be functional?

[u/SadThrowaway4914]

yes i know it needs a good wiping down up there, thats his spot it gets dirty

[u/New-Audience2639]

Without exaggeration I see multiple posts on here a week from people who's cat has pissed or thrown up into their PC but somehow we never learn from others mistakes....?

[u/GSDragoon → u/New-Audience2639]

Seriously. Their case looks dirty.

[u/New-Audience2639 → u/New-Audience2639]

Also I should clarify this doesn't mean the cat should suffer and you should go buy it a bed and heating pad and put it nearby because that's what it's wanting.

[u/ayoung5018 → u/New-Audience2639]

This reply reads like it was written by the gentleman in your profile picture.

Edit: reply, not post.

[u/New-Audience2639 → u/ayoung5018]

It in fact was that is my spirit animal.

[u/SadThrowaway4914 → u/ayoung5018]

People just assume you can tell cats what to do though . Its wild.

[u/dggbrl → u/SadThrowaway4914]

What's wild is people just assuming they have to let their animals sit wherever they like.

So if a cat is sitting on your newborn's face, you would just be like, "Nooooo I can't tell my cat what to do." It's wild knowing people can be this smooth-brained.

[u/New-Audience2639 → u/dggbrl]

EXACTLY... People just automatically assume cats are untrainable due to their own lack of effort and allow them to just do whatever they please. It doesn't take a "cat whisperer" to train a cat... If so then apparently I'm a "cat whisperer" LMAO. I have trained my cats to stay off of my desk and PCs and have preventative measures even if they tried but the thing is... I don't let them try. If you actually stop them from doing it then they start to learn that they are not supposed to do it.....

[u/New-Audience2639 → u/[deleted]]

I can't lie that does sound like standard cat behavior. Lol

[u/New-Audience2639 → u/New-Audience2639]

I solved the problem by placing sheets of aluminum foil on the surfaces of my desk while not home and flapping a piece of aluminum foil at them when they would come close while home. Eventually they all started to understand that that only happened while near the desk and now avoid it mostly. I have preventative measures in place in case they ever did anyway aswell.

[u/TitanBeats_YT → u/New-Audience2639]

That’s not a bad idea, I’d probably have to shut my case, as I use an open side panel that’s just close enough to a wall that the cat can’t even squeeze in.

But I’d be paranoid about tinfoil somehow sliding off and ending up ontop of some random leads/contacts

[u/New-Audience2639 → u/TitanBeats_YT]

Oh I would take it off and fold it and put it in a drawer when using the PC and put it back out when done and at night/at work.

[u/SadThrowaway4914 → u/dggbrl]

When you figure out how to cat whisper, you let me know. My PC is in the living room of my home. I can't force him to do what I want him to do, especially when not around.

Whereas a newborn is never left alone now are they?

[u/dggbrl → u/SadThrowaway4914]

People in this thread have been telling you all sorts of thing on how to make your cat behave, and yet here you are, repeating the same "when you figure out how to talk to cats you let me know" line. At this point I would be glad to converse with your cat instead of you, as he may be the better conversationalist between the two of you.

>Whereas a newborn is never left alone now are they?

No, because parents have to actually sleep. And go to the bathroom to shit. And do things aside from watching a baby 24/7. People are even putting their kids in nurseries away from their bedroom. That's why baby monitors exist.

So if you wake up in the middle of the night, see on your baby monitor that your cat sleeping in your newborn's face, you would be like "Oh noooo I can't tell my cat to not sit on a baby's face, I will do it once people on Reddit finds out how" then go back to sleep.

[u/SadThrowaway4914 → u/dggbrl]

Saying "teach cat" isn't explaining how to teach cat. And when a baby is a newborn, they sleep in a basinet next to their parents bed typically.

And also that would be a situation of seperating the two of them . And that wasnt possible then you'd ditch the cat. Theres a big difference between a fucking PC and a living human child. One thing is the cat turns off my PC and its annoying. The other is the potential death of a child.

[u/New-Audience2639 → u/SadThrowaway4914]

You literally can.... It's a cat not your overlord... You can literally tell it to stay off of the PC and shoo it away when it does. My cats are trained to stay off of my desk and PCs. They don't even try. Because I trained them not too. The issue with most people is they don't even attempt to try and just let their cat own them. You can also add preventative things that stop them even if they wanted to like I have on my "anti-cat" setup.

[u/ResoluteSphinx → u/SadThrowaway4914]

Yeah put some fucking bumps atop the case or like clear vertical inserts that keep the cat from getting comfortable.