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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / December 2003Casey on my laptop
So, I am living with my parents right now, in a trailer across the driveway from the house.... Casey (my 9 1/2 month old mackerel tabby furbaby) spends the day in the house with Mom when I am at work, and then spends the nights with me in the trailer... I have a laptop, on a table beside my bed, and Casey has gotten into a habit of sitting on it....usually at 4am in the morning, so it beeps really loud and wakes me up...(he's lucky I love him so much or it would really piss me off) Wondering if anyone has any thoughts of how to break him of this habit, as a lot of the time I want to keep my laptop open so I can download stuff (closed it last night so I could get some sleep)..... A sharp NO isn't working, he just looks at me funny... works to get him to stop doing other stuff...but not this one... Obvoisly a water bottle isn't going to be an option, because of the said laptop... Anyway, any thoughts or ideas would be much appreciated... Thanks, Carrie Carrie, Sounds like he's getting on the laptop at 4am because it's warm. My laptop solution would be to look into the power management scheme (Mac? Win?) to see if it can run closed, then he could sit on top of it if he wants. My cat based solution would be to hide the laptop in a drawer. If you hide the laptop, this might mean you find him piled on your neck at 4am, which is likely less annoying than the beeping. Marla > So, I am living with my parents right now, in a trailer across the driveway > from the house.... [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thanks, > Carrie > Carrie, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Marla Hi Marla, Thanks for your reply... I already looked into the power management options, there's a way to set in XP (which is what I'm running), but, the laptop is a Toshiba, and they have their own proprietary power management and there's no way to make it not hibernate in there, and it won't let me get into the XP options, it just points me to the proprietary stuff... If you are downloading, put a box upside down over it or something or enclose it somewhere. Karen > So, I am living with my parents right now, in a trailer across the driveway > from the house.... [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thanks, > Carrie > If you are downloading, put a box upside down over it or something or > enclose it somewhere. > > Karen That's a thought.....hmmm...now to find an appropriate box....I'll give that one a try if I can find a box at home that will do the job..... >>If you are downloading, put a box upside down over it or something or >>enclose it somewhere. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > That's a thought.....hmmm...now to find an appropriate box....I'll give that > one a try if I can find a box at home that will do the job..... You might want to consider cutting small ventilation holes in the box and perhaps installing a cooling fan inside... but perhaps that is going a little far. ;-)  Signature"Its the bugs that keep it running." -Joe Canuck > >>If you are downloading, put a box upside down over it or something or > >>enclose it somewhere. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > "Its the bugs that keep it running." > -Joe Canuck Hi Joe, I'm not too worried about the vetilation. My vent on my laptop is on the bottom, so as long as I have it on a solid surface, the little rubber feet on the bottom keep it raised enough to vent itself.... and if I find a box big enough, it's probably going to be big enough to cover the whole little table that I'm using and leave some room for air to escape too.... > So, I am living with my parents right now, in a trailer across the driveway > from the house.... [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Thanks, > Carrie Options: 1) Keep laptop closed. 2) Place laptop in out of reach area. 3) Leave laptop open but place an empty cardboard box over it of an appropriate size. Signature"Its the bugs that keep it running." -Joe Canuck >1) Keep laptop closed. Many laptops go into hibernate mode when the lid is closed and I believe the PO said the laptop is downloading overnight. -mhd >>1) Keep laptop closed. > > Many laptops go into hibernate mode when the lid is closed and I > believe the PO said the laptop is downloading overnight. > > -mhd I think I was saying in a roundabout way to give up the massive downloading. :-) Signature"Its the bugs that keep it running." -Joe Canuck > >>1) Keep laptop closed. > > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > "Its the bugs that keep it running." > -Joe Canuck Who says it's "massive" downloading? :-P Just download things off Bit Torrent, TV episodes and stuff, but my connection is kind of slow in the trailer, as it's a wireless connection, and I'm about 100 ft. from the router, which is inside the house, so it has to go through an outside wall and whatnot to get to me.... anyway.....not that this is even relevant.. :) |
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