I work at home, and when it’s time for me to do some writing, Twinkie the cat follows me into my office. Twinkie is not my first pet, so I know she wants to be with me while I make a living. So I put a blanket on the floor next to my desk. I open a window so she can sit and look outside. Still, somehow she has a big problem when I go into my office.
The minute I sit down, she immediately goes berserk. She starts screaming and running around the room. She tries to jump in my lap. She pokes her head between my legs while I’m trying to type and meows at the top of her lungs. She runs across the computer keyboard. She picks up pencils and my wooden ruler and chews them. She walks through my papers, making sure to knock them off my desk and side table. Then she rolls around in the piles she has made. She fights me when I try to pick up her acts of vandalism.
No matter how many times I work in my office, Twinkie acts like she just entered a foreign country. She runs around like she’s in a haunted house. Frustrated, I once tried to put her out, and closed the office door. She cried horribly on the other side. I could see her little paws under the door frantically trying to get the door open. It’s awful trying to work while your cat is screaming and crying to get into your office. Eventually it gets to me, and once she’s back in the office, the running around rampage begins again.
I have to figure out what is wrong with my office that makes her act so crazy. I spend more time picking up behind her than actually getting any work done. I think that maybe it’s something about all the attention I give to my work and not her.
If anyone has experienced this behavior and has some ideas on what I can do to calm her down, send me suggestions.
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