As some of you will already know, Devon Rex cats are amongst the brightest,
most curious and most social cats you can find. Whatever you do, they will
try to help you with the task the best they can, sorting your papers on the
desk, helping you to hide things dropped on the floor, testing the food
you're going to eat and so on.
Teti, my silver tabby prince, has taken this a step further. He has decided
to become a computer technician!
On weekdays, I have to go out some hours a day to get my two loved ones
something to eat, and some money to get that food. I guess it's called work.
What Teti uses this spare time for, I will show you...
One day I came home, and after having fed Teti and his mother, Tin?viel
(yes, it's a name from LOTR), I sat down to work on my PC. Teti loves this,
because then he can climb up on my shoulders, curl himself around my neck,
and have a good time watching me work. I like that, too, a purring heater on
my neck.
When he finally gets tired or bored from sitting up there, he jumps down,
usually on the keyboard. Most of the times this jump results in a
'asdfaf312432pjnklsa' or something in my document, but it doesn't matter.
Easilly fixed. But on this particular day, that didn't happen. No, the
screen turned black for a second, and when the picture came back it was
UPSIDE DOWN! When he jumped down, he had hit the key combination to rotate
the display 180 degrees. It would have been allright if I had known the
combination to rotate it back in place again, but I didn't...
I asked him, I begged him, I stood on my knees for him, to make him tell me
how he did that, but did he answer? Noooo.... Have you ever tried searching
Google for a solution for something when the display is turned upside down?
Don't try it, it's more than difficult. But finally, I managed to find a
place that guided me through the procedure of manipulating the display
driver to disable the 'rotate' function. It took me about 10 minutes,
though.
Now that I have learned how clever Teti is with my computer, I'm going to
teach him how to edit the web site I'm working on. FrontPage shouldn't be
too difficult for him to deal with, I guess! I may also be using him for
breaking passwords, it's just to let him stand on my shoulders and jump down
on the keyboard, and we're in, I guess!

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Sherry - 13 Oct 2004 03:47 GMT
>As some of you will already know, Devon Rex cats are amongst the brightest,
>most curious and most social cats you can find. Whatever you do, they will
>try to help you with the task the best they can, sorting your papers on the
>desk, helping you to hide things dropped on the floor, testing the food
>you're going to eat and so on.
My daughter's cat was benched next to a crew of Rex's at a cat show once. They
were just hysterical, and I just fell in love with them. They were like little
show-offs, little clowns. So active and curious!
Sherry
Debbie Wilson - 13 Oct 2004 09:53 GMT
Hans Schrøder <han-schr@online.no> wrote:
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> Easilly fixed. But on this particular day, that didn't happen. No, the
> screen turned black for a second, and when the picture came back it was
> UPSIDE DOWN! When he jumped down, he had hit the key combination to rotate
> the display 180 degrees. It would have been allright if I had known the
> combination to rotate it back in place again, but I didn't...
(snip)
LOL, a great story, Hans. I had a similar occurrence when one of mine
(less well-bred than a Rex, but no less helpful) jumped down onto the
keyboard and activated somehow a screen magnifying option. Not only did
it magnify the screen, but the screen moved in its entirety as you moved
the cursor. No doubt a very useful thing if you have restricted vision,
but like yours, not good for finding out how to deactivate it!! Every
time I moved the cursor, the menu bars & Dock would slide elusively out
of reach. Somehow I eventually Googled my way back to normality but I
still have no idea how he did it!!
Deb.

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Margaret Fine - 13 Oct 2004 16:51 GMT
> Hans Schrøder <han-schr@online.no> wrote:
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> Deb.
That is funny that you mention this Deb. Didn't even know this was a
function of the machine until yesterday Oliver went to the magnifer
TWICE. He was also huffy that I was using the computer instead of
petting him so he stepped on the keyboard and hiberanted it.

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CatNipped - 13 Oct 2004 19:50 GMT
> That is funny that you mention this Deb. Didn't even know this was a
> function of the machine until yesterday Oliver went to the magnifer TWICE.
> He was also huffy that I was using the computer instead of petting him so
> he stepped on the keyboard and hiberanted it.
Isn't it amazing the technical know-how they possess - much more than I'll
ever hope to have. It's scary!
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CatNipped
Helen Wheels - 13 Oct 2004 14:07 GMT
Hans Schrøder wrote:
> As some of you will already know, Devon Rex cats are amongst the brightest,
> most curious and most social cats you can find. Whatever you do, they will
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> breaking passwords, it's just to let him stand on my shoulders and jump down
> on the keyboard, and we're in, I guess!
LOL. That's called upside-downy monitor.
Marina - 14 Oct 2004 04:13 GMT
> LOL. That's called upside-downy monitor.
ROFL!

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CatNipped - 13 Oct 2004 19:49 GMT
> As some of you will already know, Devon Rex cats are amongst the
> brightest,
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> down
> on the keyboard, and we're in, I guess!
ROTFLMAOWTIME!!! Great story Hans. My Sammy once put my computer into
"sleep" mode and I didn't know how to get it out so I had to cold boot
(losing a long note I was working on for this group). The upside-downy
screen, though, what a hoot - he probably wanted to be able to read it when
he as doing upside-downy head!!
Hugs,
CatNipped
Susan M - 14 Oct 2004 07:18 GMT
> Now that I have learned how clever Teti is with my computer, I'm going to
> teach him how to edit the web site I'm working on. FrontPage shouldn't be
> too difficult for him to deal with, I guess! I may also be using him for
> breaking passwords, it's just to let him stand on my shoulders and jump down
> on the keyboard, and we're in, I guess!
Ah yes, he's taunting you with his brilliance. He won't possibly show his
brilliance all the time though 'cause he knows you'd try to put him to work.
Smart boy.
Susan M
Otis and Chester