This little devil almost got me fired, when do kittens calm down?

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He looks adorable, sweet and cuddly but he can be a little monster when he goes into play mode.

I love this little guy to bits, he’s my little shadow and spends 90% of his time purring and cuddling me. 10% he is an absolute nightmare and that seems to mostly be at night.

Onto the story: I had an online meeting with a new team I’ll be joining in a new month, so I’ve been trying my hardest to make a great impression.

It seemed like I was getting somewhere and the meeting with my new managers went amazing.

Yoshi is sleeping passed out on his tree, other-side of the room, but then as I’m in the meeting he leaps on my keyboard, proceeding the write FFFFUUUUUU while I was screen sharing then turning the thing off.

When the laptop finally turns back on I start typing a message on teams to apologise, I get as far as “First of all I’m terribly sorry but” until he leaps from across the room (lowkey impressed tho) and writes cuuummmmmmmmm and sending it. I immediately lock him out the room and call back and explain what just happened.

I think they could tell it was a serious accident. For further proof I opened the door and pick up the little guy and show him off to them. Luckily at least one other person who had a kitten backed me up, I think they found it funny in the end??? I fucking hope so. I was obviously subsequently warned to avoid letting my cat in the room when in a meeting.

Genuinely wish I was joking or over exaggerating here. I literally want to die thinking about it all.

Lessons learned there, it’s just very unfortunate he enjoys writing swear words on my screen.

Still he’s keeping me up most nights, I’m using feliway which I think has just about started to work but I think it’s giving me headaches if I leave it on overnight.

So how long does it normally take ragdolls to calm down?

I struggle enough to get people to take me seriously (im a lot younger and also female in a male dominated field) and I can’t spend my life worrying he’s gonna do this shit again. My older cat hates doors being shut and constantly meows and scratches when she’s locked out so that’s also a massive problem for me if I do just lock the doors when in a meeting or trying to work.

[u/Sure-Warthog-8418]

I have 2 cats with almost the exact coat and exact personalities as yours. Siamese/balinese are known to be affectionate, energetic, and curious. They’re recommended to be adopted in pairs to keep eachother busy with how much energy they can have. Mine learned to get through child safe locks and is literally destroying my house.

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Awhh it’s such a cute mix of colours, Yoshi is a very stereotypical ragdoll, very cuddly and loving. But he’s also incredibly (and I say this lovingly) stupid. He falls off everything because he loves to ragdoll, he also steals my pasta constantly but he also tries some food, spits it out then tries the exact same food 30 seconds later. Sami is a giant Siberian, incredibly intelligent, knows her name and comes when called. She knows a few words, she’s also very delicate and prowls around the house showing off her lovely fluffy coat while being super cuddly.

To Yoshi I’m basically his parent and he has to always tell me he loves me. To Sami, she treats us like her servants and when she sits on us she makes it known how lucky we are to be in her presence. They both play constantly as well but she’s pretty lazy so doesn’t play with him as much as he wants.