I have a cat named Shadow.  She's a Russian Blue.  She's my cat.

She sits and sleeps by my computer when I am flight simming.  She jumps up on the desk and with her cheek marks my stick, my throttle, my keyboard, my mouse, and my monitor.  She thinks they are also hers.  Then she naps between my keyboard and my monitor or sometimes behind my monitor.

Yesterday I was going to show my 4 year old great grandson how to fly.  As soon as he put his hand on the stick as I told him the cat went ballistic.  Using her head she pushed against the stick trying to force his hand off,  I wrapped my hand around his and Shadow still kept pushing against every move I made.

I got the plane flying with Johnny's hand under mine and we flew for a while...turning and banking and going nose up and nose down as I told Johnny what we were doing,

Then I picked up shadow and put her out of the room.  Meanwhile little Johnny spun in and crashed.

I'll probably have other sessions with Johnny as I introduce him to flight simming.  And no telling what version will be out when he gets his own computer and simulator.  And perhaps by then he will have a cat of his own to protect his controls.

Noel

My cat seems to think he owns my shoes. He sleeps on them. 😼

At night, when he wants to move from the coffee table to the sofa, he waits for me to place my hand between, like a platform, and then he uses it to step across. My pleasure, your majesty. 

Cats are awesome. 

 

Edited February 8, 20233 yr by martin-w

 

My cat hates computers, phones etc. Especially when I'm playing around with the ringtones on my phone.

But on hairy final approaches during flight simming, he does love to jump on the keyboard sometimes, raise the gear, flaps...extend the spoilers.

 

 

Edited February 10, 20233 yr by Antipodeslonghaul

One wonders if there's any statistical preference among simmers towards cats over dogs, or vice versa...

Nala

I may be an anomaly, but I am stoutly a dog person, but more specifically prefer miniature Doxies.

Cat guy here.

Had a 19 pound orange cat at one time. My wife and I had bought a condo and my father was doign some work for us while we were at work. I come home for lunch one day and the back door slider is open. Darn, dad left the door open. Gave him a call and told him. Said he had not been there today. OK.

Did I just walk into a burglury? I wait and listen for any noise upstairs. Nothing. Walk up the stairs slowly, starting to sweat. Checked the bathroomm and master closets, nothing. Guys musta left. Couldn't find anything disturbed or missing. OK.

About a week later I see Chelsea, the 19 pounder, walk over to the slider, get her claws between the frame and glass door, slide it open and walk right out.

 

42 minutes ago, newtie said:

Cat guy here.

Had a 19 pound orange cat at one time. My wife and I had bought a condo and my father was doign some work for us while we were at work. I come home for lunch one day and the back door slider is open. Darn, dad left the door open. Gave him a call and told him. Said he had not been there today. OK.

Did I just walk into a burglury? I wait and listen for any noise upstairs. Nothing. Walk up the stairs slowly, starting to sweat. Checked the bathroomm and master closets, nothing. Guys musta left. Couldn't find anything disturbed or missing. OK.

About a week later I see Chelsea, the 19 pounder, walk over to the slider, get her claws between the frame and glass door, slide it open and walk right out.

 

 

 

smart cat 🙂  although  my  cat  has  worked  out  on  opening  my bedroom  wardrobe doors she  jumps  up  with  2  paws  hangs  on,  and  with  her  back  legs  she  forces   one  door  open. Than  she  jumps  on the  top  shelves  she  uses  the  clothes that are  hanging for  purchase   to  jump up  to the top

5 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

 

 

My cat would do something like that.

I was shown, after 58 years, the true meaning of sharing a house & live with a cat, since the early days of August last year.

As I parked my car I looked at the nearby vehicle and saw what looked like a dead rat near one of it's wheels. Even took my car out and went finding another parking slot a few meters away. 

It turned out "Cagarini" was well alive, still with his eyes shut and, as estimated by the veterinary not more than 10 days. His mother must have dropped him while he was being carried.

He his now one of my (our) main sources of joy, lives with us in our small house, shares my rather short desktop flying time, doing pretty much what Noel describes in his OP. He actually sleeps with us, jumping to our bed in the night and staying there, in his niche, between the two of us, laying on a blanket 🙂

He often wakes me up with his nose, very carefully and only when I show signs of not being in deep sleep...

He arrived in the right spot of space-time in my (our) lives 🙂

Hi have now CAT flight rules credited in my sim pilot license :-), because as per my avatar pic, he insists in checking pretty much all of the procedures, and is specially fond of the Airbus cockpit!

Edited February 12, 20233 yr by cagarini

"My cat sleeps, eats, watches TV and is sarcastic about the shows" -Jon

20 hours ago, n4gix said:

I may be an anomaly, but I am stoutly a dog person, but more specifically prefer miniature Doxies.

 

That's perfectly fine... all animals are awesome and deserve our respect and kindness. 

15 hours ago, newtie said:

Chelsea, the 19 pounder

 

Yikes, that a big feline. My cat has put on some pounds, I admit. Guess he must be about 17 pounds. He tells me its muscle. 

Just now, martin-w said:

 

Yikes, that a big feline. My cat has put on some pounds, I admit. Guess he must be about 17 pounds. He tells me its muscle. 

Wow. My kitty is 9 lb, and I've been trying to get her to lose weight! 

10 hours ago, pete_auau said:

smart cat 🙂  although  my  cat  has  worked  out  on  opening  my bedroom  wardrobe doors she  jumps  up  with  2  paws  hangs  on,  and  with  her  back  legs  she  forces   one  door  open. Than  she  jumps  on the  top  shelves  she  uses  the  clothes that are  hanging for  purchase   to  jump up  to the top

 

Don't mean to upset canine lovers who think dogs are the smartest but I read a while back that despite cats having a somewhat smaller brain, they have a higher neurological density.

😽