Watching your favorite television show with a kitty or kitties by your side can be a fascinating experience, not to mention a show all by itself. The problem in my house is the large sofa upon which television viewers with both two and four legs sit. There is room for everything, feet, food, cats and the remote, which becomes a unique pawn in this annoying game of cat, mouse, and television.
I usually leave the remote on top of the large coffee tale in front of the television set. It is never an object of any interest to the cats until the precise moment I sit down and put on the television. Although my cats are sometimes content to just sit quietly by my side that usually doesn’t last very long. For some reason known only to them, walking over the remote, sitting on it, butting heads with it and shoving it off the table all become part of the “kitty watching television experience.”
I once had the scare of m life when the television burst on in the middle of the night. I suspected a noisy burglar, but the culprit was one of my kitties who whizzed past me in fright on the stairs about two seconds later. The intruder was none other than the remote, which I had left ton top of the television set before I went to bed. It was now on the floor. The cat had inadvertently pushed the “on” button with its paw in an attempt to experience whatever cats experience by doing such a thing. I was momentarily frightened out of my wits!
I might consider leaving the remote on a shelf or some place where the cats can’t get to it. The only problem with that is that I won’t be able to reach it either and if I want to change the channel, well…use your imagination. Maybe I will too. In the meantime, in between time, like the old song says, “ain’t we got fun?”