Pets and Writing from Home
This morning I woke to find cat puke in my slipper. Now, as I write this, there is a cat sleeping on my desk between me and my keyboard. These cats are all up in my grill all day–but it’s actually gotten better since I took a few steps to accommodate my cats in my work life:
1. Make a special sleeping place for your cats. I have a cat bed on my desk with a warm lamp pointed at it. Generally, they love this spot and it helps keep them from laying where one of them is right now.
2. Work when they sleep. My cats are indoor cats and they like to play. I schedule my working hours for hours when they are most consistently asleep. That way, I don’t hurt their quality of life by ignoring them when they want play.
3. Keep a regular feeding schedule. If they could, my cats would get me to feed them throughout the day. Instead, we have 2 feeding times and the cats can sense when they are upon us. They come and get me when these feeding times arrive and don’t usually bug me for food in between.
