Oh, COME ON.

[MsDevin92]

I was just going to write up a big review to go in the User Reviews section, when my cat stepped on the backspace button and made me lose the entire thing (because for some reason, this forum doesn't keep text if I refresh or backspace like on other websites...). I think she was mad that we were out of dry food, and I couldn't magically produce more out of the cabinet under the microwave, but I was LITERALLY on the last word of the document and now I feel just plain irritated, which is shocking considering that I'm practically a slave to my feline friends.

If you have cats or pets in general, have they ever done anything like this? >_>
If they haven't, I think you have some kind of angel cat, please send me its next virgin batch of messiah kitten babies.

 

[Souplex]

You could have just CTRLZ'd it.

 

[ElephantGuts]

That sucks. My cat knows to stay the hell away from my computer. Actually, it doesn't. It walks in front of the moniter, and sometimes across the keyboard. I try to stop it, but it's persistent.

 

[Ago Iterum]

I have a problem slightly similar.

I usually use my Laptop touch pad as the mouse, and to go back a page, you make a small drag motion to the left, at the top of the touch pad. Something that can easily be mistakenly done while moving the cursor.

You can probably see where this is going anyway. I've deleted hundreds of essays etc...

 

[jim_doki]

cats = evil

i lvoe them to death but they are clearly plotting the overthrow of humanity

 

[MsDevin92]

Suplex: It wouldn't work. I smashed the undo key in frustration, but seeing as how the Escapist is strange and new to my Sims-and-various-gaming-Wiki-based Internet history, I think I may have broke its brains or something.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

My dog, being the giant lumbering retard that she is, once got her dumb ass tangled in a bunch of cords near my computer, freaked out, and yanked everything out of the wall. This would not have been so bad had I not been playing Star Ocean: TtEoT at the time. I lost like two hours of playtime.

Sigh. Stupid dog.

 

[Death916]

my dog jumped on my keyboard on my laptop. and i no longer have an f key beacause of it

 

[Jimmyjames]

Yes. Believe it or not, my pet iguana has done almost the exact same thing when I was writing a term paper. I don't know what he did, but it closed the document without saving it. Fortunately I only lost about 15 minutes worth of work.

This is him, name's Fletch
second thoughts...removed picture.. sorry

 

[Vivaldi]

I dont have any pets but I baby-sat one for a while (it was a cat) and I now hate cats.

I have to hand write, in cursive ink, all of my assingments so I was just done with like 4 hours of hand cramping work when thed cat (think she was called Shadow) ran over and sat in front of me on my paper.

I looked at her adn she looked at me and then she procedded to sharpen her claws on my stack of papers, ruining them.

Never, EVER shall I look after one again.

 

[MsDevin92]

My dog, being the giant lumbering retard that she is, once got her dumb ass tangled in a bunch of cords near my computer, freaked out, and yanked everything out of the wall. This would not have been so bad had I not been playing Star Ocean: TtEoT at the time. I lost like two hours of playtime.

Sigh. Stupid dog.

You played Till the End of Time? O: <333
I love that game. x3

Back on topic, yes, I do think cats have a sort of world-conquering air about them...It's the face, they look naturally deceptive and smart and everything. Snakes are kind of creepy too, but I think all the biblical stories are missing a point of how they look scary, because a cat actually has facial changes when it hisses at you. Snakes...always look dead expression-wise.

 

[Baby Tea]

About 50 bucks and an injection will fix that problem right up for you.

Ha! But seriously, that sucks. I've actually done that to MYSELF before. Yeah...it was dumb. But my cat never liked being up by the computer desk, and my dog was way to big to even attempt it.

 

[delet]

Every now and then, my cat will lay on my lap while I'm playing on the computer... He likes to press the Space bar a lot... can really screw me over in the middle of a fire fight...

 

[reaper_2k9]

Yes in fact mine is playing with all of the cords going into to my tower...I'm going to slap the crap outta her...or maybe let her bite through one for the shock.

 

[josh797]

this is why you should write everything in word and then post it to the web with copy paste. that way it autosaves! :-D but i empathize, ive lost a lot of work forgetting to save and what not.

 

[Clairaudient]

Sounds like the kitty's out for blood.

There are some programs you can download that will record previous keystrokes. You can also write larger posts in something like MS Word and then transfer them when it's complete. (I do believe MSword has a periodical autosave built in).

 

[crimsondynamics]

My cats regularly vomit on my keyboard, mousepad, or mouse.

When it's raining they come in and get tracks all over the desk.

They've knocked over hundreds of CDs and DVDs that were neatly stacked so they could have the "top shelf" to lie down on.

Occasionally they will stain the LCD with cat litter dust hardened by the mix with water.

Just last week one of the cats (I don't know which one) must have used the keyboard as a springboard to jump onto a shelf, because when I used the keyboard the space bar was loose.

One of my cats had a nervous disorder of sorts: he would chew any loose cable he could see. Apart from the risk of electrocution, he would mess up some cables enough that the USB signal wouldn't reach the computer. I've lost a gamepad and a steering wheel to that neurotic cat.

I guess I am pretty tolerant of felines.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Sometimes my cats would bat at the cord of my PS2 controller. Not a problem now with the wireless controller for my Xbox, but I was scared awhile ago that one of my cats was going to jump up on the table with my Xbox while it was running and mess it up somehow. She really seemed to be considering it.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Yeah, I've found cats just HATE people concentrating on things, and is why they try to walk all over your keyboard, its a 'dont look at that look at meeee!' thing, I think, and the same reason they clamber all over a newspaper if you're reading it. (or is that just my one).

He used to even stand by the sink and paw at the plates during washing up, meaning I'd have to wash em again, grrr!

 

[Librarian Mike]

My cat actually closes my laptop while I'm using it. Apparently to her, it's her heating pad. What makes it really aggravating is that she looks at me like "do something, *****".


I love my cats.