Cats affinity for jigsaw puzzles

[packman]

[Jamastiene]

1. I'm so glad I do jigsaw puzzles on the computer nowadays.

Cats also love newspapers, but only when you are trying to read them, lol.

Great thread. Thanks for it. These are hilarious.

[murielm99]

10. I've noticed that about cats and newspapers.

They also love to sit down in the middle of any board game you might be playing.

[Jamastiene]

13. Yep.

I have to tell my cats to move back when I'm doing woodworking. They want to "help."

I have taken to using hand tools in recent years, because I just don't want to take the chance of either hurting myself or them trying to pay attention to the board I am working on, them, and my own safety all at the same time. Hand tools make it so I can stop before things go too badly. They love to see what I am working on. I just made a latch hook kit pillowcase and they loved getting all involved every step of the way. They are going to love it when I get the second one done and the roof fixed so I can build the window seat and put the pillows there for them to have a nice soft, warm spot to lay while they watch wildlife out the window.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Scrabble seems to be a particular favorite of theirs. . .

. . .especially when the board is full of a complicated arrangement of words.






#newrostrong

[murielm99]

18. Yes.

Pawing the tiles around is such a good game.

[pazzyanne]

11. When I was still teaching, I would correct papers laying on the floor in front of the TV.

My cat always came from where ever she was hiding out to lay right in the middle of the one I was correcting. I believe cats have to be the center of attention no matter what. (PS I love my cats.)

[Jamastiene]

12. I love my cats too, but

cats do cat things that it takes us humans ages to figure out. I think they want the attention too. I think cats do have a streak in them too, that makes them want to be pesky just because they know they can get by with it with us.

[steventh]

2. Haha yup so true.

Cats. Gotta love 'em. Thanks for posting these fun photos!

[3catwoman3]

3. If there is a single page of paper on the kitchen counter, our cats will sit...

...on that rather than on the bare counter top. I know that sheet of paper does not offer any warmth or padding, so it can't possibly feel more comfy, but they do it every time.

The more layers the better, thought. A pile of freshly folded laundry is the best, especially if the top item happens to be black to best show the cat hair.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

4. K&R just 'cause I finished my 1st jigsaw puzzle in years, & my cat was right there w/me.

After I completed it, there was one piece missing - hummmmm.

[kimbutgar]

5. Last year I was working on a 1000 piece puzzle of Venice

Took me 5 months was 3/4 finished. Always covered it with a box when I left my house. One day running late I forgot to cover it. Came home and All the pieces were on the floor and my cat was lying on the pieces and playing with them.


I totally broke down in tears and for a couple of days couldn’t play or look at the cat.

Hubby wanted to start a new puzzle and we got out a card table and started it. Cat is too old to jump up on it!

[Maraya1969]

6. Maybe he didn't like all the attention it was being given. So he had to kill it!

[Rebl2]

17. Bingo!

[Lars39]

7. I'ts just a shredded cardboard box to them. :)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Cats will park themselves on anything you are paying attention to

that isn't them.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. We used to work jigsaw puzzles fairly often

until 5 kittens were born in our house.

Here are my thoughts on this subject:
1. It's yours
2. You are playing with it, therefore it is important
3. Cats want whatever is important
4. Small pieces are great toys
5. It comes in a box

[LudwigPastorius]

14. "Why are you wasting your time on this when you could be petting me?"

I like the Big Gurl calico in the last picture. She knows who's boss.

[Karadeniz]

15. Just one of their many talents!❤

[Permanut]

19. It has been said that the Earth can't be flat..

because if it was, cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now.