For mac owners with cats

[foxfirefey]

Cat Nip: A clever program to lock down your keyboard if your cat should just so happen to start playing on the keyboard

Comments

[ize]

Oooh, shiny!

I don't have a cat, but I do have a puppy who loves to walk around in my keyboard, so this will come in handy. Thank you!

[foxfirefey]

I wish they would find the feeling of keys underfoot more distasteful!

[baggyeyes]

I had an unfortunate experience where my cat (then a kitten) walked across the iMac's keyboard and re-named the hard drive, and the home folder, and somehow deleted the contents of my desktop.

10.2x. I'm not quite sure what version exactly, but I still haven't figured out how my cat did that.

[jenett]

My cat regularly manages to open folders buried two and three deep in applications that were not all that accessible to begin with (Finder is obviously running, but I rarely have actual folders open in it, for example) and then insert fascinating typing.

(I'm running 10.7, but giving CatNip a try based on comments that suggest it might work anyway. Generally, I resort to the physical solution of closing the laptop, but that's sort of a pain in the neck.)

[vanessagalore]

Yep, my cat deletes appointments regularly and changes system preferences. She also can play iTunes playlists and likes to google Tom Skeritt (I don't understand that one) (she has also deleted a bunch of playlists that I really needed and renamed my iTunes library). And, for a topper she can turn on the TV if the party really gets going. Her daughter watches serenely and doesn't get involved in the criminal mayhem.

I have tried a couple programs that locked the keyboard when you put the computer to sleep, but they suffered from human failure (I'd forget to put the computer to sleep) and they were a pain in the ass. I also changed my system alert sound to the most disturbing sound of cats fighting and yowling that I could find on the internet, but although it scared the bejeebus out of me, she was oblivious.

I will try this, thanks for posting it!