My Cat Kept Crashing My Work Calls. My Husband Solved It Before I Did.

For three months, my cat sat directly on my keyboard during every single video call, and I could not figure out why. It wasn't random. Biscuit had a routine. The second my laptop camera light turned on, she'd appear from wherever she'd been napping, hop onto the desk, and plant herself squarely across my keyboard, tail swishing directly into frame. I'd nudge her off mid-sentence. She'd be back before I finished my next one. My coworkers thought it was adorable. I thought I was losing my mind, and slowly losing patience with a cat I adored.

I tried everything the internet told me to try. A separate cat bed on the floor (ignored). A blanket folded next to my laptop (ignored, she wanted to be on me, not near me). A second monitor stand she could perch on (she knocked it over twice). Nothing worked, because none of it solved the actual problem: she didn't want a nap spot. She wanted to be close to me, at exactly the height where I was sitting, for as long as I was working.

My husband was the one who finally put it together. He'd watched me apologize to a client for the fourth time in a week over a tail in my webcam, and that night he said, quietly, "What if she just had her own spot right there, at desk height, next to you? Not instead of you being near her. With you."

I didn't believe a hammock clamped to the edge of a desk was going to fix three months of chaos. But we ordered the Adjustable Cat Desk Bed anyway, clamped it to the corner of my desk that first weekend, and I genuinely didn't expect much.

Biscuit found it within an hour. She climbed in, turned around twice, and settled, right at my elbow, close enough to touch, completely out of frame. She's been sleeping there through every call since. I still reach over and rest a hand on her back mid-meeting, the way I always wanted to. She still gets to be near me. I just get my keyboard back.

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